Just don't show up on TV if you go to the game. A miraculous recovery.
Wedding in Iowa on Cy-Hawk Day. Who does that?
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Maybe it’s because I like weddings (and my experience with weddings is mostly cousins I’m close to/good friends) but I almost feel the opposite. It’s one of their biggest days vs. a football game. If I choose the football game over the wedding, the bride and groom are absolutely entitled to be disappointed/upset.
That doesn’t mean I always choose the wedding (although in my case it is mostly a travel thing), but I’m not going to act like the bride and groom shouldn’t be upset about it/should have chosen a different day
IMO, scheduling a wedding in Iowa on that day is basically saying, "Hey, we love you all, but we'd prefer a small turnout at our wedding, just send a gift and we are all good."
My brother was in a buddy's wedding years ago (late '70s-early '80s) on this weekend. One usher wore a hawk hat and carried a transistor radio with an ear piece listening to the game. When Iowa was ahead he wore it frontward and when ISU was ahead he put it on backward. The entire wedding party were stealing peeks at the usher and most of the congregation were looking back at him as well.
Love the red faced screaming Fran.Well apparently my cousin does.
The ceremony will go over the start and the reception will probably start during half time.
Do I put the game on my phone during the ceremony?
Bride and Groom are both Hawk fans, how do I make sure they never live this down the rest of their lives?
What's a good "excuse" I could use to get out of this until the game is over?... unless?
Love isn't real man, you know this by now...
But you're right it's two fold. I haven't seen majority of my family in some years and also she has a large contingent of friends that are single. But I'll be watching the TV until game is over
Depends, if it's early in the day when everybody is getting ready for an afternoon wedding it can be great. Everybody needs something to do instead of just standing around worrying about details. Same might be true if it starts a couple hours after the reception has already been going.
If it's right during the ceremony and beginning of dinner/recpetion it's not ideal.
Agree...The wedding party shouldn't be upset unless a guest didn't RSVP a no, but certainly should be disappointed certain people don't show.
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I’m not sure that’s accurate anymore (and I think it’s also skewed by people divorced multiple times).
Plus, how many games are going to end in losses?
Plus, how many games are going to end in losses?
And depending on the guest I think it would be fair to be upset. If a close friend/family member of mine chose a football game over my wedding I would be upset
I can honestly say I've never outright skipped a wedding because of a football game. But I remember a few years ago being at one during an Iowa State game and having about a dozen of us huddled around a phone at the reception, which I'd imagine the bride probably didn't love.
I can also remember the 2017 Oklahoma game having to be at a wedding later that day. I had the game on, not having any real faith it would run up against the wedding. I recall watching the end, throwing on a shirt and tie without showering and being way more drunk than I should have been at the actual ceremony.
In our family, we plan funerals around athletic events.
With all our great stranger advice so far, have you made a decision? Are you going or not? Clock is ticking. LOL.Well apparently my cousin does.
The ceremony will go over the start and the reception will probably start during half time.
Do I put the game on my phone during the ceremony?
Bride and Groom are both Hawk fans, how do I make sure they never live this down the rest of their lives?
What's a good "excuse" I could use to get out of this until the game is over?
Not always about the wins and losses. It's about everything that goes along with it. Only one team wins the natty, but we all set out secretly hoping for the perfect storm.
I have lots of cousins (probably 40ish) and I would bet if I did a census, more have been divorced than not.
I would add march too or at least make sure the wedding isn't on the first weekend of march madness.
I got married on CyHawk day.
No one cared. It wasn't even a consideration because it was 1994 and middle of the streak. Neither family was that big into it either. We did have it on at the reception, small TV in corner. I didn't really even watch.
Happily divorced now.
No one cared. It wasn't even a consideration because it was 1994 and middle of the streak. Neither family was that big into it either. We did have it on at the reception, small TV in corner. I didn't really even watch.
Happily divorced now.
