” It should be obvious that June 13th, 2015 is a special date to me. When my wife and I sat down to figure out a date to be married, it never occurred to us that it could conflict with anything that couldn’t be moved to another date. Turns out you can’t ask the VHSL to move the state championship game for anything less than a natural disaster. Nobody realized that it could be an issue until it was well past the appropriate time to change the date for the wedding.
The softball team was making a great run in the playoffs and I kept getting asked the same question over and over. “What happens if they make it to the championship?” I always answered the question the same way each time, “how awesome of a problem would that be.” But truly I did not know the answer to that question, I was just hoping for dad that it would be one that we would have to figure out and luckily it was. Fast forward to the day of the wedding and the game, we had come up with a plan. Ricky Thomas was kind enough to offer to fly mom and dad back to an airport in Mt. Airy following the completion of the game. Had he not done that, I’m not sure how well it would have worked out for them to be able to get back in time.
The wedding venue was in Cana Virginia so that also helped. The game wasn’t televised but I was glued to a radio that sat on my kitchen counter as my groomsmen and I sat around and listened. When the final out of the game concluded, there was an eruption of cheering that came from my house that I can guarantee every neighbor within a 100 yard radius could hear. It was going to be a good day regardless but everyone in Carroll County knew that it would be icing on the cake (pun intended) if he was able to show up to the wedding with the first ever State Championship Carroll had won.
After the conclusion of the game, celebrations, and interviews my parents hopped on a small plane and headed straight back with no issues and were there in plenty of time to share in our celebration of marriage. The day couldn’t have gone any better.”
Now we will add a photo 📷 or two here and Kayla Goins Nester shared that they were able to play Queen’s We are the Champions at the reception and I hear there are great photos of her new Father – In Law cutting a rug on the dance 💃 floor !
A.S.P.N on The Hill 