Super Bowl 2012: Would You Miss A Family Member's Wedding For Football?

If you think missing a family member's wedding for any reason is out of the question, think again.

Recently, 20 percent of respondents to an online survey said they would miss the wedding of a close family member to attend a Super Bowl game, as long as it was featuring their favorite NFL team.

Here at HuffPost Weddings, we found that statistic hard to believe, so we polled the Twitterverse to get some more answers. It turns out that the online survey had it right. Overwhelmingly, Twitterers said they would skip a Big Day bash to watch the Big Game.

Most users wanted to know: Why would anyone plan a wedding on Super Bowl Sunday?! We don't have an answer, but it might have something to do with the often years-long waiting lists for venues.

Click through the slideshow below to see what our followers had to say, and let us know what you think in the comments.

Comments

[LilaGrace]

10:38 AM on 02/14/2012

Not only would I NOT skip the wedding, but if I was the bride/groom, I would DISINVITE anyone rude and insensitive enough to make it an issue. If a football team that you have no vested interest in other than bragging rights at the local bar is more important to you than the wedding of a friend or family member, then believe me, you're not worthy of an invitation!

[qsfoxx]

04:14 AM on 02/03/2012

When professional sports teams begin to pay a fair and reasonable rent for the use of taxpayer funded stadiums, then I might begin to have an interest in what is big business. Even still, it's like routing for General Electric or IBM.

[isisreptiles]

01:24 AM on 02/03/2012

Since I have zero interest in the Super Bowl, I'd go to the wedding. But why would anyone have their wedding on Super Bowl Sunday? Not a good idea...

[LilaGrace]

11:04 AM on 02/14/2012

Wait lists for some venues can take months to crack, and that may be the only date available. I find it to be the height of selfishness to expect a couple to plan their wedding around a football game. I know people in the south who can't plan their weddings during college football season because half the guests wouldn't show up! What does that say about how they feel abouot the couple? Not sure I wouldn't just elope and say the hell with all of them!

[twfslc]

11:50 PM on 02/02/2012

The daughter of a co-worker got married during a White Sox playoff game. The father of the bride made sure that there was a TV outside of the reception hall, so that guests could check the score.

My wife and I tried to schedule our wedding around possible sports events. However, in the infinited wisdom of the NBA, they decided to schedule a Bulls-Knicks playoff game for the afternoon, rather than the evening. Since experts believed that Jordan was going to lead the Bulls to the team's 4th NBA title, guests start to head to the bar to watch, when the game went into overtime at the Garden.

I would have gone, too, but I figured that my new wife, as well as other relatives, would have voiced their disapproval in no uncertain terms.

[Ray Mcgowan]

11:49 PM on 02/02/2012

What is a super bowl?

[ixob673]

11:32 PM on 02/02/2012

Why would any couple with any common sense set their wedding day on Super bowl day? Would bit make anhappy group, espescialy the men.

[LilaGrace]

11:08 AM on 02/14/2012

Since the wedding is about the couple and not the guests, I think the guests should be willing to put the happiness of the bride and groom ahead of themselves. Unless they own one of the teams competing (and probably not even then), there is nothing about the Super Bowl that is worth missing a loved one's wedding for. If that day is all that is available (and trust me, it has happened. Booking a venue can be extremely competitive), should they postpone their wedding for a few selfish guests?

[Joe317]

10:47 PM on 02/02/2012

I would skip a wedding to watch reruns! or to watch grass grow .. or paint dry.

I don't do weddings .... they are expensive (generally), pompous affairs that mark the beginning of an institution with a 50% failure rate. Not good odds. And the divorces are typically much more expensive than the wedding. Was an outmoded tradition!

No thanks.

Marriage: Bad. Shacking up: Good.

[twfslc]

11:57 PM on 02/02/2012

You obviously don't have a single sentimental bone in your body. I like weddings, and I think the statistic is misleading.

And, if the guy decides to cheat while shacking up, the girl has no recourse. If they're married, he has to pay, big time. Then there's my dentist, whose husband walked out on her, because he only wanted three kids. Kid number three came with a twin. If they had just been shacked up, she would never had gotten the money to go to dental school.

