08/08/08, It’s a Date…Not to Forget!
CAMBERLEY, England, August 1 /PRNewswire/ — Last year it was lucky number 7, now this year it seems to be lucky
number 8! According to registered weddings on online wedding guide
hitched.co.uk, the most popular Friday to tie the knot since Friday 30th
December 2005 will be Friday August 8th, 2008. Not only is the date quite
unforgettable, but the figure 8 also symbolizes prosperity in the Chinese
culture, and will also be the date in which the summer Olympics are to begin
in China, at 8:08:08pm no less.
Out of all brides and grooms-to-be who are registered to wed in August
2008, 57% have chosen Friday the 8th. In context, out of the 1570 registered
Friday weddings over the whole of 2008, 12.4% will be for the 8th of August.
Saturday weddings are 4 times more popular than Friday weddings for users
on hitched.co.uk, but on this particular weekend there are actually more
weddings registered for Friday August 8th, than there are for Saturday August
9th 2008.
- There are 8 furlongs in a mile
- Spiders and arachnids have 8 legs, and an octopus has 8 tentacles
- Hanukkah lasts for 8 days in the Jewish religion
- The Beatles had a #1 single titled ‘8 days a week’
- The symbol for infinity is a figure of 8, rotated 90 degrees
- The figure 8 is often referred to in ice skating
- 8 is the atomic number for Oxygen(O) on the periodic table
- In Asian cultures 8 sounds like the words wealth and prosper so
therefore it is considered to be a very lucky number
About hitched.co.uk
Hitched believes that your wedding should be the best and brightest day
of your life, and therefore presents the best and brightest number one
wedding website to cater for it.
Site features include:
- A comprehensive wedding planner for the bride and groom
- To-do list for every role in the wedding
- Tips and advice on everything, from writing the perfect speech to
organising a fantastic stag/hen party
- wedding shop
- Bride and grooms wear section
- Full directory with thousands of companies offering wedding services
- Directory with over 3500 wedding venues
- Discussion forum, plus many more useful wedding planning tools
- For further information, images or quotations please contact
Francesca Moore on 44(0)8700-112545 or francesca.moore@hitched.co.uk
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