Been a best man in my brother's wedding and a groomsman in a friend's wedding and other than that I think that's the only 2 weddings besides my own I have been in any official capacity.
As far as memories sports related... friends of ours from Nebraska decided to get married the weekend of a Cy-Hawk game in 2006 which luckily was in Iowa City that year otherwise I probably would have had a heated debate with my at the time girlfriend now my wife about going to it. Ironically that was the same year Nebraska played USC too which was probably the biggest game on TV that night. I remember 2 things: having to watch the first 3 quarters of the Cy-Hawk game at a sports bar before heading to the wedding then being upset that we had to go in during the 4th quarter when the outcome was still in doubt (Iowa ended up winning 27-17 but it was within a TD or less when we turned off the radio in the car) and not seeing the wedding party for good chunks of the reception because they were all in the bar watching the Nebraska game and not the room the reception was in at the country club. Made a point to tell my future wife to be that this is exactly why people need to avoid fall weddings because even the wedding party was pre-occupied with the football game going on and were ignoring their guests. I think I probably even laid it on thick how if I had known they weren't even going to be participating in their own reception for a good chunk of the night then I could have done the same and just stayed at the sports bar and watched the end of the Cy-Hawk game during their wedding ceremony.
As far as memories sports related... friends of ours from Nebraska decided to get married the weekend of a Cy-Hawk game in 2006 which luckily was in Iowa City that year otherwise I probably would have had a heated debate with my at the time girlfriend now my wife about going to it. Ironically that was the same year Nebraska played USC too which was probably the biggest game on TV that night. I remember 2 things: having to watch the first 3 quarters of the Cy-Hawk game at a sports bar before heading to the wedding then being upset that we had to go in during the 4th quarter when the outcome was still in doubt (Iowa ended up winning 27-17 but it was within a TD or less when we turned off the radio in the car) and not seeing the wedding party for good chunks of the reception because they were all in the bar watching the Nebraska game and not the room the reception was in at the country club. Made a point to tell my future wife to be that this is exactly why people need to avoid fall weddings because even the wedding party was pre-occupied with the football game going on and were ignoring their guests. I think I probably even laid it on thick how if I had known they weren't even going to be participating in their own reception for a good chunk of the night then I could have done the same and just stayed at the sports bar and watched the end of the Cy-Hawk game during their wedding ceremony.
