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What's Geekier Than a Ferengi Bridesmaid?
gbulmash asks: "The newly updated "Star Trek: The Experience" at the Las Vegas Hilton not only offers thrills, chills, and a Borg invasion... It's offering Trek-themed Wedding Packages. You can be married on a replica of the Enterprise bridge by a costumed starfleet officer and have additional Trek characters as guests. I thought "how geeky", but then remembered the guy who paid $22,550 for Joaquin Phoenix's white armor from Gladiator , claiming he was going to wear it at his wedding. All this has inspired me to ask what's the geekiest or nerdiest thing you've ever encountered at a wedding? There was a thread on geeky party favors for a wedding last year, but this question goes beyond that... getting married by a Gandalf impersonator, a cake shaped like Cthulu, groom dressed as Darth Vader and his best man is a stormtrooper. I know tales like these are out there, so please share them."
My dad married his second wife in Vegas, by an Elvis impersonator, on April 1st.
;)
It's brilliant: if he ever forgets his anniversary, he can just say: "you thought I forgot? April fools!"
Asking your girlfriend to marry you in front of millions of geeks around the world...
*ducks*
Stick Men
*ducks again*
Stick Men
You may now assimilate the bride. Or would the bride assimilate the groom?
But amusing none the less. I have a friend who attended a wedding where the groom's friends had a running inside joke that he was the cheap, miserly type. The wedding reception was typically lavish with all the trimmings except that at each place setting, under the silverwear - where McDonald's napkins. Got a good laugh out of everyone who knew the joke. The rest of the guests were a little perplexed though.
As for true geekdom at a wedding - closest thing I've seen is some of the groom's roleplaying buddies getting drunk and taking the microphone to tell anecdotes that happened in game. That was mortifyingly geeky but really had more to do with alcohol than actual geekdom.
Yeah, I saw The Simpsons last Sunday too.
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
...she may demand a Betazoid wedding instead, where no one wears clothing.
I thought "how geeky", but then remembered the guy who paid $22,550 for Joaquin Phoenix's white armor from Gladiator, claiming he was going to wear it at his wedding.
Sounds like he picked the right color to wear for his wedding.
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
You gotta be careful with that wording, my first though was, damn I didn't know Rednecks read slashdot and why would they wear a wizard costume??.
I didn't know Rednecks read slashdot and why would they wear a wizard costume
:o)
You misunderstood - if you prefixed the word wizard with the word grand, it all makes sense
Can we presume on the honeymoon Han fired first? =)
(I think star trek weddings are geeky in a very scary way, but that's a great wedding story that's geeky in a cute way.)
Asking the slashdot crowd...
In eleven minutes? That was quick.
I want my Cowboyneal
That said...if I ever do lose my mind and get married: Vegas. Elvis impersonator. Biker boots and a leather miniskirt. Then a wild night of drunkenness in which my groom and I frighten old ladies and wake up the next evening with no memory of what transpired. Ah, I have such a soft spot for fantasy weddings.
That wasn't a dream Britney!!!
I only look human.
My mother is a halfling and my dad is an ogre, so that makes me an Ogreling