9,000 Plan Olympic Weddings

Opening day is lucky date
By Peter Fearon,  Newser Staff
Posted Aug 1, 2008 2:30 AM CDT
9,000 Plan Olympic Weddings
A Chinese couple take wedding photos near hundreds of Chinese national flags displayed at a park in Beijing.    (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Thousands of Beijing couples plan to tie the knot on the opening day of the Olympic Games, reports USA Today. The all-eights date, 8/8/08, is considered lucky in China, which is why authorities chose that day for the start of the Olympiad. Now some 9,000 lovers hope to share the luck, while they celebrate the games—and wedded bliss. (More 2008 Beijing Olympics stories.)

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