I love this. One of our environmental artists at Sparkplay got married recently and he and his girlfriend decided to create a videogame themed-wedding. They entered the outdoor wedding to the Halo theme, their cake involved Han, Leia, and Ewoks, and each table was themed after a different game, with each guest getting a unique placard with a video game character on the front and bio of the character on the back (they were Master Chief and Cortana). Guests even got some videogame-themed cookies to take home.
Congrats, Ben and Jillian!
Some of the pictures below!
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September 16th, 2008 at 8:01 am
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August 28th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
rootdown
Hah! That’s awesome. The presentation is not a half-assed afterthought, but it’s not overstated and tacky, either.
August 28th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
DMX
Uhm…not overstated and tacky? Yes, a wedding for the ages…jimminy freaking crickets!
August 28th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
Matt
Oh come on, don’t be mean. It was their wedding and it meant a lot to them to personalize it with interests they both share. I think it’s cool.
August 28th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
Ben
A good indication of how much people loved this: the next morning, we could only find 4 out of the ~75 placecards. Everyone else kept theirs as souvenirs. (I can’t even express how psyched our one friend was to get the exploding barrel from Doom)
August 29th, 2008 at 1:02 am
Monkey
I like bananas
August 29th, 2008 at 4:04 am
John
First of all, congratulations on your nuptuals!
I think the theme was remarkably cool.
I do have one question… Why the “Ewoks In The Trees” cake with the rest of the wedding being video game themed?
In my mind it breaks from the theme, although it is certainly in-line with the “geek factor” involved.
August 29th, 2008 at 5:43 am
Ben
Geek factor pretty much sums it up. Just fun stuff we liked!
August 29th, 2008 at 5:45 am
mike
John:
It doesn’t break the line, remember the flood of starwars games a few years ago? Battlefront had a ewoks level too…
August 29th, 2008 at 7:33 am
Meta
That is so awesome. Please show this to Jesse.
August 30th, 2008 at 8:01 am
Brett
This is amazing. The tables theme, combined with the game charecters is amazing. Its not just an after thought neither - ie the barrel in doom, as they have as much charecter sometimes as the doom people themselves. the cookies too, almost everyone will recognise those!!!!
October 30th, 2008 at 9:03 am
Ronald Watts
Saw two Matthews there.. Were you at the Doom or Alice table? Or had you already picked your card up?… Or is Matt not your real name? *eye*
January 23rd, 2009 at 5:09 pm
Vanessa
Where did you get the Sprites for the place cards, and the images for the table cards? Also how did you make the cookies?
January 23rd, 2009 at 5:11 pm
Matt Mihaly
Wasn’t my wedding I’m afraid, but a colleague’s.
January 28th, 2009 at 10:43 pm
Vanessa
do you know how they got the cookies done? I’m dying to do this for my wedding
January 28th, 2009 at 10:45 pm
Matt Mihaly
A friend of theirs happened to run a bakery, I believe, and did it for them.
April 1st, 2009 at 2:22 pm
Jessica
I’m tempted to steal your idea for my own wedding. It’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.
Although I’m not sure my boyfriend would be so eager, haha.
Congratulations, and you’re my heroes.