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May they live long and prosper! Star Trek fan Pamela recently got assimilated married. Two wedding cakes graced the event, one a recreation of the starship Voyager and the other a Borg Cube. See another picture at Geeks Are Sexy. Link
An underwater wedding ceremony yesterday at the London Aquarium drew the attention of a turtle who came forward to object to the union of this man and this woman. Or maybe he just objected to the the couple trespassing in his territory. Or possibly he just wanted a bite of that delicious wedding dress! -via Buzzfeed
Here’s one distinct disadvantage of being a polygamist: your wives can gang up and beat the crap out of you!
You know you’re dealing with a special household when a domestic argument turns into a case of gang assault.
But witnesses in Pakistan say that’s what happened to polygamist Mian Ishaq, who was beaten up by his first and second wives for allegedly conducting a secret wedding with a fourth wife — and planning a fifth marriage.
Ishaq was reportedly attending a friend’s wedding reception with his third wife when his first two spouses, identified as Mehvish and Uzma, arrived with a score to settle, according to The Telegraph.
The wives showed up with relatives and reportedly began overturning tables and threatening Ishaq’s life, then attacked their husband with their shoes until police hauled them away.
Uzma told the press that her husband deserved to be beaten.
In order to make Jillian Sherlock and Nikhil Pereira’s wedding day as perfect as possible, the five bridesmaids kept quiet about the carjacking incident until after the ceremony was complete. A man who had broken into a house near the church in Boston was looking for a getaway, and the limousine carrying the bridesmaids looked like a possibility.
“He started fighting with the driver, and the girls got out and ran,” said Karl Kammann, a Buckingham Bus driver who had just dropped off 48 guests at the church. “It was chaos. Right out from under the wedding party! What a way to get married.”
Headed in the opposite direction on Columbia Road was Gerald Whelan, who was sitting in traffic when he spotted the man get into the limo.
“I saw the driver’s side open, and the driver struggling, half in and half out,” said Whelan, 61. “He started yelling, ‘Help me! Somebody help me!’ ”
The driver managed to get out, unharmed, and the limo disappeared down Columbia Road, only to be abandoned shortly afterward on West Fifth Street in South Boston as police searched for the wedding bandit.
The ceremony went on as scheduled while police cordoned off the area as a crime scene. Another limousine was summoned to carry the wedding party. Link -via Arbroath
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Psst! Wanna hear something neat? Bruce Campbell has just been ordained so this means … zombie wedding!
Our pal Geekscape has the details:
ZomBCon, the premiere zombie convention being held this Halloween in Seattle, is announcing today that newly ordained minister Bruce Campbell will be officiating a zombie wedding at the inaugural convention. While only one couple is going to be lucky enough to be married by Campbell, he will also be officiating a mass renewal ceremony, for those zombies that didn’t get to do it right the first time. He might be reading from the Necronomicon so be warned… There might be Deadite shenanigans.
Jeroen and Sandra Kippers of Brussels, Belgium were lifted on a platform by crane up 160 feet in the air for their wedding ceremony. They were joined by the officiant and about 20 guests. Another platform held the musicians. After the vows, they made it official by bungee-jumping over the side!
The company behind the nutty nuptials – Marriage In The Sky – have been inundated with requests from couples desperate to fling themselves off the end of the aisle.
But the ultimate thrill-seekers’ wedding doesn’t have to end there – once the wedding party have all been lowered back to earth, guests can head skywards again – for a floating reception.
Wedding guests are wowed with a three-course wedding breakfast – all while strapped in to the dining chairs.
The cost for such a spectacular? Around £25,000. Link -via Unique Daily
(Image credit: Marriage in the Sky)
Previously (from the same company): Dinner in the Sky
Broadway actor Lin-Manuel Miranda‘s got a little surprise planned for his newly wedded wife. Seems like everyone was in on it, except for the bride. Here’s what happened at the wedding: Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] – via metafilter. Mazel tov to the lovely couple!
