Will 7/7/07 be lucky for today's brides and grooms?

There's a lot of people getting married today, not just because it's the first Saturday in July, but because the date is July 7, 2007, which translates to 7-7-07, or 07-07-07 if you want to get even more technical.

Other highlights of the "specialness" of today:

• In Singapore, the country decided to "solemnise" 777 weddings on this day, compared to the normal 100 or so weddings they do on an average Saturday in July.
  
  
• In Australia, the Queensland's Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages had to extend its operating hours to accommodate the number of couples wanting to take their wedding vows.
  
  
• Wedding Web site TheKnot.com reported at least 37,0000 weddings were registered for today.
  
  
• The most famous of the "7-7-7ers" has to be Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria, who tied the knot today to Tony Parker (basketball star) in France.

Many brides and grooms are assuming that the "lucky 7s" will bring additional luck to their marriage. While some luck is involved in any marriage, let's hope that many of these 7-7-07 couples prepared for their marriage as much as they prepared for their 7-7-07 wedding.

Speaking of marriage prep, did anyone go see "License to Wed" movie over the past week or so? I guess the movie is getting horrible reviews, but as I mentioned in an earlier post, at least the movie is raising awareness about marriage preparation. The Wall Street Journal wrote about the process of religious marriage preparation in this article (those of you who read that Busted Halo article about CEE might recognize the author of the WSJ piece).