‘do We Play The Jays Game?’: Calgary Bride Faces World Series Wedding Dilemma

As nan Toronto Blue Jays cogwheel up for their first World Series quality successful much than 3 decades, 1 Calgary bride is facing an unexpected mobility up of her large time this weekend: should she fto her guests watch nan crippled during nan wedding?

“Do we play nan Jays crippled aliases not? It’s a reliable vote.” said bride-to-be Josie Balka, who grew up successful Toronto.

“Half of our wedding guests are flying successful coming from Toronto to Calgary. Everyone from Toronto wants nan crippled on, but I deliberation I’m leaning toward not playing nan game.”

The timing has near Balka emotion conflicted arsenic Game 2 of nan World Series will beryllium nan Blue Jays’ first since 1993 and happens to autumn connected nan aforesaid time arsenic Balka’s wedding.

With summons prices skyrocketing into nan thousands, nan patriotism for nan Canadian shot squad has taken complete fans crossed nan country, including Balka’s impermanent list.

“I had a horrific thought of america pausing nan crippled for my mom to springiness her reside and everyone booing her because they want to support watching,” she said successful an interview, laughing. “I conscionable want to support it family oriented, but I mightiness beryllium making group huffy by not playing it.”

Balka was calved successful 1993, nan aforesaid twelvemonth nan Jays past won nan World Series. She saidshe finds nan timing symbolic.

“I wonderment if it’s each coming together, that nan twelvemonth I get joined is nan twelvemonth they triumph it again. That would beryllium cool,” she said. “But everyone who’s heard that I’m leaning toward ‘no’ isn’t excessively thrilled pinch me. Hopefully, they forgive me.”

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Some guests, she said, person already travel up pinch their ain solutions.

“People were asking to travel to nan rehearsal meal because we’re doing it astatine a spot that’s playing nan game,” she said.

“I was like, ‘you guys tin conscionable travel to nan rehearsal meal excessively it’ll conscionable beryllium a 2nd wedding.'”

As for banning phones aliases enforcing a no-sports rule, Balka insists she’s keeping things lighthearted.

“That would beryllium nan eventual bridezilla move to return phones away. I decidedly won’t beryllium doing that,” she told Global News. “I dream because it’s Game 2, group will conscionable beryllium checking their phones.”

Now nan mates must make a determination soon, whether to sacrifice their large time aliases their guests’ wishes to watch nan game.

“If they lose, it could put a damper connected things,” she said. “But there’s a sports barroom adjacent door, truthful hopefully we don’t suffer half nan guests.”

Balka says nary matter what they decide, she’s hoping nan Jays and her wedding some extremity pinch a win.

Editor’s Note: Josie Balka is simply a big connected Country 105 — a power position owned by Corus Entertainment, nan genitor institution of Global News.