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Ruining a wedding

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,147 ✭✭✭Mister Vain


    dinneenp wrote: »
    Didn't ruin the wedding but was memorable- best man stood up for the speech and said "I'm not one for speeches/good at speeches so thank you all for coming. Enjoy the evening" and sat down.

    We thought it was a joke at first but that was the speech.
    Reminds me of Homer Simpson. "If I could just say a few words, I'd be a better public speaker." :D Fair play to him. If I ever have to be a best man I'd probably do the same.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,681 ✭✭✭Porklife


    Reminds me of Homer Simpson. "If I could just say a few words, I'd be a better public speaker." :D Fair play to him. If I ever have to be a best man I'd probably do the same.

    I love that line and the way Bart is the only person who cracks up laughing :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,305 ✭✭✭nibtrix


    Toots wrote: »
    I wasn't a wedding guest at this, but happened to be in the bar of a hotel where a wedding was taking place that day. It also happened to be the same day as some big football match, and the bar was packed with wedding guests watching it on the TV.

    Someone came in and announced that dinner was being called, and most of the guests cleared out, bar about 10 lads still downing pints and watching the match. A short time later, one of the bridesmaids arrived in looking pretty pissed off and told them that they'd missed the bride and groom arriving in for dinner, and to get in now because they were serving the starters. Three of the lads ran in after the bridesmaid but the others were still glued to the match.

    A while later a very angry looking man who I think was either the father of the bride or the father of the groom arrived in and went quietly ballistic at them, ending with him telling them that seeing as they couldn't be bothered to come in for the starter, or the soup, and had now missed half the main course, they weren't welcome at the rest of the reception. The group of lads looked like someone had just shat in their pints and eventually they sorta all trailed off and left. One of them remarked how it was gonna be bloody awkward for him cos he was staying the night and his girlfriend (who I assume was also at the reception) was going to kill him.

    In fairness, if you’re close enough to the wedding that either a bridesmaid or a father of either bride or groom has to come to the bar and tell you that you are missing part of the wedding, then it’s an absolute disgrace. If watching a match is going to mean that much to you then you should say up front that you can’t attend.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,925 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    There prob are people out there who would put spending like a €10 and a few strach cards" in the wedding card


  • Administrators, Business & Finance Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,927 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Toots


    nibtrix wrote: »
    In fairness, if you’re close enough to the wedding that either a bridesmaid or a father of either bride or groom has to come to the bar and tell you that you are missing part of the wedding, then it’s an absolute disgrace. If watching a match is going to mean that much to you then you should say up front that you can’t attend.

    Yeah I got the impression that it wasn't a group of random +1s but I suppose depending on how many guests they had overall, if there were 10 people missing from their seats it might be obvious just by looking. If they were all supposed to be at the same table it would be super obvious if most of a table was missing.

    This happened a few weeks before my own wedding, and I mentioned it to the wedding coordinator at the hotel who told me they deliberately don't put big matches on the TV in the bar if there's a wedding, to avoid stragglers coming for dinner.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,641 ✭✭✭Mollyb60


    My wedding was on the 11th June 2016. Right at the start of the Euros. My friend's wife is from Manchester and so she was glued to her phone for the duration of the English match which was fair enough. At least she stayed in the hotel. Around 5 of my friend's bf's/husbands went up the road to another pub after the dinner to watch it. Didn't bother me in the slightest, I didn't even notice they'd gone but apparently the WAGs weren't pleased at all.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,146 ✭✭✭BobMc


    first line of a speech

    "Not for the first time today I'm standing up from a warm seat with a piece of paper in my hand"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,420 ✭✭✭Lollipops23


    Toots wrote: »
    Yeah I got the impression that it wasn't a group of random +1s but I suppose depending on how many guests they had overall, if there were 10 people missing from their seats it might be obvious just by looking. If they were all supposed to be at the same table it would be super obvious if most of a table was missing.

    This happened a few weeks before my own wedding, and I mentioned it to the wedding coordinator at the hotel who told me they deliberately don't put big matches on the TV in the bar if there's a wedding, to avoid stragglers coming for dinner.

