Why you better not get married in June or July 2020

Do you have wild plans next year to promise your love your eternal ‘yes’? That's really nice. And an incredibly good plan, too.

Because getting married is romantic and it's super cozy. All your dearest family and friends together on one day, all for you, all for your love. That's worth a lot of champagne toasts. Yet in 2020, you need to pay attention to what the date is. Or well, pay very close attention. June and July are of course popular months to get married. But you’d better not get married during this time of year in 2020. And that has everything to do with...

Football.

Yes really, sorry, but before you know it, you're getting married on the day that the Netherlands plays in the European Championship. The European Championship will take place next year from June 12 to July 12, 2020, in no less than twelve different countries, including the Netherlands (Johan Cruijff ArenA Amsterdam). Just watch, Oranje has to play and you’re standing with a gigantic screen on your big day. And you can brush it off now and think: no way, that won't happen to me, my guests won't care whether the Netherlands is playing or not. But you will always see. It's just that incredibly exciting final against Germany. Just that most important match with Frenkie de Jong and Matthijs de Ligt that even your fiancé must see. And then you can't escape that big screen. Believe me.

I got married on a Saturday in May, and that just happened to be the Saturday that the Champions League final was played. I can tell you one thing: how incredibly happy I was that Ajax didn't make it to that final. Sorry Ajax. But it was still a slightly sultry wedding without a massive wave of sound with shouts like: ‘GODVER REF! IDIOT! RED! FOOL! SHOOT THEN! PENALTY!’

On Sunday, June 14, the Dutch national team will already play a first match against Ukraine. Then you know it in advance.