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?

Well that’s a feetie stampy post iced gem.
Here’s the thing most weddings are dull,formulaic, with bland over priced food
The footy will be an uplifting,welcome interlude from the self absorbed B&G

I’m not a football fan but I think the B&G should allow a small screen at the venue.

If it was 3pm kick off it would be completely different but as it’s 8pm then I really don’t see the harm.

It’s the time when guests float around, have a bit of a mingle, a dance, sit on different tables talking to other guests.

I’m not the couple who’ve paid for the wedding & venue though. Can imagine it must be a pretty hard decision but one they feel they had to make. They have given guests the option though, so it’s up to them.

Bloody hard either way.

@6oodfella you're one patronising muppet!!

Weddings aren’t once in a lifetime though, are they? They’re all the bloody time. They’re not even usually once in a lifetime for the B&G, let alone the guests 😆

@6oodfella Wtf!! I'm a massive fan and live in football tops, fuck off if you think we know nothing about football

Some of these comments are disgusting! I hope your team loses!

Seeing as how some of those comments came from Spurs fans and others from Liverpool fans, I think you're on a hiding to nothing with that one.

Or you will get exactly what you wished for.......

Replace football with synchronised swimming..

My DH is now thinking of not attending a close friend's wedding as his synchronised swimming team is competing in the European games that evening.......

It's a few men kicking a football around a pitch, it's really a bit pathetic.

If that was aimed ar me iced gem what I said was the evening do wasnt a once in a life time event. Which is true as they all follow the same formula. You could go to the evening wedding party, then the brides 30th, 40th silver wedding and then her 50th. It would be the same people , a buffet a disco and most probably a lot of the same music. You know at some point the dj will play Mr Brightside, Dont stop me now, cha cha slide and aga-bloody-do.

6oodfella,I’m imaging you all Pub landlord Al Murray. geezer boy,with zero social niceties
Loving you’re trying to explain to posters that lil ladies don’t get football

It's a few men kicking a football around a pitch, it's really a bit pathetic.

No, it’s an incredibly important match and many of the guests are supporters - why do you not get that?

If the game is that important to them then they shouldve known the date it was on and declined on RSVP. Games can run over too as they're 90 mins long they might as well not come back.

If the game is that important to them then they shouldve known the date it was on and declined on RSVP. Games can run over too as they're 90 mins long they might as well not come back.
You can imagine the threads then:

*We've been invited to a wedding but DP wants to RSVP 'no' because there's a 5% chance their team might make the final and they wouldn't want to miss it on the off-chance that happens; are they being unreasonable?"

If the game is that important to them then they shouldve known the date it was on and declined on RSVP.

The OP said they RSVP’d six months ago, when no one would have known who would be in the final.

@Ricoetbello the invites would have been sent before knowing who would be in the final

They probably did know the date, but they didn't know their team would be in the final.

Some of these comments are hilarious, i think my favourite was record and watch later 🤣

I hate football but agree the b&g are being a bit precious here. It's at 8pm. If people leave then to watch it, fair enough. You can't dictate when people leave your wedding fgs.

WeMarchOn, would your name be linked to your team.
Record and watch later is one of my favourites too.

@FamilyOfAliens

No it's really, really not important at all.
If if think it is then you really need to reassess your priorities.
It is just a few men kicking a ball around.

But that doesn't alter the fact that millions of other people really, really do think it's important.

This topic comes up with depressing regularly whenever there is a sporting event. I think it’s infantile that people cannot forego watching their hobby for an event involving people they are supposed to love.

I also think that sticking the match on isn’t the solution. If the fans are so obsessed that they can’t miss the match for a wedding, then there’s a strong chance that they’ll be the same sort of people who will be in bad humour in the at least 50/50 chance that their team loses. I know someone who did the “screen big international match at the wedding reception” thing. The team everyone supported got knocked out. Over a decade later, people still remember her wedding as the one with all the grown men crying. The party atmosphere was non-existent after that, just people glumly drinking. Awful.

Also, as a guest, who doesn’t like football, I’d hate to be at a wedding where I’d have to partake or accommodate someone else’s spectactoe sport hobby. I RSVPes to a wedding, not to watch a match. Why are their wishes more important than mine (let alone the bride and groom’s)?

@IamaBluebird indeed it is!!

See you soon then. I enjoy a visit to your part of the world.

@6oodfella and clearly you know fuck all about women and haven’t actually bothered to read this thread, if you think men are the only ones passionate about football.

@IamaBluebird joining the PL this season?