    That makes me so relieved our date is in August- between my da and my 4 brothers (and my soon to be husband) there'd be a lot of distracted lads if it was during the football season!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,879 ✭✭✭ArtyM


    I was at a Wedding many years ago in Kerry (Im not from Kerry).
    Before the meal everyone was in the bar area of the hotel having a few drinks and mingling.
    At one point a huge portion of the crowd moved to one section of the bar and congregated around the Tv where a GAA match was being broadcast.
    At the time I thought this to be very rude, given we were supposed to be there to celebrate the couple's special day.
    That was until I noticed that the bride and groom were seated right at the front of the crowd cheering on whatever team was playing.
    They are a different breed of folks in the Kingdom.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,008 ✭✭✭LimeFruitGum


    nibtrix wrote: »
    In fairness, if you’re close enough to the wedding that either a bridesmaid or a father of either bride or groom has to come to the bar and tell you that you are missing part of the wedding, then it’s an absolute disgrace. If watching a match is going to mean that much to you then you should say up front that you can’t attend.

    I agree, I think that behavior is pure ignorant.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,653 ✭✭✭Wildly Boaring


    ArtyM wrote: »
    I was at a Wedding many years ago in Kerry (Im not from Kerry).
    Before the meal everyone was in the bar area of the hotel having a few drinks and mingling.
    At one point a huge portion of the crowd moved to one section of the bar and congregated around the Tv where a GAA match was being broadcast.
    At the time I thought this to be very rude, given we were supposed to be there to celebrate the couple's special day.
    That was until I noticed that the bride and groom were seated right at the front of the crowd cheering on whatever team was playing.
    They are a different breed of folks in the Kingdom.

    I gonna go out on a limb here and guess it was Kerry playing.

    It's their day. If they both love cheering for their team... fair play to them


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 22,407 CMod ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    I agree, I think that behavior is pure ignorant.

    When I accept a wedding invite months in advance I do not know that my team will be in (say) champions league final. You plan your wedding date carefully.

    If you think I am missing Alan McLaughlin* scoring a goal that qualifies us for a world cup in favour of some one liners from Breda's drunk father?


    * RIP


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 267 ✭✭boardlady


    Regarding cash gifts at weddings, we had borrowed money to pay for our wedding. We did get a lot of cash as gifts - I honestly think it was close to €25,000 too - but we kept the cash and used it to finish off our house which was still a bit rough around the edges and scantily furnished. We continued to pay off the wedding loan ourselves over whatever term it was. That way, we can look back and think how our family and friends contributed to our home, but we paid for the big party ourselves! I've never regretted our decision.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,203 ✭✭✭partyguinness


    I dunno man. Taking out a loan to pay for a wedding does not sit well with me...each to their own but I would never be that keen to impress anyone.

    We paid for our wedding and all the trimmings in advance (not on credit) and within our own affordability. It made no odds what gifts we received (if any)- it was of no relevance as we were not dependent on cash gifts to pay for anything.

    Then again, we had the wedding we wanted and we were not out to impress anyone or in the habit of putting on a huge party for the world and her aunt.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,825 ✭✭✭Sebastian Dangerfield


    ArtyM wrote: »
    I was at a Wedding many years ago in Kerry (Im not from Kerry).
    Before the meal everyone was in the bar area of the hotel having a few drinks and mingling.
    At one point a huge portion of the crowd moved to one section of the bar and congregated around the Tv where a GAA match was being broadcast.
    At the time I thought this to be very rude, given we were supposed to be there to celebrate the couple's special day.
    That was until I noticed that the bride and groom were seated right at the front of the crowd cheering on whatever team was playing.
    They are a different breed of folks in the Kingdom.

    We did the same for a Mayo Dublin match. They drew the first game the previous Sunday, so the replay was due to be on our wedding day, the following Saturday at 5pm. We pushed the dinner an hour, got the hotel to set up a big screen and it made for great craic. I'm sure there were a few people with no interest in sports who were annoyed, but you can't keep everyone happy.


  • Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,947 Mod ✭✭✭✭Neyite


    I was a +1 for a massive wedding during the 94' world cup on the day Ireland were playing Italy. Every tv in the country hotel had that match playing. Kick off was at 9pm or for that, but there were two other matches that day also.

