The West Fargo couple held their wedding at the FM Curling Club on 23rd Avenue South in Fargo on Saturday and after a quick ceremony, Finn, Zich and their guests took to the ice sheets to partake in the traditional Scottish sport.
The two started curling about two years ago. The FM Curling Club had recently opened its new building and the club wanted to rent out the building for weddings in the spring and summers.
Finn thought having a wedding when the ice was still there would be better, though.
“I said, ‘Well, you guys should have weddings when the ice is out,’ ” Finn said.
“ ‘That’d be a lot more fun.’ ”
The Curling Club management liked the idea.
The club has hosted a few other events, including graduation parties and receptions, but never a wedding.
The wedding will help market the club, too, since it relies on word-of-mouth marketing from its members.
“We just wanted to do something a little bit different and we both really like curling,” Zich said. “We wanted everyone just to try something new.”
Zich said the curling-themed wedding was Finn’s idea but she went along with it.
Her family wasn’t surprised by the unconventional venue, either.
“I think they knew it was coming because Mitch is in love with curling,” Zich said. “I think it didn’t surprise them at all.”
The two got involved in curling two years ago when a friend of theirs had the idea of joining a curling league.
“It’s in the winter time when there’s not a lot to do,” Finn said. “Rather than do the traditional bowling or pool or darts, we thought we’d do something different.”
Curling is played on ice sheets, usually with teams of four players who slide granite stones down the ice to a target area. Sweepers alter the ice surface to help guide the stone.
The ceremony only lasted about 30 minutes and then the party hit the ice.
Before the wedding, very few members of the wedding party, other than Finn and Zich’s friends in the club, had ever tried curling. After the wedding, a lot more people can say they’ve tried the sport.
Zich even took curling into account when she picked out her dress.
“There were two dresses, one is a little more princess cut and the other was tight all the way down so I did choose the one I thought it would be easier to curl in,” Zich said. “He didn’t get the dress I thought he would like because the other one I could curl better in. He has to give up a few things.
“He sort of (got) the wedding of his dreams,” she added.
Regardless of which dress Zich is wearing, Finn just wanted to see his bride on the ice.
“The shot, the picture I’m looking for is her on the ice with her dress on,” he said.
The short ceremony and two hours of curling and reception and dance at the Speedway Event Center in West Fargo were planned because, “We wanted everybody to have something to do,” Zich said.
There were still some traditional aspects to the wedding and the families were very involved.
Zich’s two brothers officiated the wedding and one of Finn’s sons played music for the event.
“Everybody’s wedding day is a big day … but we were just trying to keep it a little bit more relaxed,” Finn said.
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