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What's Geekier Than a Ferengi Bridesmaid? 145

Posted by Cliff from the getting-carried-away-while-celebrating dept.
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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  • Not geeky, but kinda silly (Score:5, Funny)

    by Feztaa ( 633745 ) on Wednesday April 21, 2004 @02:49AM (#8926255) Homepage
    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!" ;)

  • Geekier than a Ferengi Bridesmaid? (Score:5, Funny)

    by azuroff ( 318072 ) on Wednesday April 21, 2004 @03:04AM (#8926322)
    Asking your girlfriend to marry you [slashdot.org] in front of millions of geeks around the world...

  • I'm at a loss for Ferengi jokes (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Kethinov ( 636034 ) on Wednesday April 21, 2004 @03:34AM (#8926441) Homepage Journal
    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 (Score:5, Insightful)

      by swillden ( 191260 ) * <shawn-ds@willden.org> on Wednesday April 21, 2004 @09:44AM (#8928152) Journal

      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.

      • Re:I'm at a loss for Ferengi jokes (Score:4, Interesting)

        by mwheeler01 ( 625017 ) <matthew,l,wheeler&gmail,com> on Wednesday April 21, 2004 @05:56PM (#8933945)
        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.

        • 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.

          I will never forget this moment.

          I was at a Pink Floyd concert at the Oakland Coliseum, some years ago. As is custom, people like to sing along with the songs.

          So imagine, the band wails "

    • Well, if I remember correctly (from an episode of DS9 I think), Ferengi females are always supposed to be naked. (The one in the episode wasn't, that's why a I "supposed to".)

      Granted, Ferengi are pretty ugly, and being female wouldn't help much...I'm sure someone could come up with a joke based on those facts.

      --Ender
    • This is not about defying tradition, it's about doing something that is meaningful to the people having the ceremony. Tradition is not something that's intended to prevent self-expression. Notice that in these weddings, there are still plenty of elements that are traditional.

      If you see this sort of thing as defying tradition, that says much more about you and the circles you move in than it does about people in general.

      I do think that in general, intelligent people are less likely to blindly follow tr

  • Geekier than that? (Score:5, Funny)

    by turgid ( 580780 ) on Wednesday April 21, 2004 @03:44AM (#8926474) Journal
    Not having a bride?

    *ducks*


    • Not having a friend who is a girl.

      • Re:Even Geekier (Score:5, Interesting)

        by turgid ( 580780 ) on Wednesday April 21, 2004 @09:46AM (#8928169) Journal
        Not having a friend who is a girl.

        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.

    • Not having a bride?

      I've been to several weddings like that. But I believe the correct term for that is "gay". At the last one I went to, there wasn't a geek in sight (myself excluded).

    • Re:Geekier than that? (Score:4, Funny)

      by gurgi ( 65908 ) on Wednesday April 21, 2004 @12:13PM (#8929919)
      Yep, I'm a man and married my boyfriend. I'm a systems admin; he is a programmer. We both love watching football, and we both weigh over 225 pounds. We are both major comptuer geeks. Life is great. We just go to show that stereotypes are often very, very wrong.
      • I used to wish I was gay because of the number of men who used to chat me up, but I wasn't. I never used to have much luck with women until I was in my late 20s. It used to be a standing joke with me and my friends: which bloke is going to chat old turgid up tonight. Also, when I was younger and thinner and wasn't going bald, drunk young men mistook me for a girl. The was this leering, drunk, sexist in Norwich a few years back. You should have heard the slaggin he got from his mates when they saw that I was

      • Re:Geekier than that? (Score:1, Funny)

        by Anonymous Coward
        Here's some stereotypes:

        Americans are fat.
        American guys like watching football.
        Computer geeks are gay.

        How exactly are these stereotypes wrong?

  • How about.... (Score:4, Funny)

    by turgid ( 580780 ) on Wednesday April 21, 2004 @03:47AM (#8926486) Journal
    ...a Ferranti [computer50.org] bridesmade?

    *ducks again*

  • Well, I asked my wife to marry me at the top of a ferris wheel... ...but at our reception, I juggled around her with a friend (juggling clubs).

    But now things are rough (see journal)
    • Ignore the AC, I hope that gets modded to Slash-hell. Best of luck with your trying time and I hope the days ahead brighten.

    • That's cool. My wife and I got married as the last act of a juggling show. After the "I do's", we walked through an arch of club passers. Everyone says that it was the most fun wedding they have ever been to.
    • Way OT, and probably ready to be modded redundant by now - Send her my "get well soon" wishes

  • Bill Gates and the Borg Queen (Score:5, Funny)

    by Gary Destruction ( 683101 ) * on Wednesday April 21, 2004 @04:12AM (#8926557) Journal
    You may now assimilate the bride. Or would the bride assimilate the groom?

