A Speed-y wedding to remember

You could say they're the quintessential Sweet Home Alabama couple.

Him with his European flair trying to buff out her rough edges, and her with her Southern-fried frame of mind quick to dismiss his haughtiness. He considers himself to be cultured while she prefers remaining cantankerous.

But at the end of the day, these two crazy kids balance each other out and come together to make quite a spectacular pair.

They are Mr. and Mrs. Speed: the couple who may hold the record for the fastest wedding ceremony in all of NASCAR's nuptials.

Yes, the ceremony lasted a short 15 minutes, but now Scott Speed and his bride, the former Amanda Mathis, have an entire lifetime to delight in the joys of their matrimonial bliss set against the backdrop of NASCAR.

Through the sport is how the pair initially met. Amanda was handling public relations for Scott's former Truck Series team, Bill Davis Racing. A long friendship turned into a shorter courtship and Scott proposed at the end of last season.

Both Scott and Amanda, with their distinct personalities and penchant for all things outrageous, immediately began planning what turned out to be a wedding ceremony no one could forget.

Amanda gives Scott a face full of cake. Did he return the favor?

Why?

Because Speed was the proverbial flower girl, he sort of lost his pants, and the couple's first dance was to No Air by Jordin Sparks -- a Tiger Beat, American Idol-type and last artist you would think either Amanda or Scott would have playing on their iPods let alone their wedding.

"Normally, I would have done much better than that," Scott said. "That song is certainly not as pimp as some of the others I could've picked, but at the end of the day that really is our song. It played so much on the radio when we first started seeing each other, it really fits us and really it was the only song we could agree on."

That said, Amanda was bent on maintaining the authenticity of the evening and demanded The Imperial March (Darth Vader's theme song) be cued up just before the couple said their "I dos" and was pronounced husband and wife.

"We wanted to throw people off and once the ceremony was over we wanted it to be like, 'Ok, party on,'" Amanda said. (Continued)