Picking the Perfect Date

I have just gotten engaged and now everyone wants to know when the wedding is!

Firstly, how to pick the perfect date?

I want to have enough time to plan, but on the other hand, I don’t want to wait too long since my flat will be ready next year end. I want a day and time of the year that allows all of my friends and family members to make it, but not one that will be too popular with other brides, or else the turnout for our wedding might be less than spectacular. Not to mention the higher rates.

We are currently looking at first half of 2012, preferably after Chinese New Year, on a weekend. The most common way to know whether a date is auspicious for wedding is to use Tong Shu, a Chinese almanac. By using Tong Shu one can find out which dates are good for wedding. Relying on Tong Shu for auspicious wedding dates has limitations. Firstly, it can only give auspicious dates for the current year. If we need auspicious dates beyond the current year, we would have to wait for the new Tong Shu to be out. Secondly, different Tong Shu by different authors and publishers may show different auspicious wedding dates. There is no way to know if a date is truly auspicious for wedding.

For our case, we are looking for auspicious wedding dates that are beyond the current year. To save the trouble of analyzing all the dates by ourselves, we had decided to source for Geomancy Master to fix all the auspicious dates for us, the date for holding dinner banquet, the dates and hours for delivery of betrothal gifts (過大禮), installing a bridal bed (安床), fetching of bride to groom's house (入門) and etc. They would have to use date selection techniques such as The 12 Day Officers Method, The 28 Constellation Method and Dong Gong Date Selection. Using date selection techniques, auspicious wedding dates can be identified for any year.

Some people might ask, 'why dont we choose a date for ourselves?'

Of course we love the idea of getting married on Valentine’s Day, or on the anniversary of the day we met or on one of our birthdays. However, according to Chinese metaphysics thinking, everyday is different in terms of the quality and type of cosmic energies. Not all days are suitable for marriage. Some days are good while others are bad.

The identifed auspicious wedding date has to be checked against the couple's bazi as well as the birth date of the parents. We are not being superstitous but having a wedding on an auspicious date is like choosing a good day to carry out an important task. It is believed that marriage on a good wedding date will have the support of good cosmic energies that are positive for marriage. This will bring about good blessing and good start to a marriage.

Do let me know if you have any reliable or professional Geomancy Master to introduce!