Road Cycling - Help me put some cycling into my wedding

I am getting married next year, and my fiancee is in official "Wedding Mode" she's got a theme (horse and carriage cindarella ish) and it is my wedding to so i want to "inject" for lack of a better term some cycling into the wedding. My wedding present from here will be a Giant TCR road bike. I thought it would be cool to have the bike up on a table there with the cold food displays under it or something. I will be nervous enough due to my hatred of being the center of attention and i think that would calm me. She says "No" we can have a bicycle cake and i say then it will look like a 14 year olds birthday. Any ideas??????

My suggestion -- forget the bicycle stuff for one day and "enjoy" the wedding. It's enough to get the OCR as a present :)

There needs to be some David in the wedding. I thought of a pack of cyclists leading the limos away from the church would be awesome.

Leave the bike out of the wedding! She may soon be competing against your bike for your love and attention. You definitely don't want that....

But will you be able to go for a quick ride on the day? That's most important.

And I expect you to take a bike on your honeymoon.

These are the only things I'd be worried about :)

Are you marrying the bike? ;)

How about a honney moon to France, Alpe Dhuez style...

If she doesn’t share your enthusiasm about bikes I'd leave it out.

...it is my wedding to so i want to "inject" for lack of a better term some cycling into the wedding....

You're kidding, right?!? If your relationship revolves around cycling, then get married on a bicycle built for two. Otherwise, leave the TCR at home, and let the wedding revolve around your fiance. After all, if you're like most guys, a trip to the justice of the peace would have been just fine. :)

You got a gift for getting married!!!???

I would push for Groom's cake as a bicycle. Let her have her fluffy white flowery deal, and you get your own cake as a bicycle. I disagree with these statements above. If you give in now it's a slippery slope. But, that being said pick your battles. Bridezillas are rough on morale. For the record my cake was in the shape of a fly reel.

groom's cake, if you have one we didnt have one at ours, and the wedding reflected nothing about our personal lives, otherwise it would have been small and outside and a fight for either riding off on the top of a horse or a bike (I would have lost (give in) that battle)

I am getting married next year, and my fiancee is in official "Wedding Mode" she's got a theme (horse and carriage cindarella ish) and it is my wedding to so i want to "inject" for lack of a better term some cycling into the wedding. My wedding present from here will be a Giant TCR road bike. I thought it would be cool to have the bike up on a table there with the cold food displays under it or something. I will be nervous enough due to my hatred of being the center of attention and i think that would calm me. She says "No" we can have a bicycle cake and i say then it will look like a 14 year olds birthday. Any ideas??????

weddings are for women not for you get that straight (G) as otehrs have said you wil lbe just digging a early grave for yourself. jsut say yes dear to anything you can afford and feel lucky you got off so easy.

There needs to be some David in the wedding. I thought of a pack of cyclists leading the limos away from the church would be awesome.

come on... "some David in the wedding" -- ITS YOUR WEDDING !! forchristssake you'll be all over the place - its all about you already! chill, have a day. I just think its foolish when folks feel the need to slather their personalities all over the place at a party the guests are essentially paying to be at.

Isn't being someplece nice (in or out) with some nice people, exchaning your vows good enough?

I am getting married next year, and my fiancee is in official "Wedding Mode" she's got a theme (horse and carriage cindarella ish) and it is my wedding to so i want to "inject" for lack of a better term some cycling into the wedding. My wedding present from here will be a Giant TCR road bike. I thought it would be cool to have the bike up on a table there with the cold food displays under it or something. I will be nervous enough due to my hatred of being the center of attention and i think that would calm me. She says "No" we can have a bicycle cake and i say then it will look like a 14 year olds birthday. Any ideas??????

the most i would do is perhaps look for bicycle shaped cuff links. i'm not married, but from what i've seen - women take this stuff VERY seriously - the fact that she says "No" sounds pretty final to me. i wouldn't push it.

Get one of those tiny little cast pewter bikes and put that next to the groom on the cake. You want something that'd be discrete and doesn't draw a lot of attention but makes a point.

Or instead of throwing that bouquet of flowers into the crowd, hurl the OCR into the crowd.

