'...unless you want to get married on Septermper 11th'

I just don't believe that- for the record, the character was marrying and AMERICAN in AMERICA so i think it would matter in that situation

Additionally, i'm Australian and just couldn't get married on that date regardless of the fact I had no direct ties to the Twin Tower tragedy

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They like it better than no thing.

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Please don't generalise us all into that insensitive post! I'm British and I had no ties to anyone that died in 9/11 but I still sympathise with those who do! I wouldn't have my wedding on that day out of respect! Yes some of these posts may be right and in another 40 years or so that date won't really mean anything to a new generation as for them it'll just be another part of history but to those of us who were alive when it happened and witnessed it or heard about it as soon as it happened or saw the footage of it, it will still remain a very specific and horrific date!

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I do get the point you're trying to make, but to say it means next to nothing is a bit of an insult. I'm Australian, and have not even 1000000000 degrees of seperation to anyone or anything connected with the 9/11 attacks (unless you count my cousin who was living in Chicago at the time of the attacks). That doesn't mean though I pass it off as just another day because it wasn't.

The 9/11 attacks were awful, and thousands of innocent people lost their lives. However, I do agree that doesn't mean we should walk around like catatonic and depressed zombies EVERY TIME September 11th walked around.

To me, if someone chooses to get married on 9/11 it's no big deal. Yes, something terrible happened that day. I will never say that the date of 9/11/2001 was no big deal, because it was a HUGE deal and it was awful. But terrible things have happened on just about every day of the year, and if we all chose to avoid celebrating on a particular date because something horrible happened to also fall on that day we'd all be in a perpetual state of mourning. What about those people who's birthday is September 11th? Do we just ignore it and pretend it's on the 12th or the 10th? What about the kids that were actually born on September 11, 2001? Do we pity them and treat them like they're going to die everytime their birthday rolls around? I do believe people should be able to get married on 9/11 (or 11/9 for us Aussies) without their guests whispering it's in bad taste. I'm sure the couple getting married didn't pick 9/11 to try to "take away" from what happened in 2001, and they certainly weren't doing it in bad taste. If anything, that's just as horrible, accusing a couple trying to celebrate their love with thier family and friends of selecting a date in bad taste. It HAS been 13 years, we need to move on.

That being said, I can see why a couple would avoid 9/11, especially Americans and even MORE especially New Yorkers, because it is a day associated with such tragedy. Maybe in time the stigma will go away, and it won't be as big of a deal as it is now. But I understand for many people, those awful images of buildings callopsing is still fresh in their minds.

I realize that nothing can compare with the memories of September 11, but my wife and I planned our wedding on the last Saturday in May BECAUSE it would be part of a long weekend. Most people got off that following Monday, because of a holiday called Memorial Day, which was created specifically for the purpose of honoring people who died. We had no issues whatsoever with having our wedding on our weekend, in fact we considered its memorial nature to be a positive for our out-of-town guests, who would have an extra day for travel. Additionally, she insisted on including the name of one of her deceased male high school classmates, who had also been a parishioner at our church, in our official program alongside our deceased grandparents, SOLELY because he was one of the approximately 3,000 victims.

Hopefully, some day, 9/11 will carry the same weight to future couples as Memorial Day weekend did for us, and people will be able to go on living their lives.

Update: Also, my parents apparently did not have had much respect for the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., because they had the audacity to hold their wedding on the 2-year anniversary of his assassination. They apparently weren't affected by the event whatsoever, since they had their wedding on that day.

Agreed. I'm an American who lives on the left coast and it doesn't mean anything to us either. For people outside of NY, unless you had family or friends who lived in NY or you are a melodramatic phony your life really was not impacted by the events of the day other than having normal television programming interrupted for a week.

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