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That wedding with the ban on Champions League final?

74 replies

sonjadog · 01/06/2019 21:56

A few weeks´ago there was a thread about a wedding where the bride and groom had banned the final this evening. I wonder what has been going on there tonight? Did everyone leave the reception at 8pm? Did the B&G give in to the inevitable and put up a TV?

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YouLikeTheBadOnesToo · 01/06/2019 22:34

I’ve been thinking about this too. Can’t remember op to search to see if she’s updated though!

Buffy81 · 01/06/2019 22:34

EachandEveryone It was spurs 0-2 liverpool.

I will have a strppy DH to try and ingnore when he gets home at some point tonight

SunshineCake · 01/06/2019 22:35

😂

2-0

BadnessInTheFolds · 01/06/2019 22:35

Found the due date one: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/3582214-OH-going-abroad-for-a-football-match-on-my-DD?pg=9&order=

No update (hopefully because all is well and OP had her baby )

ReanimatedSGB · 01/06/2019 22:41

I always feel so sorry for people who get their weddings hijacked by some fucking men's football game. OK if the bride, groom or their immediate families are football lovers, probably fair enough, but if no one close to the bridal party is particularly interested in men's football, it must be so upsetting to have people insist on having the telly on during your wedding reception to watch men chase balls round fields - or people deciding not to come at all.

SmellbowSmellbow123 · 01/06/2019 22:43

@user1474894224, I don’t know but I’d like to know what happened!

Mummyoflittledragon · 01/06/2019 22:43

The op was bonkers. Hopefully she and the groom saw sense. Otherwise they may have been very lonely and upset today.

MitziK · 01/06/2019 23:00

I just remember what it was like for my SIL to spend her wedding reception standing in the tiny kitchen whilst her new husband, his friends, brothers and the two that turned up out of her four brothers locked themselves in the large living room with all the food and beer to watch the FA Cup Final. Her other two brothers didn't come at all, nor did one of her sisters whose husband refused to come, as they chose to watch it elsewhere.

Poor bloody woman. Stood in a kitchen for three hours, crying in her wedding dress with two uncomfortable teenagers, and her MIL (who hated her) sat on the only chair left, in the hallway by the front door, telling her 'well, this is what married life is. You'd better get used to it'.

WhiteRedRose · 01/06/2019 23:06

@MitziK cheery thought that 😳

I hope she divorved the c*nt tbh.

WhiteRedRose · 01/06/2019 23:06

Divorced* too

TurquoiseAndPurple · 01/06/2019 23:17

I can't remember what show it was but the other day there was a segment that had a bunch of couples who had weddings fall on the same day as big football games. Most of them said they were upset about it at first but then decided to embrace it and said it actually made their wedding better as when the teams won everyone was elated and the atmosphere was amazing! Think they were mostly England games during the world cup.

CheddarandCrackers · 01/06/2019 23:27

Well having watched the abysmal game in the pub, the main thing of interest was the 2 dogs deciding to play chase around the pub.

Far more interesting than what was happening on the pitch! Grin

MuinteoirTuirseach · 01/06/2019 23:31

Mummyoflittledragon the bride didn't start the thread herself, OP was just one of the guests. Hopefully there's a great party atmosphere at the wedding now, anyway!

Walkamileinmyshoesbeforeujudge · 01/06/2019 23:33

Bet they don't dtd tonight if the groom was watching TV!!

AngeloMysterioso · 01/06/2019 23:33

MitziK so was your DH one of the arsehole brothers who locked her out, or one of the arsehole brothers who didn’t show up? Or was your DB the arsehole new husband?

Fraxion · 01/06/2019 23:33

2-0 Liverpool

MitziK · 01/06/2019 23:38

@WhiteRedRose she did in the end. Mainly because the selfish prick of a brother was nobbing around on the side, though. Mind you, had she been in the main room with the football fans, she'd have found out on her wedding day he had being doing that all along, and not when their youngest DC was 5. Like I did - hence why myself and my cousin were standing awkwardly in the kitchen, as the jokes about 'having to dump Randy Mandy now you're married' gave me an insight into my big brother I really didn't want at age 14.

That's why I associate insisting on watching football (or rugby, tennis or any other sporting event) on a wedding day as being purely selfish and disrespectful to whoever is getting married that isn't equally enthusiastic about seeing it.

DP made a joke about it before I told him about my brother's wedding. He couldn't believe that somebody would actually do that. But he does know my DNA sharers are pricks, so if anybody would do it, he's not surprised it was one of them.

MitziK · 01/06/2019 23:39

Sorry, cross posting. My brother was the groom. He and the other men locked her out - her own brothers, one sister and her Dad just didn't show up at all.

Iltavilli · 01/06/2019 23:40

There are loads of days in the year when football doesn’t happen, particularly big matches. Yes weddings are often planned months / years in advance, but if you pick a Saturday in May / early June (or June / July in World Cup / Euro years) you shouldn’t throw a strop if your family are into football and want to watch.

ReanimatedSGB · 01/06/2019 23:50

Trouble is, though, people who are tediously obsessed with men's football can't 'just' watch the game in the middle of someone else's wedding or birthday party. They will bore on about it beforehand, keep checking their watches, nag other guests about whether they are going to watch or not and who they are going to cheer for - and then if all the guests who care about it support the team who loses, they will all be sulking and whining for the rest of the event - and if you've got some people who support one of the teams and some who support the other, then you might even have a punch up take place.
Last summer, when that tiresome international men's football competition was on, there were people willing to ruin six-year-olds' birthday parties over the fucking football games: host parents being told they 'had to' provide a telly, never mind that the birthday kid had no interest in sport and would be miserable if guests wanted to watch television rather than play party games...

Doobigetta · 01/06/2019 23:51

So basically you shouldn’t expect to have a wedding in the late spring or early summer? When nearly everyone has their wedding? Don’t be stupid.

MidniteScribbler · 01/06/2019 23:57

I'll never understand the obsession with a sport where hardly anyone ever scores.

hammeringinmyhead · 02/06/2019 00:11

Why the repeated emphasis on men's football?

ReanimatedSGB · 02/06/2019 00:17

Because it's men's football that the majority of people make this much fuss about. Unless you know people who are really invested in women's football, you'd hardly ever be aware there was a women's football match on.

Iltavilli · 02/06/2019 00:18

That’s not what I said at all @Doobigetta - it’s usually handy to actually read a comment before providing a snotty reply.

The Champions League final is always the last Saturday of May / first Sat of June. There hasn’t been Premier League football for 3 weeks. If you have a family into football, why would you pick this date rather than those when no football is happening, especially as there is now a 2 month gap before the Premier League starts again?

Have your wedding, but expect people to want to watch.