Media Tour Final Stop: Before Getting Married, Kyle Busch Recommends Looking At The Bottom Of Your Shoes

In some ways, the NASCAR media tour is like summer camp: You get together with a bunch of people, take field trips all over the place and eat all your meals together.

And then, just like camp, it suddenly ends.

The media tour wrapped up with visits to Roush Fenway Racing and Joe Gibbs Racing today. Though we’ll have longer stories from both of those events in the coming days, we’ll share just one anecdote for now: Kyle Busch’s comments on his wedding.

Considering Busch’s hard-edged image, this was funny stuff. Here’s what Busch had to say:

I’ll tell you what the most nerve-wracking part of the wedding was: When you’re standing there (before the ceremony).

My brother started it, bringing my parents down the aisle. And right then, I was like, ‘Oh man. If this is this hard already, I can’t imagine what it’s going to be like when Samantha starts walking down.’

I started looking a little bit at everybody that was coming down, but then I looked up at the organ – trying to forget about it and put things in a different light.

And then the doors opened and she came out, and I was just like, ‘Oh...man.’ I knew I wouldn’t look like I sap, but I was just (telling myself), ‘Man, just don’t cry! Don’t make the pictures turn out like crap. Make the pictures look good!’

So I had a smile on and everything, and it was pretty awesome. It was a feeling I’ve never felt before. When you feel something like that, it changes quite a bit about what you’ve had happen and what you see happening for times to come.

It was the worst (nerves) I’ve ever felt, but yet it was the best feeling I’ve ever felt.

Of course, Kyle wasn’t feeling so serene about the second part of his story. Older brother Kurt Busch played a practical joke on Kyle, writing on the bottom of his shoes before the wedding.

Yeah, Kurt did. It was ‘HELP ME’ or something like that. As soon as we got to the church and we got up to the front and had to kneel for the first time – because it was a traditional Catholic wedding – I was like, ‘Oh, man! I forgot!’ Because I had a deal with my Toyota friends that I was going to put Toyota on the bottom of my shoes, and I had forgotten to do it.

Well, Kurt’s sitting in the audience just busting up laughing. And a couple of my guy friends were just looking at him like, ‘What are you doing?’

I hadn’t even looked. Who looks at the bottom of their shoes on their wedding day? I’ll give this advice to anybody else who ever gets married: Look at the bottom of your shoes before you put ‘em on, because somebody’s going to screw with you!