Ten points to the answerer who gets both right.
2006-11-06 16:10:22 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Family & Relationships ➔ Weddings
As expected, you have the "shotgun" right, but the "football"...ask your grandparents, they should know.
2006-11-06 16:22:50 · update #1
Gave up?
Amazing.
Use this computer, do a search under "football wedding". Ten points people!
To a smaller, ethnic group the "football" was not at all like a big stadium event.
You are all young, so you wouldn't understand. Soon after the "football" weddings ended, invitations began with "No children".
2006-11-06 16:48:20 · update #2
Since Delta Mary is quite smart and interested in my question, I'm going to answer her here. My search found just what I wanted to know about a "football wedding". These were common In New York during the Depression days, when folks slept three or four in a bed, jobs were scarse, and money was tight. They would rent out a hall and invite several hundred "paisans" (Italian), and they had sandwiches wraped in wax paper (no celophane or aluminum foil back then). They would toss them around like a football, so that everybody got the sandwich of their choice.
In some ways, wish those days were back again.
2006-11-06 19:03:26 · update #3
A friend of mine is having a "shotgun" wedding and I'm a bridesmaid. You could say I was a little shocked to hear about it about 2 months of her moving in with the guy.
As to the football wedding, I'm going to take a wild stab at it....A wedding planned around a football schedule or is it the bride waiting for the groom to "kick off".
I've tried a few search engines using "football wedding", "meaning of football wedding" and "history of football wedding" and was brought to stories about Alabama football, weddings, and a story about Austrailian "football". I give up and just tell me what a "football wedding" means.
Ok I found something with a reference to a football wedding..And from what I can decipher...It sounds like a wedding that pulls out all the stops to include just about everyone.
"Our wedding was almost at hand, and we were kept busy with the details involved with the reception following the wedding. Marrying off a daughter can be very costly for those parents who have the financial means to supply a lavish reception. Such was not the case as far as our wedding was concerned, as we planned it on a minimal budget.
In addition to our large families, Dad and I had lots of friends. As we prepared our guest list, the roster seemed to grow and grow. Among those included, besides family, were my former schoolmates, members of the Legion of Mary, the church choir, the Malverne Fire Department, and both baseball teams (the Lakeview Ramblers and the Malverne Club). In addition, Dad and his brother Joe had developed a close relationship with the mayor of Malverne, Bill Gaddis, and his son Bill Jr. Both Bills were active members of the Malverne Club, as were Dad and Joe. In order to accommodate everybody and avoid slighting anybody, we planned what was identified as a “football” wedding - a far cry from today’s standards."
---from http://www.fpappalardo.com/family/momsbk11.html
***But I'm still working on it. So far it seems to be a New York state term with Italian influence. And something about how food would be "tossed" to guests and family members.
2006-11-06 18:39:19 · answer #1 · answered by deltazeta_mary 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've never heard of a football wedding. But, a shotgun wedding is a wedding where the bride and groom are forced to marry eachother for whatever reason. The story behind it is something about a guy who got a girl pregnant way out in the boonies. So, her dad grabbed his shotgun and poked it in the guy's back throughout the entire wedding ceremony, forcing them to marry...
2006-11-06 16:14:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-09-01 08:29:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A "football" wedding is basically a huge wedding. It is the kind of wedding that is such a big production that it could be held in a stadium! ;)
A "shotgun" wedding is when the bride is pregnant. The slang term came from the bride's father, who is putting a shotgun to your back to make you marry his pregnant daughter.
2006-11-06 16:16:14 · answer #4 · answered by hollybug_88 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I live in Brooklyn and know exactly what a football wedding details. It is a wedding where they serve sandwiches, a lot of sandwhiches. With dressings and what not. My grandmother had one in the 1940s and always talks about it.
2014-12-09 23:33:15 · answer #5 · answered by ? 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a football wedding is a wedding with a football theme.
a shotgun wedding is a wedding in which the bride and groom are forced to marry because he knocked her up.
2006-11-06 16:13:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
don't know about the football but if it anything like a shotgun its the father shows up at guys house with a foot ball and threatens death to young man if he don't marry fathers daughter shot gun is the father shows up and says marry my daughter or i shoot you
2006-11-06 16:16:12 · answer #7 · answered by dutchess 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
football=kicked up the aisle , shotgun=blown up the aisle.
2006-11-06 16:14:43 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