Are any other June 7th brides ticked off...?

Question

... because game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals is on your wedding day?

The groom and the groom's family are HARD CORE Penguins fans. I'm going to be livid if the series goes to all seven games and half of our guests walk out of the reception to go watch hockey at the bar. My fiance keeps telling me that the series won't go that long, but I know he's just trying to be nice. Any words of encouragement or personal anecdotes are welcome! Thanks!

P.S. I'm posting this in both the wedding and hockey sections to get a breadth of perspectives.

Answer 1

Don't worry about it. Wings in 6 so your in laws won't have a game to watch. But the bartenders at your wedding reception might have an increase of people crying in their beer.

Answer 2

That's why you never see any hockey fans getting married between the months of April and June. July, August, September, it's all fair game.

Answer 3

I'M PISSED AT PEOPLE WHO SCHEDULE WEDDINGS IN EARLY JUNE.  I have a wedding to go to June 7.

Don't worry the Wings will win in 5.

That's why when I got married it was on March 31 a couple of years ago.  Back from the honeymoon in time for the playoffs to start.  Too many good playoff games missed because of those "spring" weddings.

Answer 4

Feeling your pain, but this question has a remarkable symmetry to one that Bill W asked only a few days ago:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

I wonder if there's something he's not telling us?? lol

My old friend scheduled her wedding (and I know she wouln't have done this on purpose) on FA Cup Final day (soccer - England) years ago, and her dad was so ticked when they announced the game date!  He DID sneak off to the tv periodically, and they still speak to each other.

If there is a game and it is during the ceremony or all the speeches, then the boys are going to have to sit it out, but be kind to them and have the reception venue put up a DVR somewhere so they can catch up with things.  After all, it's the home team and the best trophy in sport....

If you can bring yourself to embrace it fully, and have a big screen and a celebration of marriage and hockey, your wedding will be talked about with love and enthusiasm for ever.

All the best for the future - embrace the hockey for love, I only recently discovered the sport, and know how it has consumed me....  my husband is very supportive!

Answer 5

i have already posted in the wedding section...but just wanted to see what the hockey fans said. they are funny, and some may be stupid to think that you can just postpone the wedding for a stupid game. its the biggest game of your life...and guess what the playoffs will be here next year...but your wedding wont! just rent a tv, so you can have the game turned on, and place it near the bar, and people will be happy!!! good luck on ur up coming day!!!

GO WINGS..... not a huge hockey fan....just a DETROIT fan!! go Wings, go TIGERS....

Answer 6

The wedding can wait a couple hours the game can't

Answer 7

Yeah, I would totally postpone that wedding. I don't care, it's the Pens, it's my 2nd favorite team vs. my most hated team. I am WATCHING that game 7, no matter what. I have seen every Stanley Cup deciding game since 2001 and I have seen the winning team lift the Cup every single time. I have ditched class to watch it, I have turned down birthday parties to watch, and I would find a way to watch it even if my wedding was on that day.

Answer 8

Easy solution: If it goes to game 7, don't go.  I'm sure your husband will understand.

Easy solution:  Don't schedule weddings during hockey or hunting season!  Especially hockey season!

Answer 9

Oh man, my brother got married during the Michigan-Michigan State football game two years ago. I was so mad that I couldn't watch the game and I don't even like football as much as I love hockey. But during the reception, the DJ periodically announced the score of the game. I still really wanted to physically watch it, but I guess it was good to just know the score of the game.

Still, when it comes to the Stanley Cup finals and a game 7 that would decide the champion between my beloved Red Wings and some other team, I wouldn't even go to my own wedding.

Answer 10

But that game's not gonna happen.  The Wings will win in 4.

Answer 11

weddings should not be scheduled during important moments in a sports season. that's how i feel about that.

if my brothers were getting married during playoff time, i wouldn't go, and they'd understand me 100%.

i'm also never going to get hitched during a crucial time in sports season. june weddings suck. people think just cause it's summer that they can plan all the weddings they like. p**s off and get married in the dead of winter.

no i think people understand the circumstance behind having a wedding. i'm a big fan of the show rich bride or poor bride and seeing the planning all these kind of events. i've also planned important events that have taken months. anyways the point is, if you're any kind of a sports fan...you don't plan the wedding during the stanley cup finals, world cup, world series, mlb championship finals, super bowl, nba finals, epl finals, uefa finals, etc etc... it's good to know those who think like me provide humour for all you "sane" people.

and you don't plan to get married on the day the leafs win the cup, because first, you'll probably miss the game, and you can only get married before or after they win.

the thing is you can argue for 1 or the other, or for both, like gonchar said about the tv at the wedding.

but this person with the comment:"you can just postpone the wedding for a stupid game. its the biggest game of your life...and guess what the playoffs will be here next year...but your wedding wont!"  hahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. your wedding can also be there next year. people get gilted all the time, need more time to reasses why they're getting married. we all know how important and once in a lifetime weddings are...but just so you know people put that same importance on sports championship, so stop being a biased loser and calling the other stupid. it's not. and also the whole it's just a game/sports, it's not really life/ w.e explanation. your wedding can also be post poned, just like sporting events. they're both entrentched in reality...even though one is more personal than the other, and loving a sport can also become personal as well, and basically i hear what you're saying about the june 7th brides. i'm not a big fan of summer hockey, just like i'm not a big fan of multiple weddings in the summer, cause it's the most popular season.

