Weddings During Football Season.

We had our wedding at a hotel venue n totally lucked out as the Packers schedule didn't affect us. Game weekends=hotel prices being 2-3x the cost for about a 30 mile radius.

As for guests...if the Packers were playing, I could totally see some guests skipping out to the bar for a bit...can't keep them for coming n going, I guess.

Foosball is the devil

I wen to a wedding in a college football town. It was game night. A bunch of the men found a TV, in another function room of the venue. They just visited the bar, during the commercials and went back into the TV room. The MOB was pissed (it was the POB money paying for the reception) and those guys just used it as an open bar. We could hear cheering and yelling from the TV room.

@Dreamer...that would suck for the couple :o

Luckily we don't live near Tuscaloosa or Auburn so hotel prices won't be affected in our small town. And I wouldn't care if people were checking their phones to keep an eye on the score if our wedding does end up being during the games. At all, I understand some people are crazy about it. But I'm not going to change to a winter, spring or summer wedding just because some people who didn't even go to the college think their lives revolve around it!

Yes! My FH wants to set up tv's at the venue... *eye roll

"If the game is more important than our wedding day, you will be missed on our big day."

Honestly, priorities. If you can't be an adult and put off watching other adult men run around a field for a day that is an issue. A wedding is a huge, life-changing event and sometimes a spiritual event, depending on the beliefs at play. Football is a game. I can't believe people had the audacity to even mention a stupid game to you.

If you put it in perspective with a blunt but honest statement they may re-evaluate how rude they are being by whining about a game that they are not personally playing in. Otherwise, don't apologize and just let them know they will be missed. You don't have to apologize or give excuses for your wedding date.

My FH told me at the beginning that we couldn't plan our wedding on Husker game day. So with that, problem solved.

But I definitely agree with it being annoying. I had a couple at my church get married on a game day, and there were people listening to the game with headphones during the ceremony..... not kidding

Our wedding is September 29th of next year and I've had a lot of people complain to me that it's "during bow hunting season." I simply laugh it off as it's a joke and tell them that I haven't finalized the guest list yet

@tatortot my FH suggested a projector playing it during the reception. Like I want grown men yelling at a screen during our first dance.

We got married on a Sunday a few weeks ago. My younger brother had the nerve to tell me the Cowboys were playing and he'd have to think about how to fit it all in! I gave him the big sister I'll kick your "arse" look - no words required - he made the right decision! LOL!

Hopefully they are just kidding, but 10/27 is their off week, if you can change by one week.

@karen k. I may just have to do that. Even FFIL and FMIL have complained about the date very time we see or talk to them.

I also had a couple people "joke" that my wedding was an inconvenience because it was during hunting season. Even my own brother. It was obnoxious. If people can't handle one day away from their hobby, they don't have to come.

H and his friends had their fantasy football draft the morning of the wedding. Granted, I met him in Vegas during a fantasy football draft through mutual friends (I.e.: I was with a girl meeting up with her guy friend who knew H). Only NFL preseason was on and the guys could care less about college football so we weren’t terribly affected but as tradition would have it, they usually get hammered during their drafts. I think a few of the guys had one beer but they all cooled it until the reception to drink. Granted, we planned the two events to coincide and everyone was on board. I really think if ONE college football game is more important than your once in a lifetime event, then that’s on them. I agree that you shouldn’t apologize or make any excuses why you chose the date you did. Just tell them they’ll be missed and if they make some smart ass remark about football, “well I only plan to do this once. Is there a game on next weekend?” H is a huge NFL fan. Literally. Sundays are football all day. His team and whoever else is playing. But when we have events to go to, he puts his big boy pants on, tapes his team, and everything is fine.

I'm getting married 2 weeks after the Super Bowl. Also on a Saturday so it wouldn't really have any impact on Sunday football. FH is going to Vegas for his bachelor party during Super Bowl weekend. He's a huge sports fan.

Honestly, and I do care about my guests, but I wouldn't give a flying fuck if a football game was on. It's a sporting event, not a life and death situation.

I will say thank God Penn State isn't in the Big 10 championship this year or I would have gotten SO much crap for it. FH's entire family is obsessed with PSU and half are also alumni. Even a former professor and author.

I told FH his dad and him could either leave early for the damn game and I'll cut the cake with my bridal party, or they can suck it up and let FH marry me. You can check the damn score when you go to the bathroom. I'm not rescheduling my wedding for your college football game.

And ESPECIALLY since your date would be a regular season game. Like eff off. They'll be back on the next week ffs.

This makes me so thankful that my FH and I don't watch sports because this idiocy has never come up in conversation. Our wedding is about us and celebrating with our family and friends. My father loves sports but I know the last thing he will be thinking about during my wedding is if the Yankees are playing because that's simply insanity. Don't invite guests who don't actually give a shit that you're getting married. If men wearing tight pants, chasing a ball around is what your guests would rather watch then good riddance to them.