I just got home from the wedding of a very good friend of mine here in Nashville and I feel that it is important to make this statement while it is still fresh in my mind.
When scheduling a wedding, always opt for sometime other than the fall. There are no good weekends for fall weddings. Saturday is College Football day and Sunday is NFL day. You run the risk of either not having a good turnout or having a very surly turnout of people trying to get score updates during the reception.
My friend that was getting married was a fellow graduate of Texas A&M and has been very intent on watching football games this fall but when it came time to schedule his wedding, he and his fiance (now wife) chose this day. They had their reasons and they were fairly sound, but it could have been a catastrophe.
As it turned out, the Texas A&M vs. Texas Tech game was played between 2:30 and 6:30 pm and the wedding didn't start until 7:30 pm. I was able to watch the game at a local sports bar, briefly bask in victory, run home, put on my suit, and book it to the wedding. Had any of the circumstances been different, I would have missed out on a huge emotional victory for the Aggies or a very beautiful wedding ceremony and reception.
This time everything worked but what about next time? It is for this reason that I vow here and now not to plan my wedding for the fall.
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The flip side of Fall weddings is you are stuck with a fall anniversary for the rest of your life. So, like ten years down the line, A&M is playing OU for what could be the conference championship, you're going right? No, it's your anniversary and your wife doesn't like football as much as you and wants to go to a fancy dinner and a place like the Opera where they put the words up on those little screens, but not the scores. You'd think they could do that during the intermissions, right?, I mean they have the technology, why not use it, it is just sitting there telling you to turn your phone off, but you can't because that is how you are getting your score updates, from your buddies that are text messaging you from the bar, except now they are getting drunk and forgetting to send the score, and when they do remember they are sending you dirty sex messages knowing it is your anniversary, and they think it is sooo funny, but you just want the score, and why did we get married in October again?
You're right, Fall Weddings SUCK!
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