A grand day out
Learned purveyor of good sounds and witty blogmeister, DJ, raised a good point today - what nufty-head would plan their wedding on the day of the AFL Grand Final?
Well, Stu and I will become Mr. and Mrs. Nufty-Head on September 29th, 2007.
That's right, we dedicated Melbournians are saying our vows on the most holy of days on the football calendar.
This was a much considered decision, driven by one notion - good old-fashioned romance. Both Stu and myself had been privately considering the idea of marrying on the same date as our current 'anniversary'. So when we mentioned it to each other, we couldn't help but want to continue the tradition. We don't much subscribe to the commercialism of Valentine's Day, and have always put a lot more effort into celebrating our togetherness on a day more unique to us.
It was only later that we realised that this date might have some significance to more than just ourselves!
We thought about the people that are to be invited, and with the exception of my Saints-devoted brother, we're sure that most of them would be delighted to spend that day with us. Well, my brother will still be happy to come along, but you know what it's like for a sports mad teenager!
We will hopefully come up with a way to quench the thirst of our friends and family for news of the game, but don't want it to dissolve into thirty men gazing at a widescreen TV while I cut the cake with my girlfriends. Really, we would give our guests more credit than that - but we are so spoilt with the media giving us news 'as it happens', we couldn't deprive them of some kind of update!
But how, without ruining the elegance of our much anticipated event?
Well, Stu and I will become Mr. and Mrs. Nufty-Head on September 29th, 2007.
That's right, we dedicated Melbournians are saying our vows on the most holy of days on the football calendar.
This was a much considered decision, driven by one notion - good old-fashioned romance. Both Stu and myself had been privately considering the idea of marrying on the same date as our current 'anniversary'. So when we mentioned it to each other, we couldn't help but want to continue the tradition. We don't much subscribe to the commercialism of Valentine's Day, and have always put a lot more effort into celebrating our togetherness on a day more unique to us.
It was only later that we realised that this date might have some significance to more than just ourselves!
We thought about the people that are to be invited, and with the exception of my Saints-devoted brother, we're sure that most of them would be delighted to spend that day with us. Well, my brother will still be happy to come along, but you know what it's like for a sports mad teenager!
We will hopefully come up with a way to quench the thirst of our friends and family for news of the game, but don't want it to dissolve into thirty men gazing at a widescreen TV while I cut the cake with my girlfriends. Really, we would give our guests more credit than that - but we are so spoilt with the media giving us news 'as it happens', we couldn't deprive them of some kind of update!
But how, without ruining the elegance of our much anticipated event?
posted by Janet at 1:13 pm
8 Comments:
I can only hope that it's a Sydney V West Coast final, then we may be able to carry on with some decorum!
Brave move guys!
It's hard trying to come up with a way to appease everyone, and also not to ruin your day.
Are you having a break between the ceremony and reception? If so, maybe time it so anyone who wants to, can go somewhere to watch majority of the game (anytime from 2:30pm to 5), then go to reception afterwards.
Obviously you'd need to take into account whether your group of friends would go silly over alcohol in the break??
Very hard - good luck!
That's a great thought Martie!
We're still looking at the timing of things, but perhaps we could wiggle in something during photos...
Luckily our friends and family are a behaved bunch, and alcohol shouldn't cause any dramas.
Great!
I'm still shaking my head in disbelief
If people would prefer to go to the football, or sit in their lounge room and watch it on the television, then that's perfectly fine, people have priorities, and we would completely understand.
The kinds of people that we're inviting aren't likely to care whether or not the football is on, and it was thus that we decided it would be okay to press ahead with the plans.
We will simply send invitations. If our invitees decline, c'est la vie, we'll send them a copy of the video.
okay. I'll shut up now
Don't worry about your brother not coming, St Kilda have no hope in hell of making it!
Heee, as all us girls make it up the aisle, we should run through a big banner, and then halfway through the ceremony we stop, and have kids from the local junior football league do a few laps of the chapel and do some kick to kick.
And then some mediocre Australian singer could underwhelm us with their vocal stylings.
*Janet wakes up kicking and screaming - Noooooo!*
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