Taylor Swift isn’t the only New York-area bride making big NFL news right now for her wedding.
Olivia Coppeletti reached out to the Arizona Cardinals after finding out that the presidential suite at her Jersey City wedding hotel – the place she envisioned getting hair and makeup done with her bridesmaids – was booked by the NFL team for her big day on Sunday, Oct. 4 before their 1 p.m. game against the Giants at MetLife Stadium.
In an email addressed to head coach Mike LaFleur, Coppeletti described herself as a “bride who has exhausted all conventional options” and who had had her “heart set” on renting the suite for months.
The hotel forewarned her that it is contractually obligated to reserve rooms for teams visiting MetLife Stadium on fall weekends.
“In other words, Coach, you have unknowingly become the final obstacle standing between me and my dream wedding suite,” she wrote. “Therefore, I am respectfully submitting what may be the most ridiculous request you receive all season: If you are not planning to use that suite on Sunday, October 4, would you consider letting a desperate bride have a chance to book it?”
It never hurts to ask, right?
In reply, Coppeletti received a video from Cardinals owner Michael Bidwell.
“Your email, which I absolutely loved, made its way to me,” Bidwell told her. “I looked into it. The situation is a little complicated. The suite you requested wasn’t reserved for the coach of the Cardinals but rather the owner of the Cardinals. The good news is that’s me, and I’m happy to give it up to you and your bridesmaids to use during your wedding weekend. Congrats and enjoy your special day.”
Coppeletti shared her story on TikTok with the caption, “What do you do when the Presidential Suite you’ve wanted for 10+ months gets booked by the Arizona Cardinals because they play the Giants the weekend of your wedding? You shoot your shot …”
Coppeletti included a screenshot of her email to the Cardinals, with the subject line “A Completely Unreasonable Request from an October ’26 Bride (for Coach Mike LaFleur).”
In her email, the hopeful bride recognized there is a “99.9 percent chance this email never reaches you, and an even smaller chance that if it does, you have any ability (or desire) to help me.”
In exchange for the suite, Coppeletti offered “my enteral gratitude, the satisfaction of making one bride’s year (and) an open invitation to stop by my wedding venue, Batello, after the game for a celebratory drink (or several) if you happen to find yourself across the street.”
It’s not quite the same as Swift and Chiefs star Travis Kelce renting out Madison Square Garden for their wedding this weekend.
The total opposite of a Bridezilla, Coppeletti said she “fully understand(s) that football is more important than my wedding morning.”
And the Cardinals might have a new fan for life now.
“If the answer is no, I completely understand and will still be rooting for the Cardinals to beat the Giants (my fiance said something about “let’s go Trey McBride.” I don’t know who he is, but I’m rooting for him),” she wrote, referencing her husband-to-be John Prendergast.
Bidwell said yes. Just like Coppeletti did to her fiance’s proposal.
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
