The wedding calendar
124 wedding seasons, lucky days, days when weddings are not held, courtship festivals and days of love, with this year's dates. Dates are worked out afresh every day; those marked "about" follow the moon or local calendars and can shift by a day.
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October 2026
about 8 Oct 2026Taian, the luckiest dayThe "great peace" day of the six-day rokuyo cycle, chosen for weddings and sold out first.
about 9 Oct 2026Son-eomneun-nal, days without evil spiritsThe days when mischievous spirits are said to be away: lunar days ending in 9 or 0, favoured for weddings and moving house.
10 Oct 202610/10, the perfect dateOctober 10: in Taiwan, Double Ten Day, a round number meaning "perfect", and a favourite date to marry.
about 10 Oct 2026The Chinese almanac and lucky wedding daysEach lunar month the almanac rates every day, and the family or a fortune teller checks it before fixing the wedding.
about 10 Oct 2026Ngày tốt, a good day in VietnamVietnamese families pick a ngay hoang dao, a lucky day, by the lunar calendar and the ages of the couple.February 2027
about 11 Feb 2027Vasant Panchami as a wedding dateThe fifth day of spring, one of the few dates families treat as clean for a wedding without checking the panchang.
22 Feb 20272/22 and other repeated datesDates like 2/22/22, 6/6, 7/7 and 8/8 are chosen for their pattern, easy to remember on every anniversary.
May 2027
August 2027
8 Aug 20278/8, the double luck dateAugust 8: in Chinese speech the number eight sounds like prosperity, so 8/8 is among the most sought-after wedding dates.
18 Aug 2027Tu B'Av as a wedding dateThe 15th of Av, in the old tradition a day of matchmaking and a favoured one for Jewish weddings in Israel.
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Traditional Vietnamese wedding: Gabrielle M. Vassal, Public domain, source
- Pyebaek: halfGoku, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Traditional Chinese marriage: Unknown author, Public domain, source
- Akshaya Tritiya Weddings: Fgndgndgnr, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Vasant Panchami Weddings: Nitin Das, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Autumn Wedding Peak: Edmund Blair Leighton, Public domain, source
- Taian Japan: Momotarou2012, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Double Ten Wedding Date: 總統府, CC BY 2.0, source
- Chinese Almanac Wedding Dates: Charles Chan, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Lag Baomer Weddings: Yoninah, CC BY-SA 3.0, source