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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."
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.