Done it all in Sturgis? Get married.

Another happy couple rolls out of the Sturgis Hitching Post. Copyright Sturgis Hitching Post

If you get bored with drinking, carousing, celebrities, custom bikes, and barely dressed women, here's another popular Sturgis tradition:  weddings.  Yes, you and your beloved can tie the knot with braided leather while you swap your wedding bed for a road bed.

The business community in Sturgis stands ready to help you with weddings of all varieties: elaborate, impulsive, or shotgun.

The legalities are easy.  Here's all that's required to launch lifetime of matrimonial bliss in the Black Hills:

• A $40 license, available at the courthouse in Sturgis.  No blood test, breathalyzer test, or waiting period required.
• Both bride and groom must present, and presumably conscious, for the ceremony.
• Each individual must have some kind of identification.
• Participants must be 18 or older, or taller than Yosemite Sam's mustache.

There are several Sturgis businesses that will help you plan -- or throw together -- the wedding of a lifetime.

Sturgis Hitching Post offers weddings right on Main Street, complete with air conditioned dressing rooms, biker or traditional wedding certificate, ceremony with flowers and stained glass, plus your choice of vows, for just $200 (easy payment plans available).  Some openings are still available at the 2009 rally.

You must provide your own leather wedding dress or fringed tux.

Black Hills Wedding Chapel ups the ante (and the cost) with antiqued wedding photos, a dozen butterflies, and venue choices including a casino, church, restaurant, or campground.

So grab your fiancee, or that pole dancer you just met at the Full Throttle Saloon, and get started on a lifetime of happiness.

Or, engage in another popular Sturgis tradition, and skip to the honeymoon part.

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