I had no idea that December 13, 2014 was an in-demand wedding date

In the search for a wedding venue, I’ve been calling some Accordion Bay places. I’ve got a a set of dates that will allow some can’t-miss guests to attend, and in my calling around, I’ve learned that you can’t book a venue on December 13, 2014 because it’s an incredibly popular date.

If you use the American month-day-year system for ordering numerical dates, December 13, 2014 becomes 12-13-14, which also happens to fall on a Saturday. It’s also the last time we’ll have another such “sequential” date for almost a century — the next one’s 01-02-03, or January 2, 2103, which also happens to be a Saturday. Given that we’re not going to see any memorable or “auspicious” dates that also happen to fall on a Saturday (the preferred day for weddings) for a good long time, there’s been a lot of demand for the December 13, 2013 wedding venues. Hotels know this, and have been capitalizing on the hype. Las Vegas, knowing their visitor’s obsession with “lucky numbers” has done the same by selling so-called “Traditional 12-13-14 wedding packages”.

I’d love to be able to say that thanks to my science and math background, I’m above all this “auspicious date” junk, but I’d really love to have my wedding on 3-14, a.k.a. “Pi Day”. Even better, Pi Day falls on a Saturday next year, and the next year’s date, 3-14-15 happens to correspond to the first 5 digits of pi (3.141592…)! GEEK SQUEEEE!