Etsy seller swelser creates custom wedding invitations and save the date cards made to resemble vintage comic book covers! You can picture yourself as not only soon-to-be-married, but as a crime fighting adventurer as well. Link -via Rue the Day
In early 2009, Lynn France of Cleveland was looking for evidence that her husband was cheating on her. She had already caught him with another woman once, and had evidence that he wasn’t traveling to the places he claimed he was. So she typed the name of the “other woman” into Facebook’s search field.
Click. And there it was, the stuff of nightmares for any spouse, cuckolded or not. Wedding photos. At Walt Disney World, no less, featuring her husband literally dressed as Prince Charming. His new wife, a pretty blonde, was a glowing Sleeping Beauty, surrounded by footmen.
“I was numb with shock, to tell you the truth,” says France, an occupational therapist from Westlake, a Cleveland suburb. “There was like an album of 200 pictures on there. Their whole wedding.”
France began divorce proceedings after the discovery. So remember, Facebook is no place to practice bigamy. Link -via reddit
The years fly by so fast, don’t they? This is from the episode “Lisa’s Wedding” {wiki} which aired in 1995. -via reddit
Remember going to summer camp when you’re young? Now imagine that place as your wedding destination. Yes, that’s right: camp wedding is the hot new trend!
Instead of bridesmaids and groomsmen, there will be "head counselors" when Serena Orgel, 35, and Josh Young, 36, get married this September at Lake Bryn Mawr Camp in Honesdale, Pa. During the weekend festivities, guests will sing songs in a talent show and roast marshmallows at a bonfire. The newlyweds plan to paddle away in a canoe with a "Just Married" sign. Guest attire? "Camp chic," says the bride-to-be.
Sleep-away camps—where kids swim in chilly lakes, make macramé bracelets and aim their arrows at archery targets—are finding a new life in the off-season as the host of weddings, bar mitzvahs, 40th birthday parties and other events. Many facilities are remote and more rustic than what many people think of as their ideal weekend away. Guests can expect to sleep in bunk-beds, stow dresses and bowties in cubbies, and spray on bug spray instead of perfume.
Katherine Rosman of the Wall Street Journal has the story: Link
Previously on Neatorama: Bowling Alley Wedding
Paul Cassidy and his bride Vilma sure had a wedding to remember. I mean, how can anyone forget a day like this:
First, a 16-month-old page boy turned blue and collapsed in front of the bride.
He was recovering and on his way to hospital when the groom’s 76-year-old mother collapsed as the wedding photographs were being taken.
The paramedic team, which had helped the youngster, returned and she, too, had to be taken to hospital.
Minutes later, a guest received a text saying her father had died.
At the reception, the couple’s toddler son cut his head after a glass cover fell on him, followed hours later by their daughter cutting her head open.
Then as the day was winding up, the groom, setting off to see his mum in hospital, found his car was locked in a secure car park.
Twenty-eight-year-old Rachel Sifuentes is getting married and like for many of us, money is tight. But in Rachel’s case, creativity is not in short supply. When the going gets tight, the frugal get going to the bowling alley to get married:
Rachel Sifuentes and her husband held their January wedding at Lucky Strike Lanes, a bowling alley in Orange, California.
The alley’s "nightclub lounge" feel with contemporary furnishings and rock music was perfect, Sifuentes said. And the best part was the professional even planner that was included at no extra charge in the couple’s large party package.
Total cost for the reception: $4,340
Stephanie Chen of CNN has more about how some newlyweds beat the bad economy with a healthy dose of creativity:
Sifuentes’ bowling alley wedding in January may not have been traditional, but the creative ceremony saved her thousands of dollars at a time when wallet tightening has become necessary for many American families. Her offbeat wedding is representative of a growing trend, wedding experts say, as brides are discovering cheap can be chic, and also inspire innovative party ideas.
"Necessity breeds ingenuity," said Ariel Meadow Stallings, a writer who runs the online bridal site Offbeat Bride.
