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It looks like we're going to be sharing our wedding anniversary with a bunch of other folks, according to today's New York Times:

CHRISTMAS. New Year’s Eve. Spring break. There are certain dates on the calendar when travelers know that hotel rooms in prime vacation spots will be nearly impossible to come by, even if they try to book months in advance.

This year, add another day to the list: Saturday, July 7.

That’s because that date — the almost numerically perfect 7/7/07 — is being sought after by couples around the country as the ideal day for a wedding. More than 31,000 couples have already signed up with theknot.com, a wedding-planning Web site, saying they plan to marry that day, a figure that is roughly triple the number for any other Saturday that month — and nearly 20,000 more than the number of couples who got married on the corresponding weekend a year earlier.

Fortunately, this increased demand on wedding services and locales this year shouldn't put too much of a crimp in our usual romantic anniversary extravaganzas (such as "sitting around the house" or "flying back from South Dakota").