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I have never missed a home game since The Rent opened. Good friends wedding is Sat. Ceremony is at 5, reception starts at 6 at the old state house in Hartford. Assuming dinner will end by 8.

He's gonna be in my wedding next summer. Do I leave after dinner and hit up the 2nd half (never missed kickoff) or do I wait til I get home and watch the game in its entirety?

Fiance is adament that we cannot leave the wedding early to which I say I wouldn't give 2 #(*&*# if somebody left ours early. They should expect it having a wedding during football season.
 
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Yea a wedding during football season is a big no no. One of my good friends got married on a Sun in Oct (they wanted 10/10/10) and my friends and I raised hell about it (and that was just NFL on TV).

That said it's happening so I would stay and try to catch the second half. If we win it will be worth it to see the celebration and sad Edsall in person.
 

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Posted this in another thread, but received no responses.

I have never missed a home game since The Rent opened. Good friends wedding is Sat. Ceremony is at 5, reception starts at 6 at the old state house in Hartford. Assuming dinner will end by 8.

He's gonna be in my wedding next summer. Do I leave after dinner and hit up the 2nd half (never missed kickoff) or do I wait til I get home and watch the game in its entirety?

Fiance is adament that we cannot leave the wedding early to which I say I wouldn't give 2 #( & # if somebody left ours early. They should expect it having a wedding during football season.

That is because it is really not much of a dilemma. If you want your fiancé to become your wife (I assume you do, otherwise she would not be your fiancé), you stay at the wedding. Generally, happy wife = happy life and this is a battle that just isn't worth shaking up the apple cart for (as long as you are at Michigan next week :D).

I guess it is commendable that you haven't missed a home game, but that really should not factor into the decision. Plus you will have already broken the In The Building for Kickoff streak. The wedding of your good friend is far more important. Presumably this will be his only wedding. There will be other games at Rentschler. Not to mention, you indicate that you will leave the reception after dinner to come to the game? So you are willing to suffer through the worst part of the reception (banquet food generally svcks) and give up the best (open bar and dancing) to catch last call of a watered down $10 swill at a game that may very well be well in hand. Seems like a lot of aggravation just to say you've been there.
 
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Agree with 25. Don't alienate your good friend's wife and more importantly your fiance. Now give up the tickets. Use the WatchEspn app to follow the game.
 
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Clearly you guys are not that good of friends or this would not be a decision.

DVR and get drunk with your buddies at the wedding. Grow up Peter Pan
 
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This question would not even be asked down south because: nobody gets married during football season and if they did, nobody would show up.

That said, go to the wedding. Not even a question in my mind.
 

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When I got married back in 1970, the service was held up until halftime of a Giants Redskins game and the reception line was facing the bar with the TV facing us. Didn't miss a play.
 
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That is because it is really not much of a dilemma. If you want your fiancé to become your wife (I assume you do, otherwise she would not be your fiancé), you stay at the wedding. Generally, happy wife = happy life and this is a battle that just isn't worth shaking up the apple cart for (as long as you are at Michigan next week :D).

I guess it is commendable that you haven't missed a home game, but that really should not factor into the decision. Plus you will have already broken the In The Building for Kickoff streak. The wedding of your good friend is far more important. Presumably this will be his only wedding. There will be other games at Rentschler. Not to mention, you indicate that you will leave the reception after dinner to come to the game? So you are willing to suffer through the worst part of the reception (banquet food generally svcks) and give up the best (open bar and dancing) to catch last call of a watered down $10 swill at a game that may very well be well in hand. Seems like a lot of aggravation just to say you've been there.
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Had the same problem with a family wedding last year. As it was for a nephew there was no way we could get out of attending the wedding. Thankfully we have an iPad with 3G and simply watched the game via that during the reception.
 
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Told my son don't have the wedding the day of a Home Game.
 
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I'm skipping a family wedding in Wisconsin for the Michigan game. I sent expensive gifts.