EDIT: Something like this, just lead it against the groom on the cake. It makes a good point and doesn't spoil the wedding too much by having a giant bike (pun intended) sitting on the table behind the cake like some kinda trophy.
You don't want to look back years later and be like, "man what a cheesy and childish wedding."

djbowen and djladybowen - presented by berry floor - cordially invite you...

Are you getting married in July? Maybe your groomsmen can wear yellow, green and polkadot cummerbunds? What about embroidering HD on her dress sleeves? Sponsor patches on the table linens?

Funny. If I ever decide to get married, I'd have to convince my groom that these are all brilliant ideas. If only Cipo would return my phone calls. ;)

Congrats on the impending nuptials - and the impending bicycle! Sweet dowry, that one. :)

Sponsor patches on the table linens?

You don't want to end up with a nascar wedding, trust me on this one. :)

There needs to be some David in the wedding. I thought of a pack of cyclists leading the limos away from the church would be awesome.
I love this idea, btw.

I think you need to hook up with girl27. ;)

David,

Trust me.
you do not want to get into THAT arguement.
take the advice given above, and like Lance says:
"It's not about the bike".
Do some riding on the honeymoon, cycle up mount hakkaluggi in Hawai,
pedal the whine country in France, but don't push the cycling at the wedding.

(I feel the need to interject some marriage humor here, but truthfully,
there's nothing humorous about getting married. . . :D )

Marty

If you have to, try this site: http://www.eco-artware.com/catalog/weddings.shtml
Picture frame made of bike chain, bike chain key ring, candle holders made of freehubs and cassette rings. It's a not too intrusive, somewhat classy way to put some cycling into your wedding.

Weddings are for the Bride!

Grooms have nothing to do with it. You are simply an appendage. Necessary, but only slightly so!

It is the Bride's way of showing she is a "woman of the world" to everyone.

Stay out of it. The fact that she is accepting an OCR from you as a g ift is all you need for now!

You will soon learn your place in life as a husband.

Replace the horse drawn carraige with a pedicab, and have your teamates do time trails around the block with you and the bride in the back. They have to stop every lap and drink champagne.

Have your buddies form a line outside the church, holding their front wheels up like a cathedral. Then you can walk under them all. They did this at Eddy Merckx's wedding. I've got a friend who was there for that, he is Eddy's personal envoy when he comes to the U.S. He rides with us and runs a training series down here. He is 61 years old and tough as nails. When I met him he was 55 and could finish in the bunch in the Cat I,II race. He his getting married the 26th of this month, we're gonna do that for him.

If I see anyother cycling related stuff, Ill post it here.

I would leave the cycling out of the wedding. Believe me, I know from previous experience, you don't want the cycling to come between your relationship, unless she is addicted to it too!

I know of one wedding where the gift list included all the separate tubes and components of a custom tandem, but the bride was just a keen on riding.

Here's a good one, invite us all to the wedding. Plenty bike-related for you then. :)

"Honey, who are these people you've never met before?"
"They're my friends...."

Weddings are for the Bride!

Grooms have nothing to do with it. You are simply an appendage. Necessary, but only slightly so!


Yup... on his wedding day I told my best friend he was the broccoli on the side of the plate. :D He knew it was true.

For my wedding I only had one request for the day and the other 99.995% of the wedding was whatever my wife and her parents wanted.

You got a gift for getting married!!!???

My ex-fiance and I were going to exchange gifts at the wedding. I had gotten hear a diamond tennis bracelet, which I still have!!!!

It was only an idea, i think a pack of riders leading the limo is cool. other than that it doesnt really matter. just an idea. and yes i spend however many thousands on a engagement ring and i want a gift, damn straight

I think a small lapel pen on the tux would be tasteful. Anything more would be pushing it. IMHO.

Weddings make me nervous, so my hubby and I climbed the local mountain with our two best friends and the justice of the peace. Later, we threw a fajita dinner for 30 members of our family complete with a madhatter wedding cake. Being the center of attention makes me too nervous. The elopement made some angry, but that's not my problem.

Get your club buddies to lead the lemo, and get some cycling cufflinks. Perhaps the chain picture frame with a pic of the bride and groom on the picture table. There are ways to be discreet while still getting your way. If she doesn't want to compromise, then there's a bigger problem.

