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I think it's adorable. A lot of things like "heart of gold" and petunias wouldn't even come off as geeky. The towel might be a little much without an explanation though...maybe you could have a different favor wrapped in terrycloth? In any case, people will go with it. It's your wedding after all!
I love Hitchhikckers, but sooo many people haven't read it (which makes me sad). I think you're seriously on the right track for it though :)
I haven't read the book (shame on me!) But I don't think it's too geeky! I'm having a HARRY POTTER wedding for goodness sake. I think we're on an equal level lol.
My mom kind of laughed and rolled her eyes, but once I explained to her that I'm not gonna have Gryffindor banners or anything, she was really supportive.
Everyone else has been really good about it. My grandma is PUMPED, and all of my friends that I'm close to are crazy excited to see how it all turns out.
As soon as I came up with the idea, I was sold. There's a thread about it hanging around somewhere on here, and everyone has been super helpful with giving me more ideas!
I think the most important thing to remember is that it doesn't really have to be an all-out theme. I like to call mine "inspired" rather than themed. We'll definitely incorporate a lot of aspects from the books/movies, but it The goal is that people who have read the books will love the effort that we put into the details, but the people who haven't will just think it looks like an elegant wedding.
The important thing is that you have a wedding that represents YOU! If you're geeky, don't be scared to represent! Lol.
Hope I helped!
well, i have seen some cute towel favors that look more wedding mainstream. they have them done up looking like desserts. however, they aren't cheap. i didn't want to spend a lot of money on favors, but we will see.
We are also planning to do up comic book action figures as our cake toppers. FI is a fan of Ironman, so that would be for him and then he found the Black Widow for mine. I also like Doctor Who, so I thought it would be cute to do up something with the Tardis(police box) for a card holder box. that may be just too much going on, though.
@Miss Fish: actually, yes I did see your previous post. I love Harry Potter, but FI refuses to read them. He has watched the movies with me, though. I think you said that you were having your wedding reception at an Italian restaurant and you could have the long tables like in the great hall of Harry Potter, right?
You have helped. I am just trying to figure it all out and I still have just under 6 months, but need to get it figured out soon, that's for sure.
you should check out offbeatbride.com there are several brides on their who have done sci-fi type themes and I think their weddings look pretty cool. Do what feels right for the two of you.
http://offbeatbride.com/2009/12/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-program
@calico61979: Yep, that's me! It's the restauraunt's banquet hall, though, since the logistics inside the restaurant just wont work for that many people. And your FI is missing out!!
I think that if you want to do something, you should go for it. I like the idea you have for your programs!
Its not geeky at all, it's cute and fun, and mostly.. it's personal to you and your FH. There are so many people out there trying to create weddings that look like they've come straight from a magazine and have to be perfect in every way, without any personality or hints of the bride and groom in. I think it's a great idea x
I love it! Could you have a whale falling somewhere too?! I thought our wedding might turn out a bit like this, but in the end we realised that we wanted to keep a lot of traditional elements. I'm still hoping to include a few geek bits here and there :)
I think this sounds AWESOME, but I'm a pretty huge Douglas Adams fan. It is possible that a lot of people just won't get it, but the way you described it sounds subtle and tasteful enough that it shouldn't really be an issue. I love your idea for the programs, and the bowl of petunias. :)
DOOOO IT! that would be awesome! I love awesome themes like such!
I think its great! My FI and I are really taken by the universe and how it works, thus we might be encourperating that into our theme (Black/white and modern/contemporary) which it not very hard. We will be doing lots of glass spheres... naming our tables after things like "super massive black hole" "quasar" etc.. SO... I guess I am maybe not the best person to judge on geekyness.. but I think the most important thing is that it is individual to you and your FI and it sounds like it def will be :)
@RainStorm: the whale might be a little much, but don't think it didn't cross my mind.My FI asked if he could wear a robe. I told him no. that's a little much as well.
I have been watching the BBC version of Hitchhikers Guide, so I might get some more ideas.
Thanks to all of you bees for your encouraging words. The more I have thought about it today, I think it can be done to do a hitchhikers guide inspired wedding reception, but not be too weird for my traditional family.
OH I love the idea of a HP wedding!!!!!!
Totally awesome!! I keep threatening to have a world of warcraft wedding but I know that would be way too much for my family to handle! lol
Personally I think what you have described above is perfect and not at all geeky! This is your wedding go ahead and enjoy it! It should reflect the two of you and your life together!!
:)
Nope, not too geeky at all!!! I say go for it!!!! Also, hasn't anyone seen the MOVIE??? I went to the theater with a friend when it came out and we currently own a copy. It's AWESOME!!!! I haven't read the book, but he has. And according to him (and he's REALLY picky about this stuff) it sticks to the book pretty well.
My FI and I are total movie nuts/geeks/gamers and we're having a fantasy themed wedding. The entire wedding party will be in costumes, including us and (hopefully) the officient! They (and the guests) can come as ANY fictional character they want. :) (Plus, it saves me the hassle of trying to figure out what style/color dress for all the girls to wear, lol).
