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12-12-12 a reason for weddings, babies in Sonoma County

They were partial of a widespread rush to a altar, matrimony chapel or county clerk’s bureau on 12/12/12, a final date with triple relating numbers in this century.

In relating brownish-red cowboy boots with flower leis around their necks, a Santa Rosa integrate pronounced their “I do’s” during an eight-minute polite rite and afterwards kissed, capping a three-month courtship that began in Sep when they were introduced by friends.

“We’re not removing any younger,” pronounced Larsen, 72, a write tech for a city of San Francisco. “We wish to spend all a time together.”

Friends called theirs a “whirlwind” romance, though Bonserio, a 55-year-old dog trainer, had a elementary explanation.

“When we know, we know,” she said.

They were among a 32 couples married Wednesday in a solid tide of ceremonies conducted by a clerk’s office. A week earlier, only dual weddings were conducted and on Tuesday 3 couples pronounced their vows.

Wednesday’s rush was a spike in matrimony ceremonies during a clerk’s office, though distant subsequent a record of 63 marriages conducted Aug. 8, 2008 (8/8/08), pronounced Deva Proto, an researcher in a county Clerk-Recorder-Assessor’s Office.

That date was doubly portentous since 8 is a propitious series in Chinese enlightenment — a Summer Olympics in Beijing began on 8/8/08 during 8 mins and 8 seconds past 8 p.m. internal time — and Aug. 8 fell during a 6 months when same-sex matrimony was authorised in California.

David’s Bridal, a inhabitant spousal retailer, estimated 7,500 couples opposite a United States would tie a tangle Wednesday, a outrageous boost over final year, when only 485 pairs married on 12/12/11, a Huffington Post reported.

Wedding chapels in Las Vegas were awaiting a large day formed on 3 prior booms that occurred when a calendar aligned. County officials in Las Vegas released 4,333 matrimony licenses only before 7/7/07, 3,090 licenses before 10/10/10 and 3,342 before 11/11/11, a New York Times reported.

Diane and William Frenzel of Santa Rosa indifferent a midday matrimony container during a clerk’s bureau a month ago.

“We suspicion it was neat,” she said.

Diane, 46, and William, 52, met on Facebook a year and a half ago and “clicked right away,” she said.

They were observant their vows during 12 seconds after 12 noon and afterwards were streamer for a review among a North Coast redwoods for a integrate of days.

Bonserio pronounced they had hoped to start their rite during 12:12 p.m., though things ran a bit late. The integrate comparison their matrimony date formed on practicality, not numerology.

“We won’t forget a anniversary,” she said.

She and Larsen will spend a few days in San Francisco this week, afterwards devise to honeymoon in Italy in a spring.

Meanwhile, Erica Wetterstrom, 28, and Jeff Merbs, 32, of Gualala welcomed their second child — an 8-pound, 2-ounce child — during 12:41 p.m. Wednesday during Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital.

“The date is flattering cool,” Wetterstrom said, acknowledging she and her fiance some-more or reduction directed for a Dec. 12 arrival.

Doctors prompted labor Tuesday night for medical reasons, she said.

Memorial had one other birth Wednesday.

Four babies arrived Wednesday during Santa Rosa’s Sutter Medical Center, and a fifth was due by cesarean section, sanatorium mouthpiece Lisa Amador said.

Petaluma Valley Hospital reported dual births, with a third due before midnight.

The subsequent day with triple relating numbers is Jan. 1, 2101, a small some-more than 88 years away.

But those who wish to get hitched or give birth on a noted date could cruise subsequent Nov. 12, that is 11/12/13.

You can strech Staff Writer Guy Kovner during 521-5457 or guy.kovner@pressdemocrat.com.

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