The One Bad Thing About Our Fall Wedding…

The One Bad Thing About Our Fall Wedding…

April 14th, 2009 @ 2:04 pm by Mrs. Labrador
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… is that there’s a UGA football game on the same day. When Mr. Lab and I picked out our date—before we even got engaged—it was originally a bye weekend. Mr. Lab and I are HUGE college football fans, so I didn’t want my dream of an autumn wedding to conflict with a UGA game. But since picking the date, the university added another game to the schedule.

What’s worse is that it’s a home game in Athens, where a handful of our guests (and we) are living now. I’m hoping people will be okay with missing this game. I’m guessing it’ll be a 12:30 PM kickoff with an easy win (at least on paper), so Dawg fans on our guest list will be able to watch the entire game—if aired on a network in Savannah—before the wedding even begins. I’m looking into getting a TV in the reception area somewhere so people (including me!) can stay up-to-date with other big games that day. I have to find out if they already have cable hookups to do this. I feel like I’ll be like the guys in those Verizon V-Cast commercials who are checking score updates during a wedding and honeymoon. I know Mr. Lab and I both will ask for updates at least a couple times during the reception from people with iPhones!

Are any big events (sporting, or otherwise) clashing with your wedding date?

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66 Responses to “The One Bad Thing About Our Fall Wedding…”

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Mrs. DG (message) 8,491 posts, Bee Keeper

My friends scheduled their wedding during pro football playoffs this year. I saw several people streaming the game during and after the ceremony. It was kind of funny and kind of sad…

4/14/09 @ 2:06 pm (reply)

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Miss Bruschetta (message) 5,565 posts, Bee Keeper

BIL Bruschetta’s a big Eagles fan, and he and Sister Bruschetta set their date before the new schedule was out — only to have a football game fall on their wedding day!

After the reception, a bunch of friends and bridal party members headed over to a nearby Dave and Buster’s to watch the game and hang out…and the day before, Swoop (the Eagles mascot) made an appearance at their rehearsal dinner!

4/14/09 @ 2:07 pm (reply)

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Gerbera (message) 4,481 posts, Honey bee

ahahahaha. Miss Lab.
Too funny! If anything it will make for some great photo ops.
I mentioned it to the FI and he said oh no worries, it’s just preseason. Ha! We’ll see about that!

4/14/09 @ 2:09 pm (reply)

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Miss Beagle (message) 1,380 posts, Bumble bee

We sheduled our wedding around the Longhorn football schedule. (I especially wanted to avoid a scheduling conflict with the OU game, any home game, & ACL Fest… traffic is horrible during home games).

4/14/09 @ 2:10 pm (reply)

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august15bride (message) 1,667 posts, Bumble bee

Oh no!! I wasn’t allowed to schedule our wedding during football season for this exact reason - which is why we are getting married in AUGUST in FLORIDA!

4/14/09 @ 2:14 pm (reply)

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monitajb (message) 2,217 posts, Buzzing bee

I’m so glad you posted this, I completely understand.

My little dilemma is that I plan on hosting a Sunday brunch for my weekend wedding. I am a huge Green Bay Packers fan (as in, I watch every game, know all of the players, and balled my eyes out in front of a boss when I heard about our QB going to another team). Most games are at 1 pm ET, or 10 am PT for me, on the West Coast. Unless there is a change, I’m seriously planning on just paying to listen over internet radio during the brunch. At least football is the kind of game you can still talk.

The schedule isn’t out yet, so I’m praying to the pig skin gods that we have a bye or a night match.

4/14/09 @ 2:17 pm (reply)

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Erindesmar (message) 2,180 posts, Buzzing bee

Ours could POSSIBLY conflict with baseball playoffs/world series. Funny, we are HUGE red sox fans and the thought of our wedding conflicting with a big game did not even occur to us when scheduling our wedding!

I have been to weddings where I have snuck out to the bar area to check a score…as long as people don’t completely bail on our party, I’m fine with it.

4/14/09 @ 2:18 pm (reply)

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nada122 (message) 151 posts, Blushing bee

oh man! no matter how hard you try, right? Our honeymoon fell right during the time of the bcs game this year — gators vs. oklahoma!! luckily, we ran into (small world!) a couple who were gator alum on their honeymoon too so we listened to the game podcast on their laptop!

