SUMMIT COUNTY - At the Pedal and Bean Flower Shop in Breckenridge, after 17 years in the business, owners Stacy and Dina Sanchez will tell you when it comes to weddings - anything can happen and you have to be able to adapt.
"You have to be able to adjust on the fly," Stacy Sanchez said.
They are adjusting abilities that will be put to the test on Aug. 27, when they expect a busy day of weddings just as the USA Pro Cycling Challenge rolls into Summit County. It will line the streets with tens of thousands of fans and close roads in the afternoon.
"They are expecting road closures on Highway 9 and certain exit and on ramps of I-70, so we will have to adjust our travel routes," Stacy Sanchez said.
For the flower shop employees, the race will mean leaving early in the day to avoid road closures and, for one client, it's already meant moving her wedding day.
"We have a small wedding that was planning on getting married Saturday the 27th on Sapphire Point," Stacy Sanchez said.
That bride had hoped to get married high atop Swan Mountain Road, but that road will be closed during that stage of the bike race, meaning that bride has to beat the fastest riders in the world to that spot by speeding up her wedding and bumping her big day from Aug. 27 to Aug. 26.
"She was great about it, which I don't think all brides would be great about it, but she was," Dina Sanchez said.
Dina and Stacy Sanchez say their clients are adapting well, but still worry about out-of-town wedding businesses that may get caught in the traffic on their way up.
"Anyone coming from Denver doing a wedding up here needs to really get on the road early," Dina Sanchez said.
So Stacy Sanchez is busy updating the flower shop website by putting up the latest road reports and event links all in one place to try and keep people clued in.
"We have a website and blog that I just put up information (http://blog.petalandbean.com/), which talks about the when where and how of the event," she said.
Given the excitement around the race the two might even try to take a break and watch the racers as they pass near Keystone and they hope by providing budding information they can also help make everyone's race day smell as sweet as the flowers in their shop.
"Power is information and information is power, and we are trying to disperse that as best we can," Stacy Sanchez said.
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