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."

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I'm at a loss for Ferengi jokes

[Kethinov]

First paragraph offtopic. I've seen every episode of Trek since The Cage and I eagerly await today's Enterprise new episode "Damage" with glee. But despite having seen close to a thousand episodes of Trek, I'm at a loss for words trying to come up with a good Ferengi joke! So I'll just be serious instead.

People hate tradition these days. The evidence is all around us. Religion becoming less popular, holidays and birthdays being chores and not celebrations, family reuinions being avoided, social events feared and loathed, etc, etc, etc.

So it's no surprise that the ceremony of marrying a man and a woman is being looked at the same way. People want to defy tradition. What better way to defy tradition than to get married in the most odd manner possible?

Of course many people are content to just get married without a ceremony, or with a tiny one. And some people are content to just follow tradition because they have nothing better to do.

Re:I'm at a loss for Ferengi jokes

[swillden]

And some people are content to just follow tradition because they have nothing better to do.

And some people follow tradition because they find it meaningful and important.

The premise of your argument, that everyone hates tradition, is faulty. There is a segment of the population that feels this way, but they're a definite minority. You, personally, are probably deeply embedded in this minority and see it as the whole world. It's not.

Ferengi Wedding

[Mmm coffee]

In the Ferengi culture, females are not allowed to wear clothing. If your bride to be has the balls (no pun intended) to go through with a traditional Ferengi wedding, then you truly are marrying a goddess.

In related news, please invite me to your wedding. Thanks.

Re:Recent marriage

[geoswan]

Coward wrote:

Your wife has leukemia and you're posting on Slashdot? Don't you see anything wrong with that? Isn't there somewhere you need to be, someone that you should spend every possible minute with because they might not have many of them left?

From the journal...

for the past four weeks I've slept in a chair in the hospital...

So cut the poor guy some slack. I hope he tells his wife slashdotters say, "get well soon" -- instead of thinking about how some coward tried to make him feel even worse than he felt before.

Re:Making a joke of it

[Frizzle Fry]

I can't imagine having something that important in my life being tied to some crappy '70s TV show or some board game played by sweaty, greasy teenagers.

If you have those sorts of opinions of star trek or of whatever (I don't like star trek), then obviously it shouldn't be part of your wedding. No one is saying that star trek should be involved in everyone's wedding. But there are people for whom these are important. They are large parts of their lives and their identities. So they would rather have them as parts of one of the most important days of their lives than just something that is foreign and meaningless to them, like a "promise to God". Just because people want to incorporate things they care about into their wedding doesn't mean that they care less about their vows than you or that marriage isn't important to them.

Re:Making a joke of it

[dubl-u]

I mean really, you're making a promise to spend your life with someone and they basically make a joke of it. Why would you do that? It's supposed to be a solem occasion.

Supposed to be solemn? Sez who? When you get married, you're welcome to have whatever wedding you want, of course. But I think it's more important that weddings be serious and meaningful to the participants. Serious doesn't have to mean traditional, boring, or solemn.

A friend of mine got married a few years back. He is a delightful, creative freak, as are many of his friends. A traditional, solemn wedding would have made him and his friends miserable. Why would they dedicate their lives to making interesting art and causing lively trouble, only to pretend otherwise on their wedding day?

Answer: they wouldn't. As with everything else they do, they took traditional answers and shook them up. They had a wedding that was serious, heartfelt, and quirky, filled with love and laughter. It might have been their wedding but it was also their wedding.