    The bride hated football, it was her dream day etc and was adamant that while the entire country had pretty much turned green, her wedding was her day and football was not going to feature even peripherally in it.

    Every male and most females in her family and friend group told her that people would piss off to watch the football. The hotel offered to bring in a projector screen so that guests could watch it. They warned her that her guests would piss off to the main bar to watch the football and that she would be unlikely to be able to get them back in afterwards. Anyway she was well warned.

    The meal finished up around 7 or so and during that lull where the band are setting up and they are moving tables off the dance floor people began to drift into the main bar. Then other people went looking for those people and began to drift in also. Pretty soon the front bar was wedged with wedding guests. The craic was ninety and the pints were flowing nicely. Nobody was budging. It was epic. I'm not even mad about football but I was having a great time!

    At one point I went to the loos in the function room and there was the bride, sitting with a head of thunder on her and about 10 elderly guests in an empty function room with a band listlessly playing to a dance floor empty apart from two hyped up flower girls. Even the groom was long gone. Nobody made it back in for the rest of the evening.

    Absolute disaster and it could have actually been an epic wedding had she just decided to go with the flow and screened the match.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,114 ✭✭✭PhilOssophy


    I get the distinct impresison that is very much to the fore for a lot of couples.
    I definitely didn't view our wedding like that and deliberately only asked "those who we wanted" rather than the "they'd give a good present" brigade. I can smell that a mile away in my own life.
    I dunno man. Taking out a loan to pay for a wedding does not sit well with me...each to their own but I would never be that keen to impress anyone.

    We paid for our wedding and all the trimmings in advance (not on credit) and within our own affordability. It made no odds what gifts we received (if any)- it was of no relevance as we were not dependent on cash gifts to pay for anything.

    Then again, we had the wedding we wanted and we were not out to impress anyone or in the habit of putting on a huge party for the world and her aunt.

    Same as. I get the logic but I'd never be willing to borrow for it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 267 ✭✭boardlady


    I dunno man. Taking out a loan to pay for a wedding does not sit well with me...each to their own but I would never be that keen to impress anyone.

    We paid for our wedding and all the trimmings in advance (not on credit) and within our own affordability. It made no odds what gifts we received (if any)- it was of no relevance as we were not dependent on cash gifts to pay for anything.

    Then again, we had the wedding we wanted and we were not out to impress anyone or in the habit of putting on a huge party for the world and her aunt.

    Each to their own. There was no 'impressing' motive.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,203 ✭✭✭partyguinness


    boardlady wrote: »
    Each to their own. There was no 'impressing' motive.


    Ah come on now....:pac:

    Putting on a big old shindig with all the trimmings is hugely motivated (not entirely) at impressing the neighbours, friends and family (perhaps not you personally). And the more guests the better…

    ”Jaysus they had 400 had it.”
    “Sure that’s nothing, Maura and Mike had 6000 at their wedding”.

    If not, then who in God's name needs 100-300 people at their special day. Half of them you barely know (not you personally) and just feel compellled to invite for fear of insulting someone..


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 267 ✭✭boardlady


    Ah come on now....:pac:

    Putting on a big old shindig with all the trimmings is hugely motivated (not entirely) at impressing the neighbours, friends and family (perhaps not you personally). And the more guests the better…

    ”Jaysus they had 400 had it.”
    “Sure that’s nothing, Maura and Mike had 6000 at their wedding”.

    If not, then who in God's name needs 100-300 people at their special day. Half of them you barely know (not you personally) and just feel compellled to invite for fear of insulting someone..

    I had no fear of insulting anyone - however, you seem not to share this! We paid for our own wedding. If we wanted a large wedding, it was to be no skin off anyone else's nose. We both come from very large families and a rural area with lots of friends, business colleagues etc. It was very much a wedding of its time and place to be honest. Again, each to their own