And if you're in an accident, the spouse can give consent for surgery. Unless you're live-in lover has a health care power of attorney, he or she can't. If your lover dies without a will, and you haven't put everything in joint tenancy, you get nothing.

Yeah, shacking up is such a good idea. NOT!!!!

[Joe317]

12:37 AM on 02/03/2012

"If they're married, he has to pay, big time."

Well, I'll give you one thing. You're being honest about it, even if we don't agree.

Women in the US look at marriage as an insurance policy, of sorts, as so demonstrated by your examples. And to this point in time, the courts there have been maintaining that posture, too. Men do not enjoy the same advantage, though, so for them, marriage isn't so fiscally attractive as for a woman. For instance, if SHE is the one that cheats, he cannot "make her pay, big time" in most instances (in US courts).

As for your legal examples, well, the moral of the story is, have a will, and have a medical directive in effect. From where I stand, it's a lot cheaper than marriage, AND can be easily rescinded in the event of a break-up.

When marriage went from being a commitment of the heart to being an instrument of politics, I was done with it.

As you can surely guess, I'm shacked up, and have been for many years .... same woman, still happy. I wouldn't have it any other way.

[bmitche]

10:43 PM on 02/02/2012

ABSOLUTELY !

[bohica6525]

09:29 PM on 02/02/2012

Just proves taht most NFL fans are AS*HOLES.

Their day does not change on Monday whoever wins.

[twfslc]

12:00 AM on 02/03/2012

Oh, yes it does. I worked with a Packer fan. When the Packers lost the Super Bowl to the Broncos, we showed no mercy. Everyone wore orange and blue all week. Another co-worker wore an Elway jersey on casual Friday. Mind you, her family had season Bears tickets. She just wanted to rub his face in it, badly.

He spent a lot of the week in his office, with the door closed.

[LilaGrace]

11:14 AM on 02/14/2012

That's only because you and your coworkers are immature and need to grow up. Your age should not match your shoe size!

[johnqdemocrat]

01:48 PM on 02/14/2012

You and your coworkers are officially awesome!!! That's the best comment I've read all day. Rule of thumb: never show mercy to a Packers fan :-)

[Joe317]

02:54 AM on 02/03/2012

Their day won't change "on Monday" if a family member is married, either .....

So what's your point ?

[LilaGrace]

11:16 AM on 02/14/2012

Maybe not, but selfishly ruining one of the most important days in their lives to spite them for having the nerve to interrupt your football viewing by planning their wedding that day doesn't make you a good person, even if your team does win.

[ThatIsJustGreat]

08:42 PM on 02/02/2012

Why miss a family members special event? That is what a DVR is for. Nothing has to be "missed." That said, while I can appreciate booking on Super Bowl Sunday might get a coveted church and reception site? I can't imagine booking that day!

[altheschrod]

08:33 PM on 02/02/2012

Of course not--that's pushing it TOO far! But TV sets ought to be located nearby for guys to get their fix.

[joannevlavender]

08:17 PM on 02/02/2012

I'd miss any wedding, anytime...including my own.

[LilaGrace]

11:17 AM on 02/14/2012

I bet you're still single. I can't imagine why...

[joannevlavender]

10:01 PM on 02/15/2012

You'll never know--and I won't tell you. Poor you!

[hman570]

08:09 PM on 02/02/2012

Not everyone is caught up in the hype that the New and TV spreeds on the Game. Would not miss a family function for a stupid football game, no way. There are people that think the Super Bowl along with the rest of the football season is a waste of good time, better spent doing more productive things in life.

[dd00405]

07:39 PM on 02/02/2012

You have got to be kidding me that this is even an article. Too f'n bad if there is better things to do on the day of a stupid pointless game. If someone skipped out on me for that, I would never speak to them again. Good riddance.

[belldn3]

07:20 PM on 02/02/2012

Go to the game, screw the wedding. You'll thank me later.

[joannevlavender]

08:18 PM on 02/02/2012

Given the divorce rate, the cost of appropriate wedding-attendance attire, and the ever-escalating cost of a wedding gift (plus a shower gift), I say...skip the wedding. Send each of them a check when they get divorced. They'll need it more then.

[bmitche]

10:45 PM on 02/02/2012

very good advice.