The dawn of Spring shines upon the commonwealth this weekend, marking a new beginning for many things in the bluegrass. The SEC Tournament, a new wedding season, and the antiquated practice of daylight savings time that allows our weekend to be cut an hour short regardless of whether or not you are a farmer.  No matter which new springtime event you’ll be celebrating this weekend, everyone can agree its inconvenient.  However, no one feels that more than bride-to-be Julie Potter.

Potter made the classic selfish mistake of planning her wedding day around the availability of the bridal party and close family, which inexplicably coincides with the end of college basketball season.  The wedding has a scheduled tip-off of Saturday at 1:30pm, and as the final touches of her wedding preparation are in full swing, Potter is beginning to notice many of her friends on snapchat are sending private snaps of posed photos with thermometers, overlaid graphics that say 0 MPH, and bowls of soup.

Last week Potter admitted to her friend Cheryl from work that she was hoping for a first round exit from the tournament, “I mean it doesn’t really matter how we do right? Like if we win or lose we’re still gonna end up playing in Memphis.  So can’t I just enjoy the day I’ve been dreaming about my whole life?  Can’t we just lose to Georgia or whatever and keep our potential two seed?”

Potter’s fiance Chad Roberts claims he wasn’t aware the wedding date would fall during the semifinals of the SEC tournament when he agreed to the wedding date last June.  “I just thought you know it was still the beginning of March, so we would be safe from any problems. Also with everyone leaving last year I didn’t know if we’d be any good.”

Roberts, clearly unaware of what Coach John Calipari has accomplished since coming to Kentucky, has been apologizing to his friends he hasn’t seen since college yet still feel obligated to come to his wedding, since late December.

Randy Smith, former room-mate of Roberts explained, “Yeah I mean he promised I could watch from my phone, and there’d be a full bar, but honestly I guess it just depends on what time we play on Saturday.”