Gamer chic wedding

So as stated in the last blog I am now a Mrs. I now fall into a new tax bracket, have a new last name and will now be the prime suspect should anything happen to the Mr, because I don't have a maid to pin it on.

We met seven years ago through my father's D&D group and since that's how we met we figured that's what the 'theme' of the wedding should be. (I really wanna know who thought weddings needed a theme? Wasn't it enough that you were spending a shit ton of money on booze to make people get up and do the Chicken Dance?) So with that in mind we set out to create the nerdiest wedding possible.

Step One-Screw flower centerpieces

Everyone does flowers and they cost you almost more than the bar tab. However instead of a hangover you just have lots of dead flowers the next day that you either pitch or give to an old folks home. *Classy*

What we ended up doing was finding small wooden treasure boxes. My husband and father in law stained and painted them and we filled them chocolate coins, little Hershey treasures and sugar candy that looked like gems. So if they wanted to snack after the dinner and cake they still had some chocolate at the table. Plus people could take the box home and have something sort of useful unlike dozens of dying red roses. We put the chest on top of some Gaming paper that is normally used for doing in game battles. If anyone had wanted to run a game at there table all they needed was the minis because we also provided the dice and the pencils.

Step Two-Oh you gave us matches so I can burn this hell hole down.

Being gamers we knew the standard favors weren't going to wow anyone. (Oh boy you got us a heart shaped cork screw that will break the second time I use it) So we decided to get 6 sided dice with our names and the date of our reception along with the pencils that could be used after the wedding for our gamer friends. Even our non-gamer friends liked our pencil favors and they thought the dice favors really cool.

Step Three-Entertainment is key.

Gamers don't dance...well maybe after the bar is almost finished you may get them to do YMCA but it really just looks like a someone having a seizure on the dance floor. So with that in mind we had a game table set up off to the side so if people wanted to play board games we had them handy.

We also got some serious nerd music played. We needed a song for the garter toss and original my husband wanted this song from Star Trek.



However the DJ called me two days before the wedding and told me he couldn't find it anywhere...so what else could replace this...



Yes...yes I played Star Wars music at my wedding, people had to catch the garter to Duel of Fates. Other than playing Weird Al's-White and Nerdy I don't what else I could have done. Well wait I could have bought those light sabers and had people actually duel for the garter. But than I would of had to cut back on the bar and that wasn't happening.

Here are the sites were we got some of our wedding stuff

http://www.stainedglasscandy.com/Index.htm
These guys had the candy gems and they are FTW

https://www.writeonpencils.com
We got the pencils here.

http://www.chessex.com/
A true gamer would know to get dice here.

http://thejournalguy.com/index.html
Instead of a normal guest book we had our guest pass this a journal from table to table so they could also write messages.

http://www.dahou.com/Unfinishedbox.htm
I can't remember exactly where we got the boxes from but these guys seem to offer a similar design.