I broke the cardinal rule of a sports fan: never schedule a major life event such that it will conflict with a sport you care about.

Corollary One: Don't get married during football season, ever. No exceptions. Your team may have a bye week this year, but they won't again next year-- and your friends who are fans of different teams are screwed even if you aren't.

Corollary Two: Getting married during baseball season is not ideal, but could possibly be acceptable* as long as it is not done (a) on Opening Day weekend, or (b) during the last 6 weeks of the season.** If you are following Corollary One, (b) will not be a problem.

Corollary Three: Don't have an event during March Madness unless you are planning on having a wall of TVs showing all the games at the reception. I did go to an event once that had this, and it ruled- but 75% of the attendants spent the entire party in front of the TVs. So proceed with caution.

And now I can add:

Corollary Four: Don't move (or otherwise be unavailable all day) on Trade Deadline Day. It is painful. And unless you have a pal willing to regularly text you with updates (thanks, Clare!), you will go bananas. The Gwen Stefani kind of bananas.

You know when's a good time to get married? (1) February- after the Super Bowl, before March Madness; (2) during the All-Star break; (3) that week in December after the college football conference championships but before the Bowls start (provided you are not getting married on Sunday).

* For the record, this is not acceptable for me.
** I add an additional - "or (c) during my annual spring training trip".