  • Not exactly geeky (Score:4, Funny)

    by Inexile2002 ( 540368 ) * on Wednesday April 21, 2004 @06:44AM (#8927026) Homepage Journal
    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.

  • Ferengi Wedding (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Mmm coffee ( 679570 ) on Wednesday April 21, 2004 @07:44AM (#8927205) Journal
    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.

  • Whatever (Score:3, Funny)

    by Otter ( 3800 ) on Wednesday April 21, 2004 @07:48AM (#8927216) Journal
    Yeah, I saw The Simpsons last Sunday too.

  • What do you get a Ferengi-Elf mixed couple? (Score:3, Insightful)

    by AtariAmarok ( 451306 ) on Wednesday April 21, 2004 @08:16AM (#8927400)
    What do you get a mixed couple consisting of a Ferengi and an Elf? A set of Silmarils that they can sell to the highest bidder?

  • I'm not sure what's geekier... (Score:4, Interesting)

    by NickFusion ( 456530 ) on Wednesday April 21, 2004 @08:25AM (#8927466) Homepage
    The renaissance-theme wedding with 60+ guests in full costume, or my wife making a renaissance wedding website [avalonwedding.com] shortly there-after. Or making renaissance-theme jewelery + website [hyde-moyer.com] shortly after that. But of course, I suspected [bonfirenight.net] she was a geek before we married.
  • My friend made me a best man in his wedding, and his brother got a medieval costume from the local costume place... everyone else had their costume hand made. His costume came with skulls, spikes on the shoulder pads, and fake battle marks with blood. It was tacky...
  • She and her partner wanted a fairy tale commitment ceremony, with me to do the honors, on account of my Ministerhood I got out of the back of the Rolling Stone. There were elves, fairies, a dragon, the witch from Sleeping Beauty, pirates and more, in addition to my Gandalfesque outfit.
  • I have some friends whose wedding ended with the celebration march from the end of The Empire Strikes Back. Too bad they weren't dressed like C3PO and R2D2.

  • Wedding of Lt. K'Allen and 2nd Lt Torsha (Score:4, Interesting)

    by Gudlyf ( 544445 ) <gudlyf@NOspam.realistek.com> on Wednesday April 21, 2004 @09:26AM (#8927966) Homepage Journal
    I can't remember where I saw this mentioned (Fark [fark.com] maybe?), but here's some frightening pictures [b3ta.com] of a Klingon Wedding. *shudder*
  • Copied and pasted the funny wedding Klingon parts in epsiode 15x17 - My Big Fat Geek Wedding from my caption log:

    Look--there they are!
    They're going into multi-purpose room B.
    That room has a dry erase board.
    They could be doing anything in there. Anything.
    Edna, the klingons have a romantic saying: ( Speaks klingon click-clack-style )
    All: Aw...
    Roughly translated, it means "I would kill the children of a thousand planets just to see you smile."
    Aw... that is the most romantic thing I've ever heard, which is kin

  • Naked (Score:3, Informative)

    by Plutor ( 2994 ) on Wednesday April 21, 2004 @10:47AM (#8928841) Homepage
    Am I the only one who realizes that a Ferengi bridesmaid would have to be naked to be realistic? Female Ferengi aren't permitted to wear clothes!
    • You beat me to the punch! LOL. Imagine the poor ACTORS who are paid to portray a vulcan or a betazoid or what not. Gawd. "I sense great happyness and joy!"

      Hey, Mr. Vulcan! I've got a logic puzzle for you! But first, what is the 20th digit of Pi?

  • Making a joke of it (Score:3, Insightful)

    by kippy ( 416183 ) on Wednesday April 21, 2004 @12:09PM (#8929861)
    This is probably just me but I find all of this really mortifying and stupid. I'm a big geek. I can count in klingon and I know backstories of Star Wars characters that appeared on screen for 2 seconds.

    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. 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. Do you want to show pictures of that to your kids? Why not just dress up as clowns and get married by a hedgehog?

    Get silly at your reception but the idea of getting married with lightsabers or in elvish really gives me the creeps.
    • It's supposed to be a solem occasion.

      If you view this as solemn, maybe you shouldn't be getting married. It's not a death sentence, it's a day of celebration about something that should make you very excited and happy.
      • I am married and I did it without Vulcan ears, blaster pistols, wizards or trolls. We got hitched in a church. We made a promise to each other and God that we would be together. That's something meaningful and solemn and we couldn't be happier with our marriage.