She explains what has ushered in the recent trend of frugal yet creative brides: "It’s the combination of the economy with the fact that through the ’90s, there was a big explosion of the wedding industrial complex."
Link | More at Offbeat Bride
Wait for it… wait for it… and let’s hope he has a backup camera. -via Digg
When Marvin Hunter and Kim Silver of Martelle, Iowa, got married, they decided to incorporate their love of bow hunting into the wedding ceremony:
The bride looked lovely, if a little hard to see against the wooded backdrop, in her silk Mossy Oak dress ordered off the Internet from a firm in Alexandria, La. The groom, in camo pants and shirt, likewise blended well with the setting.
Their vows and the ceremony were for the most part traditional, though they were conducted atop the club’s outdoor shoot ing platform and punctuated at times by Hunter and Silver firing arrows into three-dimensional targets.
From The Gazette Online: Link
April Pignataro and Michael Curry of New York City got married yesterday. The bride wore a white wetsuit and the groom wore a traditional black wetsuit as they climbed inside a 120,000 gallon shark tank to take their vows at Atlantis Marine World in Riverhead, N.Y. Both are experienced divers, and said their “I dos” over a radio transmitter with an officiant who did not get in the tank.
“My mom was against it,” Pignataro said. “She was concerned that my makeup and hair were going to get messed up in the water. But . . . I’m a tomboy. Hair and makeup don’t mean a whole lot to me.”
Link -via The Huffington Post
What would could be a more perfect confection for a Star Wars than this AT-AT Wedding Cake with Ewok Cupcakes! The cake was made by pastry chef Teresa Ulrich and the details on it are intricate and amazing, although one commenter pointed out continuity problems as “there is no evidence to indicate that Admiral Ackbar or Mon Mothma were
ever in Hoth”.
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Rachael Robinson of Toft, Lincolnshire, England married Duncan Turner while they were on vacation in Canada. For the ceremony, she wore a dress made completely of recycled materials, including 13 feet of bubble wrap!
Primary school teacher Rachael originally had the white dress made for her by parents of pupils for a term time recyclable materials fashion show last month.
But when fiancé Duncan popped the question while on holiday in Canada days later, she knew exactly which dress she would be wearing for the official ceremony.
The dress is made from sheets of carefully stitched bubble wrap, attached to an inner cloth lining, and finished off with white foam packaging material and Haribo sweets.
The couple had a second, more traditional ceremony for the families back home in England. Link -via Unique Daily
Engaged geeks Dale Larson and Laura La Gassa commissioned artist Yiying Lu to make their wedding invitations. Lu is best known as the creator of Fail Whale, once used extensively at Twitter. Since the wedding invitations are the opposite of fail, this design is called “Win Penguins.” Link -via Laughing Squid
Sean Murtagh of London, England was scheduled to marry Natalie Mead of Brisbane, Australia surrounded by family and friends in England. They had a civil ceremony in Australia already, and were on the way to the big British ceremony when they were stranded at an airport in Dubai due to the volcanic ash cloud that cancelled many European flights. Instead of canceling the wedding, they were married via Skype! Assembled wedding attendees in Ealing, west London, watched the couple take their vows aided by a laptop and a webcam at the airport.
Natalie Mead told Gulf News: “Passengers stranded in the hotel were getting excited for the first time in days when they heard about our wedding; some even helped me with my hair and make-up. It was also great to see everyone in the UK on our wedding day, even if it was via webcam.
“It has been an amazing day and we are just so grateful for everything that everyone has done for us. It is definitely a story to tell the grandchildren. There was no way we were going to let this volcano stop us [from] getting married.”
Caroline Black, a celebrant who conducted the online ceremony from London, said: “It was just like any other wedding except the bride and groom weren’t there.”
