What Do Baseball, Football, and Basketball Have to do With My Wedding?

What date to pick for your wedding? It is one of the very first questions you have to answer after you say “I do”. Of course, you check your calendar to ensure you do not pick a date that interferes with another important event in your life and your family/friends lives. However, you should also consider what the impact would be on your wedding if one of the major sports teams were to do well and be in the playoffs or championship game. What do you think would happen if the Chicago White Sox or Chicago Cubs were to be playing game seven of the World Series on the Saturday you pick for your wedding? Or worse, they are playing each other in the World Series? How many of the male attendees at your wedding would be leaving the room to check the score? How many would not come back? How many would have a radio in their ear during your vows? What would your now husband do?? OK, you could deal with it by having the DJ give periodic updates of the score during the reception. What do you think would happen to mood of your wedding if they lose?

This is just a little food for thought. Here are the times of the year that you may have to contend with a major sporting event impacting your wedding:

Pro Football – Go Bears!
Pro Baseball – Go Sox! Go Cubs!
  • January – Playoffs
  • Last Sunday in January or the first Sunday in February – Super Bowl
  • Early to mid October – Playoffs
  • Late October – World Series
Pro Basketball – Go Bulls!
College Football
  • Mid April through May – Playoffs
  • Early through mid June – Finals
  • Mid December through early January – Bowl games

College Basketball
  • Mid March through early April – Final Four playoffs and championship
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