4/14/09 @ 2:20 pm (reply)

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Heather12457 (message) 25 posts, Newbee

May 16 wedding date = no conflicts with College Football. Coincidence, I think not

4/14/09 @ 2:23 pm (reply)

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bree72 (message) 2,086 posts, Buzzing bee

We didn’t get married in the fall for this very reason! I attended a wedding last year during the FL-GA game and it did kind of cause trouble. I know as soon as the ceremony was over, someone found a tv and brought it into the reception. I think 90% of the men and about 50% of the women were in front of the tv…including the groom. The bride and her sisters danced by themselves. Of course, that is a huge game, so it is a lot different than if FL was playing Citadel, for example. I think you’re safe if it is a crappy game.

4/14/09 @ 2:23 pm (reply)

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Heather12457 (message) 25 posts, Newbee

As a side note, May 16 = several conflicts with High School graduations, and many of our guests can’t make our wedding. We didn’t even realize it was graduation time when we set the date! Can’t win them all I guess…

4/14/09 @ 2:24 pm (reply)

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morvaal

My friend just sent out her save the dates and its on the same day LSU/ Florida (huge game!). The wedding is at the exact same time as the game. At least your game will be earlier. Also, games happen every year, your wedding is a once in a lifetime event. I’m sure your guests will be there supporting you and sharing in your happiness (no matter what the outcome of the game is)

4/14/09 @ 2:25 pm (reply)

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bree72 (message) 2,086 posts, Buzzing bee

@ nada122…we were on our honeymoon during the BCS game this year, too! And here we had scheduled the wedding around football season! Luckily the cruise ship dedicated a whole club/bar to the game and we got to watch it with about 300 other people.

4/14/09 @ 2:25 pm (reply)

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Gerbera (message) 4,481 posts, Honey bee

Hm. nada122 you just reminded me. We’ll most likely be on honeymoon and miss probably 1 or 2 home games. oh well. Can’t win everything. =P

4/14/09 @ 2:25 pm (reply)

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GwenMarieDC (message) 111 posts, Blushing bee

We will likely schedule around a Hokie by week OR plan to a group viewing arranged into our wedding weekend! The man’s friends are seriously into Hokie football!

4/14/09 @ 2:27 pm (reply)

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ugakerri (message) 3 posts, Wannabee

I’m assuming you’re talking about the Vandy game?! Just turn the whole pre-wedding into a tailgate! I’m a big Dawg fan too & thought that if I ever had to have a fall wedding that is what I’d do. Just make sure there is beer, a big screen that gets LF/JP/CSS and everyone will still be happy!

4/14/09 @ 2:27 pm (reply)

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lilmisssha (message) 124 posts, Blushing bee

Awh! We’re big Texas Longhorns fans. When we got engaged, the one thing FI said was that he didn’t want the wedding to be during UT’s football season!

4/14/09 @ 2:27 pm (reply)

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Brittany

We are huge UGA football fans too, and got married in the middle of bowl season. Fortunately, GA didn’t end up in a bowl game the day of our wedding, but it made me super nervous up until the line up was announced.

As it was, GA’s bowl game fell during our honeymoon, so we spent a full evening in beautiful Jamaica inside watching football. I didn’t mind at all, but I regularly remind my husband that I let him watch football on our honeymoon, so he owes me one for the rest of our lives!

4/14/09 @ 2:29 pm (reply)

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TheDivineMissE (message) 394 posts, Helper bee

After reading your post I thought I’d better check… sure enough the Ducks play Washington that day. It’s an away game, but still. I just expressed my concern to a co-worker who let me know right away she wouldn’t be able to attend the wedding due to the game. I wonder if she’s joking…

4/14/09 @ 2:38 pm (reply)

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ggsb (message) 1,245 posts, Bumble bee

We thought about a fall wedding for about 30 minutes. That was the amount of time it took us to realize that between Auburn & Texas games there were no “good” weekends.

I have friends who married the weekend of the AU/UGA game, it was horrible. We were all glued to the TV in the hotel bar…and I think it hurt the bride’s feelings quite a bit (she’s not a sports fan)

4/14/09 @ 2:38 pm (reply)

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