This year July 7 weddings outshine traditional June nuptials

Published: 2007-07-11

PEKIN, Ill. (CNS) -- This summer the traditional June wedding was outshone by another date that new brides and grooms especially preferred for tying the knot: July 7. Many couples were attracted this year by the threefold alignment of "lucky number seven" on that date: 7/7/07. But Jamie Funderburk, now Mrs. Jamie O'Brien, had a much simpler reason for choosing July 7 for her nuptials at St. Joseph's Church in Pekin: The date was convenient and available. "Actually it was kind of funny, because all my life I've known girls who'd wanted to be married on July 7, 2007. Some women picked out that date when they were little girls," she told The Catholic Post, Peoria's diocesan newspaper, in an interview the day before her wedding. After Jamie and her fiance, Zachary O'Brien, formerly of Harvard, Ill., announced the date they planned for their wedding, many of her friends began telling her that they had always hoped they would get married then. "I just thought it would be easy to remember, that it was kind of a cute date," she said. "Little did I realize that the whole world would be interested in that date."

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