Hi folks,

Anyone ever attached ribbons for a wedding car?

I'm ushering at a wedding and while the bride is coming in her limo, I'm charged with delivering the groom in my car. (Occy Mk2 Pre FL vRS, if it makes a difference!)

The bride/groom want all the vehicles (limo, parents' cars etc) to have matching ribbons so I'm sorting it out... Anyone done it before? Can anyone offer me practical advice?

(There are practical reasons too- we have an arrangement that parking attendants will leave the cars with ribbons have preferential spaces. Saves explaining on the day.)

The radiator looks far enough back from the front grille for it to be unlikely to cause any hazard (I hope...), but are there any other safety things I haven't thought of?

Ta muchly,

thinkblueskies

:-)

Last time I did it I tied one end of the ribbon to the sunvisor bracket on the drivers side, through the door, down to the bonnet centre bracket, then back to the passenger door and that side visor bracket. The fun job was getting it flat!!

I did it with my 7 series for Monika's brother's wedding taking him along. BMW kidney Grill is similar to the octy in that it has the black vertical slats you just pop the ribbon round the back of the centre slat.

Attaching to the A pillars was harder, tieing to the wing mirrors was no use because when the door opens the ribbon drops. Popping in the windows and jamming in the leccy windows no use at all.

Ended up cutting a short tongue shape at the end of the ribbon and doubling back on itself then a small bit of duct tape to pin the tongue down -- with the ribbon being bent back double over the tongue / tape with a sharp crease, it just looked like the ribbon was stuck by magic to the a-pillar.

Tape on paint is kinda risky though, i took some of the tack out of the tape by taping it to my trousers once then peeling off, that cut the tack down a bit.

I also did this on my 3 series BM, through the middle part of the grille (then overlapped so the ribbon started off in a tight V) under the door seals and tied to the sun visors.

HOWEVER despite only travelling a total of around 6 miles with the ribbon attached, the ribbon still marked the paintwork on the bonnet - not a lot but it was there! so ideally you want to make sure the ribbon does not come into contact with the paintwork (the chrome grille may be enough to keep it off the paintwork?)

Cheers everyone!

I'll bear all that in mind.

I once used my car to transport the bride, as she asked me if they could use my car for their big day. I tied the ribbon to the pillar on the sunvisor on one side of the car and then worked it through the grille and tied the other end to the other side sun visor pillar. I hung it quite loose at first. I did this so that I could put some doube sided sticky tape to the door frame, where the seal sits aganst, where the ribbon would be going at the height I wanted it. Hope that makes sense.