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Sometimes it seems like non-Saturday weddings are taboo. I'm curious to see how many of you chose a day other than Saturday.
Does your date have a signifcance to you and/or your fiance?
Why did you choose that day if it's not on a Saturday?
How many of you guys got married on a holiday or holiday weekend?

Mr. Sushi and I are getting married on a Thursday. Since we're having a DW, and majority of our guests (15 out of 19) are OOT, we figured we could get married any day we want. I love that we're getting married on a weekday. We've been able to easily score all our favorite vendors.

Yay! Two Thursday weddings!

I love the symbolism of a wedding on the equinox ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autumnal_equinox ).  The two hemispheres are equal for that one day (technically there are 2 equinoxes per year - we're marrying on the autumnal one).  The equinox this year is on Sept 22, 2009.  Since the current dates on a calendar are really something that Julius Caesar invented (the original calendar being invented by the greeks - it used to be a Gregorian calendar, and that's one reason why we have leap years and leap seconds!), the actual "number" of the date is a little insignificant with respect to the solar year.  What I mean by this is that the autumnal equinox occurs on a different date each year (either the 21, 22, or 23) depending on the precession of the Earth's revolution around the sun.  There are 365.25 days in a year, and 360 degrees in a circle (thanks again, greeks! ;) ).  The Earth's orbit is nearly a perfect circle, so that means that in 360 days, we almost finish going around the circle!  --you need a few more days to complete the revolution, so the dates of the equinoxes and solstices change!  Last year it was on the 21, this year it will be on the 22, and I think next year it will be on the 23.  I'd love to have our wedding on the true equinox THIS year, but it's a Tuesday - we feel that would really be asking too much of our guests.  Monday is very close to the equinox, and about 30% of the time, the equinox IS on the 21st!  

Seeing as how my Mr. Rye and I will be traveling from the southern hemisphere (where it will be vernal equinox that date!) to the northern hemisphere to be with our friends and family on our wedding, I feel the symbolism of the equinox is particularly apropos.

PLUS, we're astronomers.  If we can get the chance to geek out about love and astronomy at the same time, I'd love it! :) 

We are getting married on a Sunday because the minimums etc. are lower.  Also, it's Labor Day weekend so it's still like a weekend night in many ways. 

We really wanted to get married on a Friday or Sunday to help us stay within our budget, but both of our families will be traveling from out of town to come to our Atlanta wedding, so we chose Saturday to make it easier on all of them. It's also nearly impossible to find a Catholic church around here that will hold a ceremony on any day but Saturday. We're just going to scale everything else down to try to stay in budget, instead. It's amazing what a difference there is in cost at most venues, though!

We're getting married on a Sunday because we're planning on a somewhat shorter time-schedule (6 months) and were limited to late July or August because of work & grad school.  And the venue we liked had Sundays available.  It made our search for a rabbi much easier as well.