We're hoping to give dice in little treasure chests to the kids for their "favors" and having shot glasses for the adults. I even did up a few guestbook sheets that WERE going to be used for the guestbook, except we decided to nix them. The guest sheets? They were going to be like character sheets used for AD&D (advanced dungeons and dragons).
i think the theme is so cool ( and props on the harry potter one too) I don't think it is geeky and if people don't get it they will ask and all you have to say it is from the book that we love. than they will more than likly love it. i think book and movie themed wedding are the best it show peple who you really are more than just picking some colors. My FH wanted a star wars themed wedding but i told him i love the movies but it will have to wait till we renew our vows. not this time ( i am one of those girls that wants to be a princess for her wedding.) I think your theme is great keep going
I love those books!! :) I'd say totally go for it. My husband and I did a mix of gamer geek chic, Dutch, and normal stuff. For those that weren't familiar with our geeky stuff, it was a conversation starter and people loved the idea! I copy/pasted my reply about this subject from this thread: http://boards.weddingbee.com/topic/nerdy-bride
We didn't do a full on theme, but we definitely had elements of geek in our wedding! Some of the things we did included using the EVE Online font in our programs and table names. We used space ship names from EVE Online for our table names. We had one part of our e-pics taken in front of our computers with EVE Online up on the screens in front of us, and last but not least, we had an EVE Online wedding cake!
Here are some pictures to show what we had.
Our programs:
(our names on the top picture and the phrases "The Wedding Party" and "Other Special People" are in the EVE Online font)
Our Dutch version of the programs were longer (they had the transcript of the whole ceremony in them) and so had more of the EVE font.
Our table names:
Our geeky E-pics:
And our wedding cake:
The whole thing together represents what's called a fleet fight happening with the cupcakes. The red cupcakes are enemies, the blue ones are friendlies. The cake itself has pictures a ship each that Anton and I are known for flying in EVE. You can see us each holding the cake showing the side with our personal ship on it! :D
A few other things that were less visual also tied in our wedding to EVE. For instance since we met via EVE, our pastor (he's known me for years) incorporated it slightly into our wedding ceremony. Here are some ideas of how he did that:
I think Anton knows how Adam felt!
EG: Maybe appropriate … Anton & Teri first met playing on ONLINE game – EVE Online. Teri says she never expected that their relationship would ever be more. But then [date?] the two met in Iceland for EVE fan convention.
Anton: “I thought she was the most beautiful, fun, smartest woman I’d ever laid my eyes on and I was perplexed when she showed interest in me in anything more then a friend.”
Hmmm... that's the only one that I can find in the rough draft transcript he gave me... but there were a few references in the actual ceremony. I loved how he pulled it in!
Lastly, we chose to have bubbles at our wedding as we were walking out of the chapel. In and of itself that's a pretty common thing for brides to do. But the fun part was that we had a few of our EVE friends there and they had a fun twist to how they thought of the bubbles! In EVE there are ships that can put out warp disruption bubbles and they are commonly known as "bubblers". The 2 friends that were there told us later they were bubbling us like crazy with their "double bubbles"! I'm not sure I can explain that, but suffice to say it was a game reference that both Anton and I got and loved! It made this seemingly common unrelated-to-EVE part of the ceremony all of a sudden have a very EVE feel to it! :D
Anyway... those were our geeky elements! :)
I love it and so does DH... he thinks is really awesome! Have you seen the movie with Neil Patrick Harris? You should :)
@calico61979: Hahahaha, oh wow! That is awesome!! =) I don't think the theme is too geeky at all, it sounds awesome. If it makes you feel any better, let's just say if I get to that point in life it'll be a mix of several elements including Disney's Tinker Bell, World of Warcraft and Star Wars...uh, yeah. =3...
Okay, so the only problem I have with doing this is that people won't necessarily recognize anything that we are doing as being inspired by the book. Well, maybe FIL will, but that may be it. Of course, I am trying to incorporate ideas that they still seem wedding appropriate and that it wouldn't matter that people won't see how it relates to the book, but then, i kind of think what is the point?
FI still really wants to do it and I like some of the ideas I have come up with, but don't know if I like the idea of having to explain to everyone how everything is related to the book, but then I guess that is what the "Guide"(program) is for.
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So I have been struggling with how I want my wedding to look and I think it is partly because I wasn't sure of the total overall feel of the wedding. I want it to be something casual and fun and reflect the two of us. Also, I have a fiance who really wants to be part of the planning process. So joking around, I said we could do something with Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy for the wedding. It was FI's favorite book growing up and I have read it as well and like the fact that Douglas Adams writes in a very intelligent and creative way. Well, FI really likes the idea, but I am just not sure if I want to have a sci fi theme to our wedding. I don't have a problem with doing things for the wedding that go along with the theme, but my guess is that a lot of people at the wedding will not understand about some of those things because they haven't read the book, so I also want to keep it mainstream.
We chose purple and red for our wedding colors a long time ago and do not want to change th colors as I already have stuff with that scheme. I was thinking about incorporating things like a bowl of petunias for a centerpiece, which come in purple. Also, maybe giving a towel as a wedding favor and doing programs that say "Don't Panic" and be the Guide to the Wedding. The ships name was Heart of Gold, so I thought of incorporating that and also the number 42 in some way. I am just afraid of going too geeky, even though I guess FI and I are pretty geeky.
For those of you who are doing something geeky, how have your family and friends reacted and did the decision come easily to you? I was just curious.