The Vision

To our dearest friends:

As you may have heard, we are gonna get hitched!

It is going to be a bicycle wedding; what could be more suitable for the wonderful community we have. We really want you to be there. Be sure to mark SATURDAY JULY 16TH on your calendar. That's the day. It will start around 2:00 pm and go until 1 am. The gathering place and reception party will take place at Trout Lake community centre in East Vancouver.

The plan is to gather at Trout Lake with our bicycles - then ride en masse to the ceremony location - which may be at burrard view park in east van if it is sunny. We dream that everybody is riding on bicycles, including out-of-town visitors and our less-mobile grandparents (who will be pulled on chariots, trailers, rickshaws, pedal couch... Whatever we can come up with). The out-of-towners who don't have bicycles will need to borrow bicycles for the day. After the ceremony we will ride back to trout lake and have a feast - which will be part potluck. Then we will dance the night away, with a local band.

We need your help:
one of our biggest challenges is to get everybody on bicycles, including those who don't normally ride them. We will need about 50 extra bicycles, and about a dozen chariot-type vehicles and/or tandem bicycles. If you have an extra bicycle or a trailer/chariot thing, may we please borrow it?:) We also need people to help us invent/create/imagine/build the chariots, to service the borrowed bikes which haven't been taken out of the garage in a long time, and to help pull the chariots on the big day. We shall also require assistance with the more 'traditional' aspects of the wedding, like food, like music, or participating in the ceremony itself.

take care and take the lane, Love

Jane and Rusl