Champions league ban at wedding

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Were attending a wedding the day of the champion leagues final, now Liverpool have gotten to the final DH understandably wants to watch it. The majority of people attending are from Liverpool and the surrounding areas, my DH included. The couple getting married have now put out a notice saying that they have chosen not to screen the champions league, and they do not want anyone to ask for it to be put on, to leave and watch it or to be watching it on any devices and to please respect that this day is about them.

On one hand, I get it.. it's your wedding day. You want it to be about you. But DH and his brothers aren't willing to miss such a massive game and are now trying to work out a plan to be able to watch it and then return to the wedding after. It ended with DH and I having a bit of an argument because I think it's extremely rude to leave, watch the game and return. It's just been left with they will be watching and that's that, they think the bride and groom are being unreasonable to put a blanket ban on the whole thing and not just shove it on a tele in the bar. There's over 200 guests invited to the wedding.

Who's being unreasonable?

It must have been fun to be standing like a lemon for 90 mn, but as long as you had fun

What a shame for you you can’t understand I had a range of guests. I even, gasp, checked the scores myself at times.

I guess I am lucky to have the right guests as well

Arf.

some do, but the rudeness of the football fans on here is hilarious

Highly ironic given your last few posts.

NunoGoncalves
I wasn't rude, but if you felt I touch a nerve, I must have been right

this thread is gold material, Vicky Pollard and her family are still very much with us

I love MN.

this thread is gold material, Vicky Pollard and her family are still very much with us

Along with Hyancinth Bucket 🤣🤣

I love MN

Course you do, you get to furiously type at just how totes superior you are and hope you’ll get a little pat on the back.

I’m sorry you’re missing something that means you need validation. Are you ok?

I wasn't rude, but if you felt I touch a nerve

I have no strong feelings to either side of the argument. But you were and are being rude, at the same time as calling other people rude. Anyway I'm off out. Enjoy your Saturday afternoon/evening antagonising strangers on the internet.

ManchesterBorn

The anti football snobbery I'm referring to are the posts judging people who like football because they themselves dont "get it".

My brother got married on Grand National Day. Everyone including B&G watched and each family group had a £1 bet as a wedding favour. Made the whole day much more memorable.

The 'we are so much better than you because we are grown up enough to not care about football' people, I actually pity you. It's sad that you don't understand how amazing being a fan is.

I’d think anyone who wanted to put a football match before the wedding of one of their friends/relatives was absolutely bloody bonkers and self-centered

Why would anyone belittle people who have mainstream interests/obsessions they don’t share - and to the point of calling them dregs and dross. It’s completely unacceptable and makes those posters look very small and fearful of difference.
Football obsession is widespread amongst every conceivable type of person you could imagine.

My team are playing their final a few days before.

But if they were in the champions league final, I'd be leaving the wedding to watch it somewhere 🤷🏼‍♀️

@Lifecraft I couldn't have put it better.

I don't really understand all the comments about this meaning DH and his friends are now automatically chavs, yobs or man-children. They're attending an event from 11am onwards, the ceremony, the speeches, the meal.. the party starts at 6.30pm (after all the important stuff) and the match starts at 8pm. They obviously care that their mate is getting married and they're spending about 9 hours celebrating their big day and there's just a bit of conflict about having to miss such a big final. They definitely aren't horrible chavs or yobs, I said myself to DH that it's rude to leave and come back, it's not an ideal situation but there's no need for this character assassination on them for wanting to watch a game. It doesn't say anything about who they are as people or how much they value their friendship with the groom.

Most weddings I have been to didn't start dinner until 9 pm

What??? What are guests supposed to do between the ceremony and then? (Most of them down the chippie, I should think.) Where does that leave elderly guests, or those who have to leave early to be up for work the next morning, or those who have children who need to be fed earlier than 9pm?

Football is the national sport of this country, enjoyed by both men and women from all backgrounds. Anyone who says otherwise is a delusional twat.

Fully agree op. There’s been some awful rudeness on this thread. Almost ‘yob-like’ in its narrow minded stereotyping.

It doesn't say anything about who they are as people or how much they value their friendship with the groom.

It does though.

this thread is gold material, Vicky Pollard and her family are still very much with us

Why because shock horror some people actually enjoy football? The one thing I hate more than football is snobs who judge others for their interests and think they are being funny.

Yeah, it really does.

Because rightly or wrongly their friend has decided not to have this oh so important match as part of his wedding, and they won’t respect his wishes.

Just because watching men chase a ball for 90 minutes is important to them, doesn’t mean that’s a free pass to be a dick.

They can do what they want but it absolutely makes them bad friends.

LadyPenelope68
Football ahead of the wedding ceremony then I'd agree. Same for the wedding breakfast, main reception.

8pm when it's just a disco and DJ? I'm no football fan and would probably enjoy the social element of watching the match with others over a disco. It's 90 minutes and it can still be a pleasant social activity.

By 8pm at most weddings I've been to the 'oh my gosh hun you look so gorgeous, what a beautiful day, look at you so loved up, what a fabulous venue' gushing has dried up and it's people chilling and talking to friends in the bar area with some people hitting the dance floor. The fact the bride and groom specifically talk about how it's all about them makes them sound high maintenance and hard work.

Oh and I don't believe ManchesterBorn is from Manchester. If they were they'd get it.

Football is the national sport of this country, enjoyed by both men and women from all backgrounds. Anyone who says otherwise is a delusional twat

People of all backgrounds don’t tend to be as fanatical about it. That levels belongs to a specific background...

It really is rude of these guests, who had previously RSVP'd, to want to ditch the wedding just because they perceive that a better offer has come along later.

But they aren't ditching the wedding.
They will be there, at the most important part - the ceremony. Then they will be there for the photos. Then they will be there for the waiting around mingling. Then they will be there for the meal. then they will be there for the speeches. Then they will be there for the cake cutting.
Because of this ridiculous command" from the B&G, it will now happen that a lot of people will leave earlier in the evening than they otherwise might have, but they have still come to all the important parts of the day and not 'ditched' the wedding at all.

Honestly, why wouldn't you check if there were any big events scheduled for the day in advance.

Because nobody knew Liverpool were going to Be in the final (nor Spurs) until the final whistle of the 2nd legs of the semi finals, last week.