good / better

when hearing the details of our wedding weekend, mb's friend/groomsman nick said, "i don't think i've ever been to a work-out wedding before." while i'm not sure all parts of our wedding qualified as "workout," there were certain sporty elements. but the better-than-sporty elements are what i'll remember most:

sporty: invite guests to bring bikes to wedding, promises of mapped-out bike route for friday.
better-than-sporty: leave own bikes at home to make more room in the car for booze.

sporty: consider swimming and boating upon arrival friday.
better-than-sporty: break out the korbel (brandy - a wisconsin staple) at 4pm.
even-better-than-sporty: replace actual sports with haggling over the over-charged dinner bill, and harrassing passive-aggressive owner-woman until we get our way. judging by the number of willing participants, arguing as sport?

sporty: golf outing saturday morning.
better-than-sporty: everyone gets motorized carts, arranged in teams for scramble. play enjoyable polo-like game of riding as quickly as possible up to the balls to be picked up and trying to scoop them up on the fly.
worse-than-sporty: maid of honor hit in head with fly golf ball from the next runway while trying to locate stray ball in the rough.
better-than-worse-than-sporty: maid of honor's golfing friends include 3 doctors, an emt, a pharmacist, an attorney, and a health insurance professional.
even-better-than-worse-than-sporty: said emt happens to be a rugby player, the only justification we can think of for his kilt and packers hat golf attire. picture large kilted man running across the fairway amid shouts of "someone's down! and she's bleeding!"
relief: she's fine.
better-than-sporty: team that would otherwise have finished last in the scramble tournament now finishes first, because we only played 7 holes and as such have the lowest score. sweet.

sporty: mb and i promise guests that part of the beauty of getting married in such a small town is that you can walk between the ceremony/rehearsal site, the lodging, the restaurants, bars, etc.
better-than-sporty: mb's dad decides that rather than walk to the rehearsal saturday afternoon, guests will be transported via the rented pontoon boat.

sporty: mb and i plan celebratory 5k for saturday afternoon.
better-than-sporty: my brother and butterknife design surprise shirts distributed to our guests via cafe-press, and present us with them on saturday pre-race.
better-than-sporty: the bikemyers family arrives with real race numbers and finishers' medals, all with pretty designs on them.
better-than-sporty: the best man rides the course on his bike and distributes gu packets, water, and jk/kk-supplied coors light to participants at the turn-around.
worse-than-sporty: truck runs over best man's backpack, squishing the gu and coors light together.

sporty(? outdoorsy, anyway): couple plans outdoor wedding ceremony on the lake, during beautiful sunny sunday morning.
worse-than-outdoorsy: grandparents decide they don't want to attend outdoor wedding and prefer to watch from restaurant upstairs.
better-than-outdoorsy: compromise whereby grandparents are summoned outdoors for photos prior to ceremony, then are dismissed back to the restaurant, thereafter referred to as the skybox. bride amuses herself by imagining italian grandfather as paul tagliabue.