Honestly it depends on how close you are to the couple. If they are people you will hang with stay. If not leave whenever.
 

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Never missed a game except Towson... Unless you are pretending you didn't rewrite your blog post after getting ripped here....
 
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The only occasion I would miss a game for would be my funeral. Just kidding. Now if we were in the top ten and playing 'Bama, I'd be crawling out of my coffin to be there. Not kidding!
 

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Keep in mind the guy asking your advice had this to say about you last week when he rewrote his post after being skewered for having the nerve to question people leaving while sitting at home:

"Those that are currently reading in their parent's basement can argue about that on 'The Boneyard' for the next two years. "

All while posting links to his own blog pretending to be someone else. Great another moron to throw on the pile.
 

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Skip the wedding altogether. This is what you do: tell your fiance that you will meet her there. Say you have to run to the store (keep it generic). After she pulls out of the driveway, tear off your tear-away suit and let your BLUE breathe a bit. Get in your car and speed to East Hartford, only slowing down for speed traps and hot college girl gazing. Park your car fast (there isn't a moment to lose) and fire open your pre-packed cooler, separated by alcohol volume. Start in the heavy section and get blitz drunk so that when your fiancé calls your cell asking if you are close, you answer in some belligerent jibberish only decipherable by Keith Richards or Robert Downey, Jr cirqa 1992. Your fiance quickly (and correctly) determines that you clearly cannot drive anywhere and, upon learning that you "accidentally" wound up at Rentschler Field, also figures that fighting stadium traffic to pick you up for the wedding is not an option. She's angry but you don't care because a bus full of college girls just parked next to you and wants to party. And you're stupid drunk. You tell your fiance that you "owe'r one" and instruct her to "take w'n fff the team" and hang up. You have to go anyway because your shoelaces are on fire. After a few hours of drinking games with the college girls, you are ready for guilt-free football. You stumble your way towards whichever stadium that you think is the actual stadium and then it hits you: you left your ticket in your tear-away suit pocket. . But no worries, you think quick on your feet (or on your ass, depending on how many stadiums you think you are seeing). You throw up enough beer, jaeger, and scotch to write a quick sign with your finger that reads "want a single". Confident in your vomit sign's message, you sit patiently for that golden angel of a UCONN fan that just-so-happens to have an extra ticket burning a hole in his/her pocket. You pass out. A few days later, you are woken up by your ex-fiance who has taken the time away from you to pack up your things into garbage bags. You try to explain yourself and plea with her that you even (thoughtfully) posted this Dilemma post on the Boneyard to help with your inner turmoil. "But it is Randy Edsall. I HATE Randy Edsall." Her reply takes you completely off-guard: "it's not that dipsh1t, I saw your message that you wrote in your puke saying that you 'want to be single' Well congratulations, you got it."

Now to tie this altogether, posting this "Dilemma" thread is the equivalent to writing that you "want to be single". Go to the damn wedding, dude.
 
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I have never missed a home game since The Rent opened. Good friends wedding is Sat. Ceremony is at 5, reception starts at 6 at the old state house in Hartford. Assuming dinner will end by 8.

He's gonna be in my wedding next summer. Do I leave after dinner and hit up the 2nd half (never missed kickoff) or do I wait til I get home and watch the game in its entirety?

Fiance is adament that we cannot leave the wedding early to which I say I wouldn't give 2 #( & # if somebody left ours early. They should expect it having a wedding during football season.

In 25 years will you remember that you missed the Maryland game? In 25 years will you remember that you missed your good friend's wedding? There's a lot of football games, but there's no bumper crop of good friends, and seeing a good friend get married is rarer still.
 
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Posted this in another thread, but received no responses.

I have never missed a home game since The Rent opened. Good friends wedding is Sat. Ceremony is at 5, reception starts at 6 at the old state house in Hartford. Assuming dinner will end by 8.

