A Rare Event, Indeed

People often ask us how we chose our company name. The short story: a wedding is a once-in-a-lifetime experience, and a rare and beautiful event both to host and to enjoy. Finding the great love of your life is a rare event as well, and planning weddings? The best un-job job ever. Likewise, blue moons are few and far between- and tonight one will shine for the first time in 20 years, festively marking New Year’s Eve 2009!

A full moon appears once a month, and there are 12 full moons a year. A blue moon is when the 13th full moon appears in a year, or if there are two full moons in a month. Rarely does the blue moon appear New Year’s Eve; the last on a New Year’s Eve was in 1990.

If you’re out and about toasting the town, you just might be able to catch a glimpse of the bluest and rarest little moon. Other fun ideas for tonight:

Hosting a party? Teach your guests to do the Charleston! Hire a local instructor and maybe he or she will throw in the shag as well.

Build an impossibly huge Champagne fountain? (Entertaining, to say the least.)

Find your inner play-ah?

Bail on the whole shebang, put your feet up, and watch the ball drop from the depths of your sofa (glass of Veuve in hand, of course):

Happy NYE 2009 from the BME team!