As many as two dozen couples a day tie the knot at the Heart of Reno Wedding Chapel in downtown Reno. On Wednesday evening, Travis and Lori Wells emerged from the chapel as newlyweds, three days before the groom was to make his fourth ESPN Great Outdoor Games appearance in Log Rolling.

	Travis and Lori Wells tied the knot Wednesday evening, just three days before the groom was to make his fourth Games appearance.

The ceremony was efficient, with less than five minutes between the playing of "Here Comes the Bride" and the final pronouncement by the ordained minister: "By the power vested in me by the state of Nevada … ."

Ending with, "You may kiss your beautiful bride."

Travis obliged.

Photos were taken, first by the dozen or so assembled friends and family, with digital cameras, then by the chapel photographer. Travis and Lori's six-month-old son, Christian, began to fuss at the flashbulbs. Travis lent a crooked finger for Christian to chew on, and when that solution wore off, Lori popped a bottle in the baby's mouth.

Travis' younger brother, John, who's making his first Great Outdoor Games appearance in the Boom Run, sat near the back of the chapel in Adidas sneakers and a short-sleeved shirt and tie, with his fiancée, Valerie Ellesson. They're planning to wed next year, though it could be earlier if suggestions by John's dad are taken literally.

"There's still time, you two," Mike Wells told his younger son and his fiancée after the ceremony. "You might as well get it over with."

That was the logic that Travis and Lori followed when planning their marriage in Reno. They met at a friend's wedding in 1996, and have been living together for three years in Zimmerman, Minn. They'd been talking about getting married for a couple of years, so there was never much of a proposal, just a decision one day, walking around the Mall of America, to get a ring.

Informal as it was, the ceremony was in some ways just a formality.

"It seemed easy to do, get it all done in one shot, since we were going to be out here," Travis said. "We've been together so long that it won't be that big of a difference."

It would have been hard to imagine a more low-key ceremony. At one point, during the seating, someone asked, "Do we have a groom and bride's side?" Three or four replies came back, not quite in unison, "I don't think it matters."

After the I do's and the snapshots, Travis paid the bill with his Green Bay Packers Visa card and everyone headed back to their hotel for a buffet dinner, with a larger reception planned for back in Minnesota.

Still, the wedding day is huge. No butterflies?

"I was just trying not to laugh," Lori said. Then she and her new husband went ahead and did.