Who has faced this dilemma?

[tmustangp]

read this article

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/columns/s ... id=2892305

if so I want a full story!

[BUS]

The trick to this is to schedule better. My wife and I got married 3 hours after the SMU-TCU game 3.7 years ago.
We rented out the Grand Ballroom in the Student Center and hired the PitPops as the dance band.

I got to watch the second half of the game with my son ( and Best Man ) in our wedding clothes. My bride and her group were busy doing the hair and dress thing.

After a quick but legal wedding we sat down to a dinner for 30 ( the food was awesome ) and a party for 200, in the Grand Ballroom. The PitPops were GREAT and everybody danced.

SMU was fantastic about planning and again I was surprised at the quality of the catering.

It's all about planning.

[mrydel]

The trick to this is to schedule better. My wife and I got married 3 hours after the SMU-TCU game 3.7 years ago.
We rented out the Grand Ballroom in the Student Center and hired the PitPops as the dance band.

I got to watch the second half of the game with my son ( and Best Man ) in our wedding clothes. My bride and her group were busy doing the hair and dress thing.

After a quick but legal wedding we sat down to a dinner for 30 ( the food was awesome ) and a party for 200, in the Grand Ballroom. The PitPoops were GREAT and everybody danced.

SMU was fantastic about planning and again I was surprised at the quality of the catering.

It's all about planning.

Come on BUS. GOOD planning would have scheduled the wedding after the TCU game 2 years ago. Although I am sure your lovely bride made up for the outcome of the game.

[ponyte]

My sister got married in the fall of 1978. When she first got engaged, see proudly proclaimed that for once, my father and I would have to schedule our activities around her event and not SMU football. As it turned out, she decided to schedule the wedding in the fall. She then had to find a weekend when SMU was not playing (as it was between the Penn State and Ohio State games).

Yes, I made the wedding but as poetic justice would have it, she still had to schedule her event around SMU football. To this day I still love it!

[BUS]

Mrydel, I could not have waited that long.

On another subject, the Boulevard Spot is reserved and ready for the Tech game. We will have a tent this year to give more shade. I sure hope Serge gets to play!?

[mrydel]

Mrydel, I could not have waited that long.

I understand. I married mine during lunch hour at work because we could not decide on a good date and we were ready. Left the office at 12:00 noon, got married, went to McDonalds and back at work by 1:00. Not glamorous, but it did take hold and has stayed strong. I did not even miss any games on TV.

[BUS]

That's a little faster than we did it. SMU was great to plan with. I asked, she accepted and we got married two months later.

See ya

[DiamondM]

After I got engaged and before we had set the actual date, whenever anyone asked us, the answer was "Sometime between college basketball season and college football season." This was not only because neither of us would have missed a game, but we were being courteous to our guests. May 24 it was.

Unfortunately, we were unable to plan the birth of our first child so well. That's right, there will be a little DiamondM (of unknown gender for the time being) around November 1 this year. At least it's in between home dates if everything works out right on schedule.

The scouts are already calling.

[ponydawg]

Congrats!

[Peruna2001]

One of the girls that I was in band with through college got married on a game weekend. She was the only girl left from our freshman class. She knew that none of us were going to be able to make it. I still don't know why she planned it that weekend...but oh well.

[jtstang]

After I got engaged and before we had set the actual date, whenever anyone asked us, the answer was "Sometime between college basketball season and college football season." This was not only because neither of us would have missed a game, but we were being courteous to our guests. May 24 it was.

Unfortunately, we were unable to plan the birth of our first child so well. That's right, there will be a little DiamondM (of unknown gender for the time being) around November 1 this year. At least it's in between home dates if everything works out right on schedule.

The scouts are already calling.

Aren't you married to a Tech guy? Please, for godsakes keep him seperated from that child until adulthood.

[SMU Football Blog]

One of the girls that I was in band with through college got married on a game weekend. She was the only girl left from our freshman class. She knew that none of us were going to be able to make it. I still don't know why she planned it that weekend...but oh well.

You answered your own question.

[Peruna2001]

Ouch!

[ThadFilms]

The trick to this is to schedule better ... hired the PitPops as the dance band ... The PitPoops were GREAT and everybody danced.

I've never had the PitPoops, but I'm sure if I did, dancing would be the last thing on my mind.


.... on a side note, my brother scheduled his wedding on a game day... fortunately it was an way game. As the best man it was my job to report directly to him every scoring change as he got ready, etc. And man did I have a lot of reporting... it was 1997 second to last game of the season at Tulsa. Final score? 42-41 SMU.

Unfortunately SMU went on to lose the next game at TCU in one of the most disturbing, disgusting, ugly losses I have ever experienced. That was my Freshman year... I was in the band... it was an extremely tough off-season.

[DiamondM]

Are you telling me a former drum major of the Mustang Band scheduled his wedding on a game day? Disgraceful.