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,351 ✭✭✭Littlehorny


    Was at a wedding about 6 years ago in the hotel part of Portmarnock Golf Club and all the talk during the day amongst most of the men at the wedding was will the lounge be showing the Champions League final that evening.
    On arrival it was quickly established that they would and there was plenty of telly's around the place to watch the match.
    After the dinner we all headed out for a pint and a chat to the bar and to our delight half of the Ireland squad arrived down about 7pm to get a spot to watch the match. So we're sitting in the lounge with Walters, Long etc and a few people are getting pictures taken with them.
    Of course by the time the match starts by 8pm and goes on till about 10pm no one had moved out to the function room for the dancing. Heard that the bride had confronted the best man and told him to get everyone out to her wedding, believe me the whole day was about her! He had the cheek to say what do you want me to do? And wham! she clocked him across the head.
    Bit of a fuss ensued and to be fair when she calmed down she did apologise to the best man.
    Wouldn't mind she got some great wedding pictures with the Irish soccer panel, great sound lads.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,203 ✭✭✭partyguinness


    boardlady wrote: »
    I had no fear of insulting anyone - however, you seem not to share this! We paid for our own wedding. If we wanted a large wedding, it was to be no skin off anyone else's nose. We both come from very large families and a rural area with lots of friends, business colleagues etc. It was very much a wedding of its time and place to be honest. Again, each to their own

    I thought you said you took out a loan? I get that you paid it back. But yeah that is the type of stereotypical Irish wedding I had in my head.

    I suppose my point is that you felt compelled to have a certain type of wedding- a wedding you could not afford and had to take out a loan to pay for it. Now, I have heard of it before so you are by no means unique in that sense.

    As long as a great day was had by all then that is all that matters. The memories will last a lot longer than the memories of the one off cost. Nobody guest will remember what they spent at a wedding but they will remember the wedding and that is all that matters at the end of the day.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,932 ✭✭✭Sultan of Bling


    That makes me so relieved our date is in August- between my da and my 4 brothers (and my soon to be husband) there'd be a lot of distracted lads if it was during the football season!


    If it's the English premier league you're talking about, it starts in august.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,420 ✭✭✭Lollipops23


    If it's the English premier league you're talking about, it starts in august.

    We're at the start of the month, thankfully.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭mohawk


    If not, then who in God's name needs 100-300 people at their special day. Half of them you barely know (not you personally) and just feel compellled to invite for fear of insulting someone..

    Partyguinness definitely doesn’t sound like a culchie... our list is 200 for next year and they aren’t random acquaintances either.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 358 ✭✭whitey1


    I was reading the history of a local GAA club that celebrated their 50th Anniversary

    There was a story about fellas leaving a wedding reception to play a match and then returning for the reception missing the meal.

    Im certain that some of those who left were brothers of both the bride and the groom.

    Different times back then....no one batted an eyelid


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 245 ✭✭oisinog


    whitey1 wrote: »
    I was reading the history of a local GAA club that celebrated their 50th Anniversary

    There was a story about fellas leaving a wedding reception to play a match and then returning for the reception missing the meal.

    Im certain that some of those who left were brothers of both the bride and the groom.

    Different times back then....no one batted an eyelid

    Friends of the Family missed my wedding mass as their daughter was playing Minor County Camogie match not a eyelid batted and that was only 10 years ago


  • Registered Users Posts: 100 ✭✭Turfcutter


    dilallio wrote: »
    This one comes under the "Almost ruining a wedding" category.

    I was at a wedding about 16 or 17 years ago of 2 close friends. One of the happy couple was related to Bishop Edward Daly, who was the main celebrant at the wedding mass. At the meal, I was sitting at a table just in front of the top table...

    That reminds me of wedding I was at in the West where there groom was English.
    Several of his family and friends travelled over as you can imagine.
    One of his friends in the military attended dressed in uniform. The uniform being that of the Parachute Regiment.

    I would say a lot of the people there didn't twig it, but for those that did it caused some Roger Moore-esque raised eyebrows.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,035 ✭✭✭BrianBoru00


    Can't understand people not making adjustments for guests to watch big sporting events.
    Remember a local girl got married to an english guy and speeches started. several of the locals in the bar watching local county in a match which was a close fought affair and anyone who had missed the first half started to leave as the game eddged towards the finish and into extra time. The grooms man had full power point presentation and for every little anecdote there was a ripple of applause and 3-4 men made a bee line for the bar.

    Ireland V England 1990 - hotel in Athlone and a wedding had been booked for the same date when Elan wanted to reward their employees by booking the hotel for a "do". Approached the couple and after a little too/fro, said we'll pay for the wedding, honeymoon and £10 a head round of drinks if you'll move the wedding by a day.

