The other religious ceremony: Football

• The Wedding Planner's Web log

By Tanya Bricking
Advertiser Staff Writer

Thursday, Oct. 2, 2003

"What?" I said, like any bride-to-be, oblivious to anything else that could possibly be happening that day.

"It's the UH-Alabama game," he said.

I thought for a second about the fun we had at that game last year. And then I thought, no, none of our friends would choose the game over our wedding. Would they?

His friend, known as "Stump," so named for his tree-stump-like stature, brought this to his attention. Thanks a lot, Uncle Stumpie.

(Interesting side note on Stump: His formal invitation will be addressed to "Mr. Stump" So-and-so, to humor my fiancé. You can just imagine how that went over with my mother, who follows rules of etiquette and is addressing the invitations. "Stump?" she asked, looking for an explanation. "Yes," I said. "I don't even know his real first name. Just put 'Mr. Stump.'")

Anyway, Mr. Stump planted visions in my finacé's head about mini TVs and the commercial where the guy seems to be engrossed in prayer but is really engrossed in a game.

Boys will be boys.

And so will girls.

My long-lost pal Ronda, a huge Crimson Tide fan who moved back to Montgomery, Ala., after finishing grad school at the University of Hawai'i, says she's trying her darnedest to get to O'ahu for "The Big Event."

I'm not sure if she means the wedding or the game.

A Southern belle at heart, I'm sure she would have consulted the football schedule before setting a wedding date.

Alas, I would have failed that debutante test.

She says she's entering a contest multiple times daily to try to win a five-day trip to Hawai'i for Thanksgiving weekend. It's a longshot, she says, but it could happen.

Yes, she, too, could have to choose between us and the game.

Tanya Bricking writes about relationships for The Advertiser. Reach her at tbricking@honoluluadvertiser.com or 525-8026.

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