What should I do? Please help.

Bone it like you ... shit, wrong situation for that one.

Go. FirstDownPirates might be onto something by going solo.

 

That's... just... wrong...

 

OK, here's where I have a problem with the whole mentality that the wife-to-be should plan everything, that it's HER day and the groom just shows up.

If marriage is supposed to be a partnership, that's absolute bullshit. A wife who's getting ready to marry a sports editor shouldn't railroad her way into a Saturday wedding during football season. A wife shouldn't pick a wedding photographer the groom can't stand. Fuck that.

Damn glad I'm gay.

 

Can I be your hag?

I would never schedule my wedding during football season. And I can't schedule a wedding during softball season -- body is too ripped up from hitting the dirt.

My window of opportunity is between Super Bowl and May. A lovely spring wedding ...

You plan it for me and I'll be there.

If you could find the willing suitor, that would be great, too.

 

Can you and sportschick share wing girl duties?

 

She can be wing-girl. I want hag status. Big difference.

I think ... I don't know.

 

I don't know, either. I despise the term hag.

And if anyone's wondering what my substitute word is, it's "friend."

But if you want the more uplifting equivalent of "hag," you've got it!

 

Yay, me!

 

My baby was little over a month old when I flew half ways across the country to be at my college roommate's wedding. I got there the day of the wedding and left the next morning. It was hard to do but worth it.

 

My wife took our daughter, then a 6-month-old, to visit gramps in S. Florida. The baby vomited on takeoff and the flight attendant offered a couple of cocktail napkins to clean it up. (yes, seriously).

It was Delta and the connection was through Atlanta. It was also the day that moron ran through security a couple months after 9/11 and shut down the whole damn airport for something like six hours.

They were trapped and the extra diapers and formula ran out quickly. The airline refused to help them. Luckily a nice Irish couple had extra supplies. Landed in West Palm Beach about eight hours late.

As for the wedding, go. And the advice for smacking your friend for not giving you more notice, do that too.

 

the only concern i would have about flying in the day of is airline delays. sure, they're on time 95 percent of the time, but my luck would be to fly in the day of the wedding and be one of the five percent that is bent over.

pete, i wish you the best in getting this figured out.

 

I remember when my fiancee picked planned out wedding. Oct. 4 seemed like a good day at the time. How the heck was I supposed to know the Rangers were going to make the playoffs in 1996, and play their first home game that Friday night?
12 years later, I'm still happily single.

But seriously, yeah if there's anyway you can make it in one day, then go. But since the buddy is an editor, he probably understands your situaiton if you can't go. You just never know how his attitude to you will be afterward though if you don't make it. If you do make it though, he owes you, big time.