    Naturally they said no problem!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,203 ✭✭✭partyguinness



    Ireland V England 1990 - hotel in Athlone and a wedding had been booked for the same date when Elan wanted to reward their employees by booking the hotel for a "do". Approached the couple and after a little too/fro, said we'll pay for the wedding, honeymoon and £10 a head round of drinks if you'll move the wedding by a day.

    Naturally they said no problem!


    Are you sure about that? That game was on a Monday night so it would be a little unusual to have a wedding on a Monday evening early June.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,110 ✭✭✭The Raging Bile Duct


    Are you sure about that? That game was on a Monday night so it would be a little unusual to have a wedding on a Monday evening early June.

    Ah, they do things differently down in Athlone. It was probably some local trying to marry his dog. They're weird like that.

    I love when a urban legend gets completely undone by something simple like the date it happened...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,035 ✭✭✭BrianBoru00


    Are you sure about that? That game was on a Monday night so it would be a little unusual to have a wedding on a Monday evening early June.

    yep. that struck me as odd also but Elan were one of the first of the american companies to start going the extra mile for their employees. It was the Hodson Bay hotel.
    I would assume that given it was a weekday wedding anyway that moving it to the Tuesday didn't make a huge difference to the guests who were attending.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 358 ✭✭whitey1


    https://www.hoganstand.com/article/index/237482

    While not a wedding, a priest moved the time of a First Communion ceremony to allow a dad play a very important game-which they won.....and he was MOTM


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 22,407 CMod ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    Are you sure about that? That game was on a Monday night so it would be a little unusual to have a wedding on a Monday evening early June.

    My wedding was a Monday night in July

    Elan were one of the first of the american companies to start going the extra mile for their employees. .
    Elan were an Irish company


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,898 ✭✭✭Cork Lass


    Ah, they do things differently down in Athlone. It was probably some local trying to marry his dog. They're weird like that.

    I love when a urban legend gets completely undone by something simple like the date it happened...

    Yeah, that's like the one where a famous footballer wants the venue and offers to pay the mortgage for the couple getting married if they change their date :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,110 ✭✭✭The Raging Bile Duct


    Pawwed Rig wrote: »
    My wedding was a Monday night in July



    Elan were an Irish company

    Can't imagine Monday nights were a popular night for weddings back in 1990.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    Pawwed Rig wrote: »
    When I accept a wedding invite months in advance I do not know that my team will be in (say) champions league final. You plan your wedding date carefully.

    If you think I am missing Alan McLaughlin* scoring a goal that qualifies us for a world cup in favour of some one liners from Breda's drunk father?


    * RIP

    You'll know the date of the final though.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 22,407 CMod ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    You'll know the date of the final though.

    Yeah. So should the couple.
    But I might be willing to miss a CL final for a close friend and 2 teams I am not interested in but might not fo another. The Ireland world cup is a better example


  • Registered Users Posts: 254 ✭✭nialler1978


    Are you sure about that? That game was on a Monday night so it would be a little unusual to have a wedding on a Monday evening early June.

    We played those cun...oops, I mean team twice in 1990, casco equaliser late on. Was that on the weekend?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,008 ✭✭✭LimeFruitGum


    Pawwed Rig wrote: »
    When I accept a wedding invite months in advance I do not know that my team will be in (say) champions league final. You plan your wedding date carefully.

    If you think I am missing Alan McLaughlin* scoring a goal that qualifies us for a world cup in favour of some one liners from Breda's drunk father?


    * RIP

    Ah of course- big sports fixtures are always a risk with summer and weekend weddings. It's easier to research the main fixtures now. I personally wouldn't have a problem with the match being shown in the function room if it means everyone is together, gets people mixing and having a laugh.

    Don't men realise that the bride has been planning this for ages, stressed AF, and now she's left on her ownio while so many guests are all having the craic out in the bar watching a match. It is still a lousy thing to do.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,271 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Most people would know to avoid All Ireland final dates, but tricky date to watch out for is the replay slot for the All Ireland football or hurling final.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,035 ✭✭✭BrianBoru00


    Pawwed Rig wrote: »
    My wedding was a Monday night in July



    Elan were an Irish company

    they were but american focused and american owned (though an Irish resident for many years).