        We then had a reception where we all got tipsy and silly. My groomsmen and I geeked out and everyone had a fun, carefree time.

        There are some things that you can take with a light heart and some things that you should take seriously. My wedding

        • Re:Making a joke of it (Score:5, Insightful)

          by Frizzle Fry ( 149026 ) on Wednesday April 21, 2004 @02:59PM (#8932122) Homepage
          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.
          • No one is saying that star trek should be involved in everyone's wedding.

            Actually, I am saying that.
            And I've just submitted a petition to Governator Schwarzenegger to that effect.
        • We got hitched in a church [...] We then had a reception where we all got tipsy and silly. [...] I can't imagine having something that important in my life being tied to some crappy '70s TV show

          So now you have something important in your life tied to some crappy, run-of-the-mill, just-like-everyone-elses event.

          Great if thats what you want, different strokes for different folks.
    • > 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 a
      • Dude, I'm not dictating, I'm just expressing my opinion that weddings themed after tacky sci-fi and fantasy stuff is depressing and pathetic. They are certainly entitled to do whatever they want but I'm also entitled to say that they have their senses of appropriateness and priorities way out of whack.

        Costumes and make-believe are for birthday parties and comic book conventions. Making promises free of goblins, robots and other silly shit is for weddings. Again, just my opinion.

        I'm all about going on r

    • Re:Making a joke of it (Score:5, Insightful)

      by dubl-u ( 51156 ) * <.ot.atop. .ta. .2107893252.> on Thursday April 22, 2004 @10:44AM (#8938769)
      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.
    • Amen brother!! I agree... This probably is why so many marriages end up in divorce. People don't take it seriously. It is a joyfull occcasion, but....

    • Re:Making a joke of it (Score:3, Insightful)

      by Suidae ( 162977 )
      Both my wife and I thought big weddings were dumb, particularly the kind where somebody has to spend thousands of dollars (screw the wedding, pops, buy us a house or something else useful).

      The decision to be married is important, how you express it to others doesn't matter.
  • A couple of my friends convinced me to get ordained so that I could marry them.

    And since I'm an actual geek, that counts, right?


    [Plug] If you need a non-religious 'minister' in Minnesota, Email me! I'm cheap!
    • Massachusetts has a one-day designation with which pretty much anyone can perform a legal wedding. You just need to get the paper work and a check to the governor ahead of time.

      We did the ole white dress/black tux thing, but I met the bride on a MUD and the officiant on a chat (which was pretty much just a MUD without the mobs) so we did have a certain geek quotient.
      • It's a little harder in Minnesota. You have to actually be ordained by an actual church (which is easy and free thanks to ULC [ulc.org]). You then have to get some official letterhead thinggie from the church and take it down to the licensing center, and pay $5.50.

        They did do a very nice white dress/tux thing. I guess I was the only non-traditional thing there (and even I was in a suit which I surprisingly liked).

        They didn't want some priest pushing them around, and she has something of a dislike for judges (fo

  • My Star Wars Wedding Story (Score:5, Interesting)

    by cybermancer ( 99420 ) on Wednesday April 21, 2004 @01:26PM (#8930972) Homepage

    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 [userfriendly.org] 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 [regmovies.com] 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 [ulc.org]. 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?

  • Wedding compromises (Score:4, Insightful)

    by Unknown Kadath ( 685094 ) on Wednesday April 21, 2004 @02:00PM (#8931455)
    Friends whom I would have sworn were going to get married in full SCA attire or dressed like Imperial Stormtroopers have gone meekly to the altar in white dresses and tuxes because of pressure from family and the spouse-to-be. The wedding is traditionally the province of the bride, and paid for by the bride's family, and many a foot has been put down about wedding details. I imagine conversations something like this:

    "Honey, I want to dress like Darth Vader for our wedding." "No, you don't, dear." "But I really--" "No. You. Don't. Dear." "...So, tuxedo with tails, then?"

    "And then the minstrels are going to go down the aisle--" "Wouldn't you rather have a nice, traditional wedding?" "Well, SCA is really important to us--" "I'm not paying for my daughter to be married in some medieval Halloween costume."

    I suspect many, uh, "creative" wedding plans have been scrapped in favor of domestic tranquility and financing. So when you do get a true geek wedding, it's because both partners are hardcore geeks (or one is very tolerant), and they are secure enough financially and in their relationships with their families to do things their way.

    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.

    -Carolyn
    • 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!!!
    • Not in the wedding, but when I proposed to my wife, I considered doing something spectacular. You know: skywriting a proposal in the clouds or putting up a billboard. That kind of stuff.

