To object to DP watching the football the day after we get married?

[LoveMyGirls]

We're getting married on the saturday, it's a fairly big do with family coming from all over, one friend is even coming from norway...

Anyway the next day the plans we roughly to have a bit of a lie in (as we're guessing we won't get to sleep until 3am ish) then get up, have a bit of a tidy up, then either have family come here or us go to them so we can see our dd's for a few hours, open presents/ cards, then finish packing for the honeymoon we go on our honeymoon the early hours of the monday so we'll need an early night too.

DP thinks he'll have enough time to watch the football at 12pm.

I think we have enough to do and by 12pm we'll be with family and I think it's rude to have football on when you're with visitors and also I think he should want to spend what little time we have with dd's that day.

I'm saying he can sky plus it and watch it later once everything is done.

AIBU?

YABU. Marriage is for keeps. What is 90 mins here and there.

Who is anyone to tell someone else what they can and can't do about something so harmless? It is not a harmful thing. Very controlling I think to try to stop someone from watching a football match when they really want to and it is important to them.

'We've agreed he can have it on quietly in the background.'

christ is he 5?
if i was him i'd be buggering off out to the pub, and sod opening the wedding presents

I don't particularly like football, and I sepnt the first day of my honeymoon at White Hart Lane before going off to Paris. Now that's commitment.

Plus It gave me an excellent bargaining tool.

My Aunty phoned our local football club to find out the score for DH on our wedding day, and he left the reception to check the scores on the telly. It didn't bother me, he was only away for a short time, he's spent longer on the loo.

The biggest sacrifice my DH made for me was on our wedding day. We were getting married in my parents' church and having the reception in the Bishops Palace in Wells. West Ham were playing Bristol City just a few miles up the road - DH has WHU written through him like rock and the thought of the match going on without him must have hurt like hell! But he didn't complain (well not more than a few times and never on the day itself). Then the bish himself turned up to pop in and congratulate the bride and groom - turned out he was a Hammer too and had just seen the match. DH grilled him mercilessly Marry a football fan, marry the club. Sorry.

This is not even the wedding day. It's the day after the wedding day.

And weddings are not all about just the bride. Good weddings are a reflection of both people and their personalities.

The day after the wedding should be all about kicking back with friends, relaxing etc. If a sizeable portion of friends want to celebrate that aspect of the groom's personality, why not?

God knows I wish our day-following-the-wedding had been a bit more relaxed.

HarleyD talking sense as usual. Is it the Norn Iron connection?

typical bloke