Answer 12

I recall back to my sisters wedding...Toronto vs LA....Gilmour vs #99. There was a steady stream of people heading to the local Legion during the reception to catch the game on TV....and the beer was cheaper also.

***** Just set up a TV behind the bar. That will keep people updated and probably bring in lots of extra cash.

Answer 13

Reschedule the wedding. If he's as big a hockey fan as you say he is, then he will be watching game seven with a bunch of his buddies rather than be with you at your wedding.

Answer 14

i would cancel if it goes that far but it wont the pens will take it in 4

Answer 15

as A Hockey fan and a fan of true love I think that everyone should suck it up and go to the Wedding and reception its one special night and its not like either the wings or pens have never won a championship before

Answer 16

Is this really necessary. After all you have all year to do the wedding thing Hockey is all that matters.

To put things into perspective. As Paul Henderson once told me "it was just a goal and it was only a hockey game, not like it was that important."

Answer 17

Game 7 or not, I'll be rocking out with Jimmy Buffett in Raleigh

Answer 18

Anyone silly enough to plan weddings during either hockey or white-tail (Michigan holiday after-all) deer seasons shouldn't complain at all......sorry just my opinion.  I had to have two of my kids baptized during deer season and I'm STILL hearing about it.

Answer 19

wow, bad bad timing.

I feel for you... because your exactly right... people *will* be angling for that tv set to either watch the game or get updates.

look, just do yourself a favor and setup a tv near the door. you'll be stress free and your guess will be happy.

although it *is* your day... if I was a guess... I would be ticked (inside of course) that you were a bonehead for doing this... but its obvious not your fault... but that's what I'd be saying.

good luck

Answer 20

That sucks, can't you push the date back?

Rent a big screen and watch the game at the wedding, LMAO

Answer 21

Holy c**p....I didn't even realize that....

My fiancee and I are getting married on the 7th and worse of all, we're both (as well as most of the people coming) HUGE hockey fans.  I don't think it's as frustrating to know that some people might duck out of the reception as to miss game 7 of the finals!!!

Oh man....

Answer 22

i got invited to 3 weddings and 2 graduations on june 7th....and i am skipping all of them if there is a game seven

i bet there are only gonna be 5 games in the series so ..............

i

Answer 23

First of all it won't go that long, the Pens are gonna have it wrapped up long before that. But if it does, don't you realize what that would mean, GAME 7 of the STANLEY CUP FINALS. Winner of that game wins the STANLEY CUP. Loser has a long offseason to ponder how close they were. If this series goes 7 games it would be the BIGGEST game for the Penguins in franchise history. I think you should just have the game on at the reception to solve that problem, because it will be that BIG.

GO PENS!!!!!!!!

Answer 24

If you were a true fan you would CANCEL the wedding.

I know Buffalonians would

Answer 25

Be serious people, its her wedding, she's been planning forever! And hubby should've spoken up if he anticipated a problem ;)

I understand your plight, but as a hockey fan, you gotta breath and not take it personally if people sneak into the bar off and on. Who knows, it very well may not go to 7 games. And besides, if someone really has to be a bag about it, they don't need to be a part of the day, and they're better off drunk at a table by themselves.

Answer 26

A cousin of mine got married in western Michigan, June 7, 1997. Just kinda happened that way.

They had a TV in the bar in the lobby outside the reception hall. People (me included) kept heading out for a quick peek, without neglecting the party too much.

My family left in the evening to head for home while the game was still on, and listened to the last few minutes of the game on the road. Hearing the roars of the crowd and the description of the end of the game of the awarding of the Stanley Cup to Yzerman gave me goosebumps. I couldn't imagine that watching it on TV would have been any better.

Answer 27

omgg i would be so p*ssed hahaha. but thats cuz im a hardcore hockey fan. dont worry they wont go to a game 7 the penguins will win it in game 6 which is on june 4th. i honestly thought it was gonna start sooner then saturday but o well. you have nothing to worry about, penguins in 6. =] omgg like someone else said i probably wouldnt make my own wedding either. but lets just hope they finish it in game 6. goshh if it was me & there was a game 7 i would be like omg omg omg who's winning but i have to go to my grandma's funeral that day so i hope there's no game 7 either cuz i have family cr*p all day.

Answer 28

Hi.  I posted my answer in the wedding section, but I just wanted to see what people said in the sports section.

People are funny here!  Obviously, they are joking when they say to postpone the wedding!  That is a hoot!

Anyway, like I said in my other answer.....the Red Wings will do everything they can so that you don't have to fret over game 7.

Woo hooo!!!  LET'S GO RED WINGS!!!!

Answer 29

well, why be ticked off, hockeys awesome!

but good luck with the wedding!