      Then the logistics of it hit me. We never really went to sporting events and she would probably be more embarassed than flattered at having her face televised on a stadium screen. Some fancy outdoors/banner thing was a possibility, but weather was getting tricky and I wasn't sure I could count on it. I considered havin

  • The groom in white? (Score:4, Funny)

    by HTH NE1 ( 675604 ) on Wednesday April 21, 2004 @02:05PM (#8931523)
    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.
  • A wedding I went to in college had the bride dressed in a nice white business-like dress, and the groom in blue jeans, cowboy boots, and a button down shirt with no tie. The rest of the wedding party was dressed in kind. This was held in the biggest one of the biggest Churches in Lubbock, Texas, with the family and friends of the bride and groom in full attendance.

    The bride's mother was not happy.
  • I submitted this "Ask Slashdot" item on April 2nd, well before the "My Big Fat Geek Wedding" episode aired, and it sat in "pending" status until now. Any resemblance to "The Simpsons" is coincidental.

    As for a Ferengi bridesmaid having to be naked, who says it has to be female? I know of at least one woman who had her gay male best friend be her maid of honor. And no, he didn't wear a dress. He wore a man's suit, but in the same color as the bridesmaids dresses.

    - Greg

  • When I was planning the music for our wedding last year, I set my "down the aisle" music to the theme from the Inner Light episode of ST:TNG. About a third of the guests caught the reference; the rest just wondered why we didn't use the traditional "Dum-dum-da-dum" (from Wagner's Lohengrin). I debated having our closing song be the Imperial March, but decided against it at the last minute ;)

  • What's geekier? (Score:1, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward
    Asking the slashdot crowd...
  • I would say proposing marrage on Slashdot [slashdot.org] is way up there.
  • My wife and I said our vows in a traditional setting, but our reception was at Oriole Park at Camdem Yards [mlb.com] in the right field warehouse. It was certainly more memorable than a typical hotel wedding reception.
  • After 2 years spent in Antarctica [gdargaud.net], what about a penguin cake [gdargaud.net] ?

  • underwater wedding (Score:4, Interesting)

    by cara ( 118378 ) on Thursday April 22, 2004 @09:44AM (#8938198)
    There's an underwater hotel in Key Largo [jul.com] with wedding packages [jul.com]. 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.
  • ...for our wedding, I used my PowerBook for a slideshow, cuing the intro music as we walked down the aisle (to Hendrix's "Purple Haze", no less!) (slight digression -- I'm a major Hendrix fan and my family and wife allowed me this one request for our wedding.)

    Said PowerBook also served as DJ, crossfading between our songs during the reception dance party, and even played our First Dance song. The PowerBook in turn, was plugged into the mixer, to some heavily amplified Marshalls. Who needs a DJ when you hav

  • Another NGJB (not geeky, just brilliant) (Score:3, Interesting)

    by Embedded Geek ( 532893 ) on Thursday April 22, 2004 @01:37PM (#8940833) Homepage
    Anyone who has organized a wedding knows that one of the most irritating parts is parents and siblings from trying to add guests that we didn't know. If you're paying, you can simply put your foot down, but it can lead to all kinds of family friction.

    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?"

  • two Ferengi Bridesmaids.

  • Almost a Halloween wedding (Score:3, Interesting)

    by pdrome4robert ( 532173 ) on Thursday April 22, 2004 @07:14PM (#8944856)
    In 1998, I had a friend that needed to get married in a hurry. It was something they were meaning to do but never got around to until his longtime girlfriend was expecting. His health insurance required them to be married at the time of the first doctor visit to cover the birth. So they looked around for the quickest local option in Springfield, IL. Turned out the "nutty sidekick" on the local "Morning Zoo" radio show was an ordained minister. This is the guy they would send out to do the crazy stunts. I'll call him Tim.

    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." ;-)

  • Come on, where's the Attention to Detail?

    LOL

    Dolemite
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  • A friend of mine walked down the aisle after finishing the cermenoy to the Imperial March. It was hilarious...

    --rhad

  • My wife's dog Sam, a beagle, attended our wedding. I led him down the aisle on a leash when I walked in, and had my wife's father look after him.

    He spent most of the ceremony trying to crawl under the seats to get out of the sun - it was an outdoor wedding on a warm day.

    Afterwards, he posed with my wife and I for some of our wedding photos.

  • Man, I missed this when it showed up (been working some 12 hour days). I got married 4/17 at a Peep Off wearing a tin foil hat. [pbase.com]

    But now this post has been up for days and only even geekier guys than me would be reading it.

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