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    Pawwed Rig wrote: »
    Yeah. So should the couple.
    But I might be willing to miss a CL final for a close friend and 2 teams I am not interested in but might not fo another. The Ireland world cup is a better example

    Right, but you can still RSVP no if you think your team might make it to the final. You have the knowledge of the date when replying.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,411 ✭✭✭✭woodchuck


    Can't understand people not making adjustments for guests to watch big sporting events.

    From my own perspective: I hate watching sports. Like, genuinely hate it. The crowd noises do my head in. I'd rather have silence instead of a match playing. You can't have a proper conservation when a match is on either, because people just get so wrapped up in it that they're not even listening to you and start jumping up and down yelling when you're in the middle of a sentence.

    Matches are on all the time, but you'll only get married once (ideally!).

    If there a genuinely BIG match (I'm talking a once in a decade type thing), I would begrudgingly try to accommodate it, only because I know a lot of people will be MIA otherwise. But for a bog standard match, I'll be damned if I'm having that playing in the background at my wedding!


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,047 ✭✭✭Daisy78


    I thought you said you took out a loan? I get that you paid it back. But yeah that is the type of stereotypical Irish wedding I had in my head.

    I suppose my point is that you felt compelled to have a certain type of wedding- a wedding you could not afford and had to take out a loan to pay for it. Now, I have heard of it before so you are by no means unique in that sense.

    As long as a great day was had by all then that is all that matters. The memories will last a lot longer than the memories of the one off cost. Nobody guest will remember what they spent at a wedding but they will remember the wedding and that is all that matters at the end of the day.

    To be honest if you asked me what particular memories I have of any of weddings I’ve attended over the years I couldn’t tell you. They are all the same to me, same food(usually awful!), same type of bands, same hotel decor. Nothing unique.Country weddings in particular are all the same.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,977 ✭✭✭NewbridgeIR


    Pawwed Rig wrote: »
    Elan were an Irish company

    Frequently confused with Enron.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,546 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    Cork Lass wrote: »
    Yeah, that's like the one where a famous footballer wants the venue and offers to pay the mortgage for the couple getting married if they change their date :rolleyes:

    Must be where the Beckham's got the idea from! :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 507 ✭✭✭Sinus pain


    Pawwed Rig wrote: »
    When I accept a wedding invite months in advance I do not know that my team will be in (say) champions league final. You plan your wedding date carefully.

    If you think I am missing Alan McLaughlin* scoring a goal that qualifies us for a world cup in favour of some one liners from Breda's drunk father?


    * RIP

    I got married during the euros in 2012 - got married abroad so had planned it 2 years in advance. As I was getting married abroad I decided to go with a Wednesday - I was blessed - it was a day off from the football and no games were played 20th June - otherwise I would have had to get a tv in the reception - not only would the guests have been awol my husband would have been too!


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,932 ✭✭✭Sultan of Bling


    We played those cun...oops, I mean team twice in 1990, casco equaliser late on. Was that on the weekend?


    That game was on a Wednesday afternoon.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,035 ✭✭✭BrianBoru00


    woodchuck wrote: »
    From my own perspective: I hate watching sports. Like, genuinely hate it. The crowd noises do my head in. I'd rather have silence instead of a match playing. You can't have a proper conservation when a match is on either, because people just get so wrapped up in it that they're not even listening to you and start jumping up and down yelling when you're in the middle of a sentence.

    Matches are on all the time, but you'll only get married once (ideally!).

    If there a genuinely BIG match (I'm talking a once in a decade type thing), I would begrudgingly try to accommodate it, only because I know a lot of people will be MIA otherwise. But for a bog standard match, I'll be damned if I'm having that playing in the background at my wedding!

    Yes YOU will get married once but the attendees will have a hundred or more weddings.
    For bog standard matches the amount of people looking to watch it while attending a wedding will be in single digits but if you have a wedding fixed for the first Sunday of October in Westport and Mayo were facing into a replay or Ireland England Grand Slam decider on the same time it makes sense to make arrangements timing wise- the match is going to be on in the majority of hotels anyway so guests can view it in the bar.


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