At school we were always taught to strive to achieve the perfect mark of ten out of ten.
During the 1976 summer olympics in Montreal, Romanian Nadia Comaneci further elevated the world’s obsession with the number ten and made history by becoming the first ever gymnast to be awarded the perfect score of 10 in an olympic gymnast event. Recently while watching a TV series, Dancing with the Stars, it was very apparent that receiving the magic score of 10 from the judges was what the celebrities taking part strived for most.
Is it little wonder then that the date 10/10/10 holds so much appeal that world wide last weekend it became such a popular wedding date? From Las Vegas to Gretna Green in Scotland to Australia and Canada thousands of couples seeking the perfect wedding chose to marry on 10/10/10. Several news reports have predicted that in the United States alone more than 32000 weddings took place on this magical date. Amongst Asian couples in particular it held a lot of appeal as according to a Chinese wedding coordinator the number 10 means perfection in Chinese culture and apparently at Chinese weddings there are ten people at a table and ten courses served.
Even the controversial Rev. Sun Myung Moon got into the act in South Korea with a mass ceremony celebrating 1200 weddings and blessing 6000 couples who rededicated their marriages.
At another mass wedding of sixty couples in Beijing, the wedding ceremony for good measure, started at 10.10 in the morning.
Aside from the benefit of having a wedding date that will be hard to forget, the date is also significant to those who love binary code which is supposedly the answer to the universe!
Only two other dates remain this century in which the day, month and year will be the same: 11-11-2011 and 12-12-2012 – I wonder if they will have the same appeal as 10-10-10?
