When it comes to picking a wedding date, it’s all in the numbers for some brides.
“The angel number,” said Tanisha Williams of Feb. 22 or 2/22. In numerology, an angel number is three or four of the same number such as 222 or 1111.
Not only was it a string of three of the same number, but Tuesday, was a rare palindrome of five numbers. And since it was on a Tuesday, many people called the date Twosday.
For Williams, who tied the knot with her boyfriend of six years Tuesday, 2-22-22 was the perfect date even if it was in the middle of the week.
“When I looked at it, I thought, ‘I’ve got to have that date,’” said Tanisha Williams, who wed Bryan Williams in the first wedding held in Chief Judge Carletta Sims Brown’s courtroom Tuesday. Brown is the chief judge of civil and magistrate court in Richmond County.
The Williams’ wedding had been in the works for almost two years, but the pandemic interrupted plans for a large event. Instead, they had a simple ceremony at the courthouse, which the bride said was beautiful.
Both Bryan and Tanisha Williams had thought about writing their own vows, but the ceremony Brown performed with the vows she read were just right, they said.
Brown said February was a month of love and thought that people might like to have a palindrome wedding date.
With all the twos in the date, there was no better day to “join two hearts in love,” she said.
Often people see the courthouse in a negative light, but it’s not always the case, Brown said.
“There’s so much more to judges than the courtroom,” she said.
Brown had hoped for more 2-22-22 weddings, but only one couple signed up to exchange vows Tuesday.
Other dates have been considered lucky numbers for weddings. On July 7, 2007, or 7/7/7, 38,000 people registered that as their wedding date – triple the number of couples getting married on any other day of the year, according to the wedding planning website The Knot.
Charmain Z. Brackett is the managing editor for The Augusta Press. Reach her at charmain@theaugustapress.com
