December 21

Today is not December 21. Today is December 30, which is an unspectacular and unimportant nine days after December 21, 2010, and 357 days before December 21, 2011. And December 21, 2011, is the day I'm getting married.

It's a Wednesday.

The date isn't even firmly set yet (we have booked neither a church for the wedding nor a hall for the celebrating), but already, I've gotten many, many questions about why we picked Wednesday, December 21, 2011. Several people have tried to convince me to choose other days: December 22, for example, or any time in June 2012. But we are sticking the 21st of December, for these two simple reasons:

1. It's 12/21, which is a number palindrome.
2. The full date is 122111, and if you've ever seen the movie Clue with Tim Curry, there's a scene where they discuss how many shots have fired out of a gun, and they go "1 plus 2 plus 2 plus 1 plus 1 plus 1."

And as if those two reasons weren't enough, there are several more REAL reasons!

We want to get married in December. I don't want a summer wedding, so that left out April-August. Robert will still be in school, which left out September, October, November, January, February, and most of March. And we didn't want to wait until March.

We originally planned for Saturday, December 17, but many of the members of our wedding party (Robert included) have finals until December 16, so that wasn't going to be fun. Robert nixed a Sunday wedding, which I supported, and then the next two weekends are Christmas and New Year's.

So the week of December 19 it was! We chose December 21 because we wanted it to be close enough to Christmas that people who are coming to Kansas City for the holiday anyway might be able to extend their stay a bit, but far enough away from Christmas that people who don't come to KC for the holiday don't miss their Christmases back home.

We realize some people may not be able to come because it's a Wednesday. We'll miss you very much, and hope we can celebrate with you another time!

There you have it. You are informally invited to a Wednesday wedding in December. I hope you can make it, but if not, send your love and we'll send ours right back.