Wow! You get a Giant TCR for your wedding? If you don't mind me asking... What are getting her?

I am getting married next year, and my fiancee is in official "Wedding Mode" she's got a theme (horse and carriage cindarella ish) and it is my wedding to so i want to "inject" for lack of a better term some cycling into the wedding. My wedding present from here will be a Giant TCR road bike.

Heh. This post reminds me of an old song we would sing when we were kids. I think it went like this:

Daisy, Daisy
Give me your answer, do
I'm half crazy
All for the love of you
It won't be a fancy marriage
I can't afford a carriage
But you'd look sweet
Upon the seat
Of a bicycle built for two

Forget the carriage and the two of you can ride off on a tandem!! :D

It was only an idea, i think a pack of riders leading the limo is cool. other than that it doesnt really matter. just an idea. and yes i spend however many thousands on a engagement ring and i want a gift, damn straight

hey - for whatever it's worth; if you end up with the pack of riders idea, let me know. seriously. you're in new york, right? i'll contribute myself to the effort. I would LOVE to lead a limo in a pack with other riders.

I guess I am lucky. We got married in July and about half way through our reception I found my wife in the bar watching the tour on OLN.

Keep your fiance happy and go with bicycle cuff links as suggested. It will probably only be something very few people will notice, but you will have a bit of cycling in your wedding.

Enjoy the day.

It wasn't my idea and I wasn't into cycling back then, but here's my story.

Unbeknownst to me my friend had a surprise for me and my bride-to-be on our wedding morning. (We were married in Germany, where all ceremonies occur at a courthouse.) Instead of driving us directly to the courthouse he stopped about a mile away and told us to get out of the car. Then he disappeared. He came back a few minutes later with a rickshaw.

We were dressed in our suits for the wedding, which was supposed to start in about 30 minutes and he said, "Hop in. We gotta hurry." Only the deal was that I had to drive my wife in the rickshaw while my friend led the way on rollerblades. This ricksaw was rickety and didn't really have brakes, so it was a bit of a challenge. We got there. I was sweaty, but nearly as bad as my friend.

After the ceremony it started to rain and we were told to wait inside and my friend would be right back. We thought he was pulling the car around. No. He came back with ponchos and exclaimed, "I thought of everything!" That he had.

This time we had to follow him in the car as I drove my wife around downtown Düsseldorf with a "Just Married" sign on the back. I was beaming. We finally arrived back at the store where he had rented the rickshaw where there was a champagne toast to my wife and me with the bike store employees. Best day of my life (and only more memorable because of that darn rickshaw)!

So, think about maybe injecting a bike is some sort of classy way. I like the bikers leading out the limo. Or maybe instead of a horse and carriage ride you could have a ricksaw ride. My friend thought it was symbolically important that I drive the rickshaw for my wedding. You'd have to decide that for yourself.

We didn't do the "big, American wedding" and just had a party on our one year anniversary for everyone. It worked for us. For many brides the wedding is about them (and their mom), but the marriage is about the two of you. I'm with many people on this thread though, "it's not about the bike." Your wedding day is going to be a blur (and the bigger the wedding the more of a blur).

Congratulations and good luck!

Attaching a photo of a couple in a rickshaw (NOT me and my wife):

http://www.asunsetwedding.com/images/Scrap%20Book/Couple%20in%20Rickshaw.jpg

Speaking from over 22 yr of marrige, you better forget the bike for one day. Go for a morning ride before the wedding and call it good. Dnvrfox has it right, you are just an appendage at the wedding. You are expected to be there, look good, and do what you are told, nothing more and nothing less. Besides, you can use the fact that you "gave in" about bikes in the wedding to your advantage at some later date.

Congrats on your up and coming wedding. I'm having a big wedding this August and I'm totally leaving bicycling out of it, but I'm thinking about squeezing a ride or two on the honeymoon :) That might be a great compromise for you if that works...lol

Weddings make me nervous, so my hubby and I climbed the local mountain with our two best friends and the justice of the peace. Later, we threw a fajita dinner for 30 members of our family complete with a madhatter wedding cake. Being the center of attention makes me too nervous. The elopement made some angry, but that's not my problem.

