Brides & Grooms Hope For Luck On 10-10-10 Wedding Day

It’s all about the perfect 10 for brides and grooms who’ve gone to great lengths to secure the most coveted date on the nuptial calendar this year.

Tying the knot on the tenth day of the tenth month of the millennium’s tenth year means plans must be made years in advance.

But it’s not all about superstition, some say.

“It was really a cool number, the way the 10-10-10 looks, having it on the invitations, having it on everything, and from what we’ve learned, having 1 and 0 means the beginning and the end,” said Caroline Dixon, 30, of Toronto. She is set to wed this Sunday.

Dixon and her fellow autumn brides are going wild for the date, marrying on a day numerologists call “magical” and Chinese wedding planners call “lucky.”

In Toronto, the city hall wedding chamber — normally closed on Sunday — had such a high demand for the day it decided to open in a different venue, across the street at a hotel.

By Thursday, 22 weddings had been booked.

The Vancouver Cultural Wedding Show saw a spike in brides scrambling for last-minute finds in late September for their Oct. 10 weddings.

Even registry offices in Shanghai are reportedly completely booked.

“People are weird with numbers,” laughed Dixon, who said she’s been surprised by the hoopla over the so-called fortuitous date.

Dixon and her fiancee, Luigi Morra, 33, got their dream date by accident, or by luck.

The two hairdressers had wanted to get married on Thanksgiving and only noticed the date after Dixon’s mother pointed out the intriguing numbers.

Soon, Dixon became “obsessed” with the day.

“We were looking on astrological things, and we started looking at the symbolism for 10,” she said, giggling.

When they were told that their hall had been double-booked for the day and Dixon would have to find another venue, she and her fiancee were still fixated on 10. After all, they got engaged after dating for 10 months.

“We can’t be like, ‘We’re getting married on 10-09-10,'” said Dixon. “It just doesn’t have the same ring to it.”

While the number is popular, Toronto numerologist Abella Arthur said the meaning of the number has more to do with perfection than love.

“It would be very much related to intense power, achievement-oriented couples,” said Arthur. “Couples very much about having perfection in their life.”

“Ten is related to Aries and Capricorn and it’s a very self-directed number. So it is really about their own independence,” she said, “This marriage is going to be a bit more of an independent marriage.”

But there is some whimsy to the number, Arthur revealed as she began singing the 1960s classic “Do You Believe in Magic.”

She said a 10-10-10 couple wants to create their own magic and destiny, unlike couples who married on 7-7-7. Brides became frantic over the July 7 date a few years ago because it was related to divine intervention and luck.

In Chinese tradition, 10 is also a noteworthy number.

Rhonda Lam, a wedding consultant with Devoted To You Inc., who specializes in Chinese weddings, said the day would certainly be the “perfect 10.”

“To us, it’s something as a whole. This is why most of the Chinese banquets have 10 courses and we have a table of 10,” said Lam.

“It’s kind of a lucky thing,” she said, adding that 8-8-8 and 9-9-9 had also been known as auspicious days.

For some, the significance of the number is all about the math.

“My family and I growing up have always been big fans of the number five, or anything divisible by five,” said Jason Giblen, 37, a self-professed “numbers guy,” whose original plan to marry in late October was moved up after his fiancee got pregnant. He’s now settled on 10-10-10.

Dixon said there were challenges to keeping her date. Photographers had been booked three or four years in advance, and one officiant told her a woman had already reserved the day even though she wasn’t engaged yet.

“That’s dedication,” laughed Dixon. “I wanted the date, but I was willing to find the guy first.”

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