He's gonna be in my wedding next summer. Do I leave after dinner and hit up the 2nd half (never missed kickoff) or do I wait til I get home and watch the game in its entirety?

Fiance is adament that we cannot leave the wedding early to which I say I wouldn't give 2 #( & # if somebody left ours early. They should expect it having a wedding during football season.

Dude, bail on the wedding. They literally won't have a clue you left. If you think it'll be done by 8, you'll be dying when they're handing your plate to you at 830.
 
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Never missed a game except Towson... Unless you are pretending you didn't rewrite your blog post after getting ripped here....

Want my ticket stub? Pics of the stadium empty? Text messages from forte asking am I happy I stayed til the end? Not sure why you think I didn't go to the game....
 

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My streak was threatened by a wedding out-of-state on the same day as the USF game. But I was let off the hook because I only met 1/2 of the happy couple twice. Once at a tailgate. But if it was the OP's circumstance, I go to the wedding and not think twice.
 

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Want my ticket stub? Pics of the stadium empty? Text messages from forte asking am I happy I stayed til the end? Not sure why you think I didn't go to the game....

A: you linked to your blog post pretending it wasn't written by you
B: it was clear the author of the blog
post wasn't at the game, there are pages of commentary about it
C: you completely rewrote the blog post making it seem as though the author was at game while adding shots at the boneyard
D: then you posted on your blog some letter you claimed was a week old - while pretending a second time that you aren't the author of the blog

You are like a dozen posts in and are already full of crap. Maybe you were there - if you were I'd drop the blog because it was clear that the writer was not at the game so you are either full of crap or a terrible writer.

Doesn't matter to me which one it is - but save the attention whoring 'dilemmas' - it's a bit pathetic.
 

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We have 12-13 football games per year. Your good friend has (hopefully) one wedding in his life. We all love uconn football, but there are events in life that supersede our passion. Weddings, childbirths, deaths etc. Those events should not be planned around football season but if they do occur we do our part. Skip the game.
 
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Had the same issue a few years ago when we played WVU on a Friday night (and won). Now obviously I was disappointed to miss the game but looking back I know I made the right choice going to the wedding. Now if you were talking the Michigan game you might have an argument.....
 
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A: you linked to your blog post pretending it wasn't written by you
B: it was clear the author of the blog
post wasn't at the game, there are pages of commentary about it
C: you completely rewrote the blog post making it seem as though the author was at game while adding shots at the boneyard
D: then you posted on your blog some letter you claimed was a week old - while pretending a second time that you aren't the author of the blog

You are like a dozen posts in and are already full of crap. Maybe you were there - if you were I'd drop the blog because it was clear that the writer was not at the game so you are either full of crap or a terrible writer.

Doesn't matter to me which one it is - but save the attention whoring 'dilemmas' - it's a bit pathetic.
A: you linked to your blog post pretending it wasn't written by you
B: it was clear the author of the blog
post wasn't at the game, there are pages of commentary about it
C: you completely rewrote the blog post making it seem as though the author was at game while adding shots at the boneyard
D: then you posted on your blog some letter you claimed was a week old - while pretending a second time that you aren't the author of the blog

You are like a dozen posts in and are already full of crap. Maybe you were there - if you were I'd drop the blog because it was clear that the writer was not at the game so you are either full of crap or a terrible writer.

Doesn't matter to me which one it is - but save the attention whoring 'dilemmas' - it's a bit pathetic.

You are in quite a mood. In response to your claims. Nothing was rewritten. If you maybe take some time to read the first couple sentences you can obviously see how what I was saying implies that I was at the game.

Terrible writer or terrible reading comprehension?

Fake letter to Warde? Call him up. Don't spit lies about someone without backing it up with anything, otherwise you just look foolish.

In addition to the comment of a dozen posts in, been posting here for the last 8 years, over on the old scout site under a different handle and now over here. Took a year off as I was directly involved with the program for a bit.

Now go back to being miserable.
 
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