英国新人争相在10年10月10日结婚

Brides and grooms¹ across the UK are staging a romantic rush to tie the knot on the most memorable² date of the year.....10-10-10.

英国各地的新娘和新郎们争相在今年最难忘的日子——2010年10月10日——喜结连理。

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Name the date: Couples the world over are rushing to marry on the triple digit date 10-10-10. There are only 12 such dates every 1,000 years.

All around the world, the attraction of saying 'I do' on an unforgettable date has sparked a massive rush by couples to organise⁴ their big day for the 10th day of the 10th month of the 10th year of the century.

More than 31,000 romantic couples are to get hitched⁵（结婚） this Sunday as the unique date proves to be the hottest day for a wedding this year.

Registry offices and churches have been booked up for months. Manchester's 163-year-old register office is opening on a Sunday for only the third time in its history so that six couples can get hitched.

And at Gretna Green, Scotland's famous wedding capital, a total of 38 weddings are due to take place compared to the average 10 for a typical Sunday in October.

In Nottinghamshire, seven couples will be saying their vows⁶ in a series of Las Vegas-style ceremonies at their local pub.

According to Brides magazine, at least 31,050 couples will be getting married this Sunday - almost twice the number of weddings on any other day during the month, and 10 times as many on a ‘normal’ Sunday.

The dash to mark the special day with a wedding is not confined to（限制，局限于） the UK.

Thousands of couples from Las Vegas to Singapore are also joining in the celebration of the auspicious⁷（吉利的） date. In Singapore, a record 774 couples are planning to marry, compared to 70 on a normal Sunday.

Benefitting from the phenomenon that occurs only 12 times every 1,000 years, are hotels, whose ballroom⁸（舞厅） schedules and honeymoon⁹ suite¹⁰ reservations are booked up, as well as airlines, whose passenger seats will be full of newly-married couples heading off to their honeymoon destinations.

The next most favoured wedding dates are 11-11-11 and 12-12-12, and after those dates any triple digit dates will not happen again until the year 3001.