Every tradition picks the day differently.
Some calendars settle a wedding date by arithmetic. Some need a priest. And a surprising number of the rules everyone repeats turn out, on checking, not to exist. These pages set out what each tradition actually says.
- Jewish Every Omer day falls on the same Hebrew date every year
- Orthodox Christian You cannot tell which calendar a parish uses from its country
- Catholic The Advent and Lent ban no longer exists
- Islamic Shawwal is recommended, not avoided
- Chinese The almanac still marks good wedding days inside Ghost Month
- Japanese Taian is the wedding day; Butsumetsu is the discount
- Korean 손없는날 is a moving-house tradition first
- Balinese One rule blocks a fifth of the calendar
- Coptic & Ethiopian Wednesdays and Fridays are fasting days all year
- Armenian Weddings are not celebrated on Wednesdays or Fridays
- Persian & Zoroastrian Roj Hormazd and roj Behram
How these pages are written
Every rule here was checked against a primary source — a code of canon law, a published fatwa, a Shulchan Arukh citation, an observatory standard — rather than against other wedding websites. Where sources genuinely disagree, the page says so instead of picking one. Where the answer depends on your family's custom, the page says that too.
That is not caution for its own sake. Several widely-repeated claims are simply wrong: the Catholic ban on Lenten weddings was repealed in 1983, the Islamic avoidance of Shawwal is rejected by mainstream scholarship as superstition, and the Orthodox Union's own magazine concludes there is no basis for the belief that Tuesday is a lucky Jewish wedding day. Each page carries the correction and the source.
None of this replaces asking your own rabbi, priest, imam, pemangku or astrologer. Where a tradition puts the decision in a person's hands rather than a calendar's, we say who, and we do not pretend a website can stand in for them.