The airport donated flowers and a wedding cake for the celebration. Link -via Bits and Pieces
Josh and Ting Li of New York City got married on Valentine’s Day inside an Apple Store, in honor of the company that makes their favorite products:
The pair, who met in the Apple store, had their priest dressed as Steve Jobs, the company’s chief executive, read their vows from their iPhones, while the rings were tied to a ribbon wrapped around a first generation iPod.
Part of their vows included a passage from the Apple CEO that said: “You have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down.”
Mrs Ling, dressed in a strapless wedding dress, had her vows written on a card that said “I love you more than this” followed by a picture of an iPhone.
Jeff Wong and Erin Martin are about to get married, but sending out regular save the date notices won’t work for this couple. No siree!
So they opted for this instead: the Epic Wedding Trailer.
Watch and weep: Link [embedded YouTube]
A woman named Lukka Sigurdardottir made this edible wedding dress. Or, alternatively, a wearable wedding cake.
Link via Digg | Image: Gather and Nest
We’ve covered a whole lot of strange crimes here on Neatorama, but this one takes the (wedding) cake: when Nadia Clay and Terrance Simmons tied the knot, their best man pulled a gun and robbed the DJ … at the wedding reception!
"He steps back, takes it [the gun] and then shoots it in the air," said Kendrick Shepherd, the wedding DJ. "And then comes and pushes me, grabs it and runs out the door and I’m like, did that just happen?"
Shepherd said the suspect grabbed an expensive crystal decanter full of liquor and fled.
Nearly two months later, police haven’t been able to find the gun-toting best man.
The couple claimed that they didn’t know who the best man was. Well, weddings are expensive, or perhaps the music sucked … Link
Photo: michelle.hayes [Flickr]
Who says that wedding gowns have to be white and traditional? Check out these fantastic photos of Liz and Dave’s roller skating-themed wedding by photographer Michelle Hayes: Link
More colorful wedding photos at COLOURlovers – via Rue The Day
Dana Hanna of Abingdon, Maryland updated his Facebook relationship status at the altar, immediately after the presiding pastor declared the marriage. In The Los Angeles Times, W.J. Hennigan writes:
Hanna explains on YouTube that he did it for laughs and that the gag was a surprise to everybody in attendance except the minister. This would explain his wife’s look as he pulled “his” and “hers” cellphones from his tuxedo pockets.
“This was just done to be funny — we really don’t Facebook THAT often ,” he wrote on YouTube. “I have a lot of family scattered around the country and we all use Facebook a lot to keep in touch.”
You can read Hanna’s full explanation at the YouTube link.
Link via CollegeHumor
Maureen Alarid of Off Beat Bride created this invitation for her wedding, featuring Admiral Ackbar’s prudent advice about marriage. Alarid writes:
The wording [on the back] is my favorite part. It reads: ‘[We] request the honor of your presence as two geeks save the princess, resist the dark side and pledge their lives (extra, or otherwise) to each other.’ And we snuck a Hyrulian crest in there too!
Link via Geekologie
Luis Diaz Santis and Magaly Guerrero Ramierz sent out invitations to their wedding depicting themselves as 8-bit characters in a two-player combat video game. Chris Jacob of Gizmodo suggests that this is a subtle social commentary on modern marriage. Either way, it’s cool, and you can view a picture of the groom proposing in binary at the link.
According to The Empire Strikes Back, there’s no smell in the galaxy as bad as the inside of a dead Taun Taun. When Chris and Julia Trevas got married, they hired Food Network baker Courtney Clark to make the cakes. The groom’s cake was in the shape of a dead Taun Taun, complete with Luke Skywalker inside! I would guess the authentic smell was not included. Link -via Boing Boing
(image credit: mod4)
Noble used the opportunity of shooting a zombie movie last spring in order to propose to Claudia. Claudia was willing to help on the movie, but she had no idea the whole thing was staged for her benefit (the rest of the 20-person crew all knew). She said yes, which led to an October wedding complete with a Zombie Wedding Cake. Read more about the proposal at the YouTube link. -Thanks, Noble!
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