Get your club buddies to lead the lemo, and get some cycling cufflinks. Perhaps the chain picture frame with a pic of the bride and groom on the picture table. There are ways to be discreet while still getting your way. If she doesn't want to compromise, then there's a bigger problem.

They make me nervous too. And the mountain was fun wasn't it? And don't forget the road bikes instead of a honeymoon! I think a small piece of cycling jewelry or a topper on the grooms cake would be the most tasteful thing to do. You don't want to end up sleeping on the couch during your honeymoon.

Remember the purpose of the wedding. If you aren't sure, have a long talk with your fiancée. It's not a bad thing if it has to do with meeting expectations of others or realizing some fantasy which she played out with Barbie dolls 20 years ago.

Just work it out and know what it is. I doubt that letting the world know that you are a bicyclist is one of the purposes. That said, gifts to the groomsmen could easily be cycling related without making a mess of things.

hey - for whatever it's worth; if you end up with the pack of riders idea, let me know. seriously. you're in new york, right? i'll contribute myself to the effort. I would LOVE to lead a limo in a pack with other riders.


The church is is Queens, i need to find a bunch. im me your email if your really interested.

Wearing your cycling shoes at the reception would be a subtle way to incorporate your passion for cycling without detracting from your bride’s big day. And who knows, the cleates could help you become one helluva dancer! Just imagine the spinning moves and sliding you could do in your cleates!

Actually I have seen photo collages of the bride's and groom's single years setup for guests to view at the reception. This would be a great place for you to add some cycling photos you are fond of and maybe even a pix of you on your new OCR. But remember, chicks dig guys who can dance!

It is great when a newly married couple share in a common interest..Should that not be the case, the marriage is the event of the day..It is the brides' day..Maybe cycling cuff links( if such a thing exits) should no other acceptable symbol..Considering some differences between spouses who don't ride together, I sure ideally would first look for a spouse in a cycling club first..
My other interest...Scuba diving..I have known of couples to get married underwater.
If I had my way... ideal wedding ceremony..All show up before the person doing the wedding ceremony on their bikes. Straddling thier bikes as they say their I do's and then ride off to the reception...

I think you need to hook up with girl27. ;)

No, I think I do. I'm the resident bikeforums bachelor, and have been for over four years! :D

In answer to the original question, I wouldn't worry about it. Get up early in the morning and blast a few quick hills to relieve some stress, and you should be OK.

I am getting married next year, and my fiancee is in official "Wedding Mode" she's got a theme (horse and carriage cindarella ish) and it is my wedding too...
You're kidding right?

I had absolutley NOTHING to say about my wedding and went along with everything for the sake of the bride and her mother. Needless to say, a lot of it wasn't to my taste. 10 years later I found out my in-laws borrowed money from a family friend to pay for it and never paid them back. Guess how that made me feel?

Enjoy the OCR after the big day.

55/Rad

Thanks for the feedback, i guess cycling will have to take a day off. And TCR, not OCR.

....And TCR, not OCR.
TCR, OCR? What do I know about Univegas?

:)

55/Rad

If your bride isn't into cycling the way you are, then something understated would be best (cake ideas are good, cuff links, etc.). I think tandeming away from the reception would be great, unless it's dark & you've been drinking too much. What about the rehearsal dinner? Can you bike there, have a bike cab pick the 2 of you up to go there, etc. Usually the rehearsal dinner isn't as formal as the Cinderella wedding. The wedding day isn't just for the bride - it's for the couple and you should have some say in what goes on.

I would have a dressing dilema the morning of the wedding..I own two bike ties...It would be very difficult to not put those on..Any classy event, that is my tie of choice.
I have worn those ties to other's weddings... Maybe all you cycling friends who might be invited will wear such...

Thanks for the feedback, i guess cycling will have to take a day off. And TCR, not OCR.

Precisely, the point I saw when I started to read more and more of the thread. Anyway, you are one lucky guy, to get the bike and marry the girl of your dreams. TCR is better than OCR, it's carbon!! Way cool!

The wedding day isn't just for the bride - it's for the couple and you should have some say in what goes on.



Yeah, right!

The party line from the distaff side! :D