- Location
- Glasgow
For sure, there will be ironing facilities at the guest house.
I would just roll up the suit as described upthread, then give it a quick iron at your destination.
Transporting a two piece suit to a wedding
- Thread starter Riverman
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I would just roll up the suit as described upthread, then give it a quick iron at your destination.
Cycleops
Legendary Member
- Location
- Accra, Ghana
At the guest house run a hot shower and hang the suit up in the bathroom. The steam will take the creases out.
annedonnelly
Girl from the North Country
- Location
- Blyth, Northumberland
If it's the sort of guest house I've stayed in there will be a friendly owner who'll be happy to help out with the loan of an iron. Or even offer to iron it for you 
I've done similar trips with a suit, but for work and not a wedding!
I've found the best solution is to carry everything except your suit in the panniers. For your suit (and shirt if you can't iron it at the other end) get your sen something like this (far fancier options available). Shorten the strap as much as possible then sling it over your shoulder like a massive courier bag when on the bike. Keep in it hung up on the train and at either end. As long as you aren't traveling mega distances the suit will be just fine.
i hope you have a good time and the bride and groom have a wonderful day.
I've found the best solution is to carry everything except your suit in the panniers. For your suit (and shirt if you can't iron it at the other end) get your sen something like this (far fancier options available). Shorten the strap as much as possible then sling it over your shoulder like a massive courier bag when on the bike. Keep in it hung up on the train and at either end. As long as you aren't traveling mega distances the suit will be just fine.
i hope you have a good time and the bride and groom have a wonderful day.
FrankCrank
Old layabout
I haven't worn trousers, or a jacket, or closed in footwear, for over 2 years now. My next trip there will bring me back with a jolt
Accy cyclist
Legendary Member
- Location
- The hills of Accrington
SydZ
Über Member
- Location
- Planet Earth
Check the care instructions for your suit, many (most) advise against ironing.
if you still choose to do so then place an additional layer between the suit and the iron.
if you still choose to do so then place an additional layer between the suit and the iron.
T4tomo
Legendary Member
I think I'd rather see a string quartet at a wedding than pikies in tracksuits
I'd rather have a live band than a string quartet thou , just saying......
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
This above !!!
KnittyNorah
Über Member
- Location
- The Frozen North (of England)
What is all this talk of IRONING?
That way disaster lies in the form of shiny iron-shaped patches wherever it has touched ... Iron the shirt, certainly - with starch if the mood takes you - as long as it's cotton or linen that is.
But the suit - STEAM.
Either hang it and use a purpose-built steamer, or lie it over a well-padded ironing board and hover an iron set on high steam over it, close but never touching.
If it's only got a few minor creases, hanging up in a really steamy bathroom works fine.
That way disaster lies in the form of shiny iron-shaped patches wherever it has touched ... Iron the shirt, certainly - with starch if the mood takes you - as long as it's cotton or linen that is.
But the suit - STEAM.
Either hang it and use a purpose-built steamer, or lie it over a well-padded ironing board and hover an iron set on high steam over it, close but never touching.
If it's only got a few minor creases, hanging up in a really steamy bathroom works fine.
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
- Location
- Land of confusion
Peter Salt
Bittersweet
- Location
- Yorkshire, UK
That's all sorted for ya:
fair weather cyclist
Guest
Sometimes when I see this sort of photos I ask myself what that person was thinking in that precise moment.
Maybe he was a model with some career aspirations and he was asking himself "how the hell did I end up having to wear this garbage? Where did it all go wrong for me?"
Maybe he was a model with some career aspirations and he was asking himself "how the hell did I end up having to wear this garbage? Where did it all go wrong for me?"
I cycled to be the best man & wedding singer at a wedding last year so needed a suit and an acoustic guitar. My trip though involved an aeroplane and 120 miles from the airport to the venue. I had my accommodation booked separately and after arranging all the flight details and how I was going to bring a bike on the plane and build it on arrival, I went to my local bike shop (Mango Bikes) and bought a bike box off of them for £10. I put the guitar, suit, shoes, another change of clothes and a few other bits in the bike box, taped it up and cycled it down to the post office on the back of my tandem and posted it to the house of the groom via SenditNow for £12. As I wasn't sure what shape the suit would be in, I asked if they'd get it dry cleaned for my arrival since they weren't paying for suit hire or anything actually for me. The week after I boarded the flight with my hybrid, rode the 120 miles along the south coast of England over 24 hours - with a wee sleep in a B&B in the middle and arrived the day before the wedding to suit up and tune up.
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Suit bag intended for train travel placed in the top bag of triple rear panniers and nothing placed on top of it. It will shake a bit but rarely crease as much as when you sit wearing the thing.
