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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."
The renaissance-theme wedding with 60+ guests in full costume, or my wife making a renaissance wedding website shortly there-after. Or making renaissance-theme jewelery + website shortly after that. But of course, I suspected she was a geek before we married.
What were you expecting?
I can't remember where I saw this mentioned (Fark maybe?), but here's some frightening pictures of a Klingon Wedding. *shudder*
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Strange you should mention that, but I used to have lots of friends who were girls, many more than males. You could have far better, deeper conversations with them and they were often more open-minded.
When I was at school, I used to sit beside all the girls in class because they were very lovely and also well-behved so you could get peace and quiet to get on with learning stuff. I was the only boy in my physics class to get an A. The rest all failed except for a couple who got Cs.
As one gets older, and people pair off, friendships with the opposite sex decline and fade. I've lost some of my best friends in recent years.
Stick Men
Actually I'm posting on /. from a laptop while sitting right beside her. If you'd read any more of my journal/posts you'd know I am online at night while she sleeps (when she does)-
And apart for the six 'critical' hours I was away for that damn server problem, I haven't been away from her for more than 20 min *ever* in the past month or so.
So yeah, I'd like to think I'm trying to "do the right thing" -
"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams."
I think it was April 26th, 1999, or shortly after. My fiancée and I were discussing when we should get married. My sister had a wedding coming up as well and we didn't want our weddings to conflict. I was thinking about this User Friendly comic and said "Well, we can eliminate May 19th, or none of our friends will be there."
My fiancée responded, "Well, we could have it May 19th, if we had it at the theater. . . ."
Went down and asked the local Edwards theater manager if we could have the wedding May 19th in the lobby. He had to check with Mr. Edwards himself, but we got the ok. People were already in line outside the theater.
I called the state for what was required to officiate a wedding. They referred me to the Universal Life Church, which I found offered on-line ordination. So I instant messaged a friend of mine at work and he went and got his ordination real quick, printing his certificate out at work (I think it still hangs in his cubicle). He agreed to dress as Qui Gon Gin and quote Yoda in the ceremony ("Do, or do not. There is no try.")
A friend of mine volunteered his for his wife, a very talented seamstress, to make our costumes. We set out to find the assorted props and such that we would need to complete the experience. I picked up a toy Han Solo blaster from Toys 'R Us. It was made of orange plastic. I used a black magic marker to color it black, adding a few highlights and scuffs.
We camped out overnight the last day, night and day before tickets went on sale. My boss gave me time off since he knew it was for getting hitched and all. We bought tickets for the first show after 5pm on the 19th (although a lot of the guests went to the midnight one too), so the most people could attend.
Everyone was in costume. I was Han Solo, she was Princess Leia and Darth Vader gave her away, Chewbaka was my best man while Boba Fett looked on. Jedis, with their lightsabers drawn, lined the isle. The ceremony music from the end of Episode 4 filled the lobby for the wedding march, and after the wedding we played the original celebration music from the end of Episode 6.
Then the manager let us all go straight to the theater to get good seats for the movie. No standing in line outside necessary (which some people had been doing all week). We lined up outside the theater while they finished cleaning it up. My wife and I walked down the line of guests and shook their hands. A reverse wedding line is much more efficient then a traditional one.
I ran to use the restroom before the movie started, and I ran into a guy who saw I was dressed up and said Did you hear someone got married out in the lobby?
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> Still, it really rubs be the wrong way to think that people can be so into this that they will taint an important day like that with it.
Oh, I bet you're the life of the party.
It's *their* day -- they want to have *fun*. Who are you to dictate to other people how they should live their life?! So it appears silly to you -- tough. That is their decision to make, and we must respect it, even if we don't agree with it.
I don't see a rule or law where it says if you do someing serious, it can't be fun at the same time. In fact, I see the exact opposite - if you love what you do, you'll never work a day in your life.
Peace
Fascinating stuff you've written. I suppose you do have the right to critique my 10-minute hack job:)
Good luck with everything!
I believe that this minority is actually a pretty conforming group. Sort of like the followers of Brian in The Life of Brian where in response to Brian's plea, "but you are all individuals!" the cultists all reply in unison, "yes we are all individuals" Rejecting tradition seems to be a tradition in and of itself.
Pretty widgets? What pretty widgets?
My wife and I said our vows in a traditional setting, but our reception was at Oriole Park at Camdem Yards in the right field warehouse. It was certainly more memorable than a typical hotel wedding reception.
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There's an underwater hotel in Key Largo with wedding packages. You have to scuba dive to get down to the hotel. The notary public dives down to perform the service. I've been wanting to stay at the hotel just for the experience, it sounds fun. It could probably get a little claustrophobic though.
Once, I got talking to a coworker about this. She said that she had anticipated this problem when she got married but they'd picked a venue to help them out. They got married on a small yacht with a maximum capacity of 17 passengers. When her Mom tried to add some out of state relatives to the list, she casually replied:
"Of course they're invited! But are you sure Auntie Debbie can tread water in her wheelchair?"
"Prepare for the worst - hope for the best."
Yup, that was the theme of my wedding. My wife stopped me at the black, monolith wedding cake though. It was large and rectangular, but white icing, alas. Sigh. But, my God, the reception hall was full of stars. :-) (No space suits - she nixed that one too)
The wedding was planned to happen in a park on the Saturday before Halloween. Tim arrived at the park in the radio station's Hummer from doing a remote show wearing his "The Tim Reaper" costume. It consisted of a skeleton unitard, a red satin cape, and devil's pitchfork. We were all stunned, but Jim explained he had brought his minister robes. He ran back to the Hummer zipped on the robe. We couldn't tell if he still had the unitard on because were distracted by the huge coffee stain on the front of the robe.
Despite all this, we were all happy our friends were married and domestic bliss was ensured. Then about 2 years later, my friend saw Tim at a local bar. Tim was telling another patron about marriages he had performed. He said he married a couple and forgot to file the papers for a year. My friend turned to Tim and said , "Hey, you married my wife and me two years ago." Tim quickly replied, "I know it wasn't you. I am pretty sure." ;-)