Email posted to the CQ Contest reflector earlier this morning (EDT). Call sign of sender deliberately not included, and location of operation redacted, both for obvious reasons; emphasis added.
New Mexico is hosting the W1AW/5 call sign for the IARU contest this coming Saturday/Sunday.

I will be operating the only 160 M station with the W1AW call sign in this contest. I will be utilizing the [ redacted ] station.

I will operate both modes, splitting up each hour into segments as the demand requires. I will operate from 1200Z (sunrise at 1230Z) until 1400Z local Saturday morning.

I will be at my daughter's wedding at 0100Z Saturday evening local, but will be back at the station and on the air approximately 0500Z.


I will operate the balance of the night.
Now, there's one school of thought that would congratulate a hard-core contester on dedication.

But the thought that keeps running through my mind... really? You're going to leave your daughter's wedding reception early... to contest? Your daughter? Really?

Now, I have contested after returning home from wedding receptions. One time was during Pa QSO, we'd been at double-header; KQ3DX (now NB3C)'s wedding at noon, followed by a cousin [N3SRC(sk)'s son] in the afternoon. Another was stopping by a FD site after leaving another cousin's reception, since the FD site was only 2 or 3 miles from the hotel we stayed at. But those occasions, and a handful of others, weren't my immediate family, like a son or daughter.

Am I missing something here? Because my immediate reaction is that this is going too far.

(I'm deliberately NOT going to ask this Over Yonder, as I'm sure the anti-contest crowd, led by everyone's favorite gym teacher, would jump all over it)