While couples across the nation are racing to plan weddings for Saturday, in Butler County the numbers don’t add up to much of anything.

Saturday, Dec. 13, 2014, or 12/13/14, is set to be the last number-sequential date until January 2, 2034.

Wanting a “cool” wedding date — and not wanting to wait another 20 years to get it — thousands of couples are planning to get hitched on this numerically special day.

Some have planned this day a year and a half in advance.

According to Kate Knecht, wedding specialist with Pittsburgh Marriott North, 100 Cranberry Woods Drive in Cranberry Township, one bride signed the contract for her 250-person Saturday evening wedding reception 18 months ago.

“She was pretty serious abut the date because of the number,” said Knecht.

Nor was she the only one.

“I had about 10 to 15 people inquire about that date,” Knecht said.

“It was a highly requested date,” said Whitney Camp, event coordinator at the Days Inn, 139 Pittsburgh Road, which will host a 250-person evening wedding reception in its Crystal Room Saturday.

“They booked more than a year in advance,” said Camp. “There was a lot of interest in both rooms, but the Terrace Room was already booked for a Christmas party.”

“People are always looking for special dates. If it falls on a weekend, they are more inclined to book,” she said.

Camp doesn’t attribute the interest in numerically significant dates to any mystic inclinations.

“They’re easier to remember as an anniversary date,” Camp said.

“Some people believe in the power of numbers, that certain numbers are more lucky than others,” said psychologist Donna Korczyk of Cranberry Township.

But she doesn’t think that is the reason for the popularity of 12/13/14 as a wedding date.

“I think people just think it is cool,” said Korczyk. “I think it is a way to mark their wedding day as more special. There aren’t any lucky connotations like 7/7/7. I don’t think 12/13/14 has anything mystical about it.”

Judy Moser, Butler County register of wills & clerk of orphans’ court, whose office issues wedding licenses, also noticed a slight uptick in people planning to marry Saturday but is reluctant to credit the numbers.

“We were looking for it and we didn’t see a whole lot,” said Moser. “We have about 10 marriages that had that weekend date.”

“We do ask the date of the wedding,” said Moser because marriage licenses are valid for only 60 days from the date of issuance.

“They did not say they picked Saturday because of the numbers,” she said.

“We had more weddings in years past when we had consecutive numbers like 12/12/12,” Moser said.

She noted while September/October weddings remain popular and plentiful, December is becoming a big month for nuptials.

“It’s because of that winter wedding theme,” Moser said.

That may be, but neither a winter theme nor consecutive numbers have increased the number of bookings for wedding disc jockeys, said Andrew Walsh, president of Wedding Solutions of Butler.

Walsh, who employs a six DJs for weddings and corporate events, said while he had a half dozen inquiries about hiring a DJ for a reception Saturday, he had only one booked.

“They don’t seem to pay much attention to the numbers from what I’ve seen. The wedding Saturday is not a numbers thing,” Walsh said.