It’s still pretty early in the game (T-minus 523 days) but we decided it was about time to pick a random date to pursue with the church, reception and rehearsal-dinner people.

So, we went to Weather Underground’s History page and did some research. Three minutes (and one excel spreadsheet later) we had something that looked like this:

22-Sep 29-Sep 6-Oct 13-Oct
Mean Temp. 65 °F 62 °F 59 °F 56 °F
Average High 77 °F 74 °F 71 °F 69 °F
Average Low 53 °F 50 °F 46 °F 43 °F
Record High 94 °F (1980) 85 °F (1986) 85 °F (1997) 84 °F (1998)
Record Low 38 °F (1997) 34 °F (1978) 28 °F (1968) 30 °F (1985)
Avg. Rainfall 0.13 in 0.12 in 0.11 in 0.11 in
Record Rainfall 1.57 in (1982) 2.23 in (1963) 0.68 in (1972) 0.85 in (1983)

After much deliberation (three, maybe four minutes) we decided to target October 6, 2007. Not too cold, not too hot … and it didn’t hijack one of our attendants (Melissa Merens) 30th birthday (missed it by a week). It’s a shame, she would have gotten one heck of a party …