Comments on: Katrina & Mikhail's low-budget costumers' wedding on a pirate ship

By: Katrina

Katrina — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:21:12 +0000

Thanks! No problem at all. I go back and forth between liking the labels and not, especially when I see certain celebrities use them.
But I guess if anyone is a geek, I am. I run and attend conventions like crazy plus do the horribly geeky thing of dressing up as my favorite characters.

By: Offbeat Megan

Offbeat Megan — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:07:07 +0000

Tags added Katrina. Thanks for the heads up! I didn't originally add them because I wait for brides to self-identify themselves as such. Just because I take someone calling me a nerd with pride doesn't mean that others do. But reading over it I see that you DID mention that it was a geek wedding. Therefor, my bad.

By: Katrina

Katrina — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 14:21:38 +0000

That sounds gorgeous, Carla Star! I love it! Originally, that's what I wanted to do, but then my husband and I decided to mix things up. I still did my dress and one of the readings I wanted plus my sister singing "Aniron".

Oh, and OBB editors, if you're reading this, you probably should add the "nerd wedding" and "geek wedding" tags to this post because I was looking at other geek weddings and noticed this one didn't come up.

By: Carla Star

Carla Star — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:06:43 +0000

your wedding is so inspiring to me. I am a DIY bride as well and I am so afraid my wedding is seeming to geeky. And like you I am making everything on my own. I live in NJ so unfortunately we have to worry about the weather. We are doing a full on LOTR theme. I am making the banners of Gondor in which Arwen held at the end of ROTK. We have a beautiful statuette that my soon to be mother in law gave us for our anniversary 2 years ago that is Arwen handing Aragorn the Evenstar (this will be our cake topper.) I am wearing the Evenstar- Arwen's crown and her cloak/cape. However I am making the cloak- and have had the crown and Evenstar for years. Actually my fiance gave them both to me as my "actual proposal" He said that the Evenstar is more meaningful than any ring and it truly is. As my grooms gift to him I am getting him the sword of Aragorn the Anduril. I am naming all the tables after all the places visited except Mordor. I am using the white tree of Gondor for my placecards- I am making a giant white tree (the symbol) and adding a few extra leaves- the leaves are going to be the placecards!!! The food and drinks are all going to be named after different foods and drink mentioned throughout Tolkien's books. Needless to say I have done all of my invitations by hand in elvish fonts and translated. I am trying to gear my wedding ceremony to be like Rivendell and the reception held in Gondor. I will also be putting up maps of Beleriand, Middle-Earth, Numenor, and Bilbo'd Hobbit map that I have made.That's all I have come up with so far. It is just so much fun. I am debating on making my cake like Bilbo's birthday cake- Its a little larger than I need- LOL

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:48:05 +0000

I absolutely love your wedding! You did your wedding the way I would have if I had had anything close to that level of skill in sewing. We are trying to do something similar for our wedding, with a combination of Japanese and medieval elements with the odd bit of video games thrown in such as the FF8 ballroom dance scene as our first dance. You guys are an inspiration. I love it.

By: Sheri Layne

Sheri Layne — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:07:53 +0000

WOWEEE WOW WOW! Too cool. Honestly I'm impressed. You had MY dream wedding. I could never pull it off though. Our renfest charges up the wazoo to have a wedding there. And you have to buy THEIR food. (18 dollars per gallon of fruit punch for example).
I love the dress and the fact that it looks like most of the guests dressed up in their own geeky fashion. From ren to star wars to star trek and beyond! Fantastic.
LEMBAS bread! awesome.
BTW, whoever had the idea in their comment about walking down to the Firefly theme great idea, I might steal it!

Congrats! Hope the marriage is going as geeky as the wedding!

By: Katrina

Katrina — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:31:11 +0000

Hi Cynzilee (I don't know if you check these).

It took me about a year to do all of the costumes. I worked on them in between running a convention, finishing film school, and making other costumes (namely the Poison Ivy and Riddler costumes we wore to the "bachelor party" a.k.a. going to see The Dark Knight at midnight). I probably could have done them in a month or two otherwise.

It was amazingly hot. One of the hottest days of the year. I changed for the reception because I knew I could only stand a crinoline and corset so long.

By: Cynzilee

Cynzilee — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:19:17 +0000

Wow what a cool wedding! I just came across this website and found your wedding, funny thing is my wedding date is July 19,2009 the same day as yours! and its not a tradtional wedding it is a Hawaiian/costumed themed wedding! I have a question to the bride ( if she gets this question? ) How long did it take you to make the costumes and your wedding gown? and werent you hot on that day? thanks and congrats to all of you!

By: Ashley

Ashley — Mon, 18 May 2009 01:14:43 +0000

My fiance and I are big geeks as well and this wedding just blew me away! You look beautiful! (And it makes me feel better about wearing my glasses for my upcoming wedding.)

I love how you incorporated so many different things into it! And you make such an adorable couple! This is giving me so much inspiration!

Congratulations!

By: Katrina

Katrina — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:22:23 +0000

Hi Traci!

I love the idea of the planetarium for a wedding. Married under the stars in the geekiest way possible!

Well, yours probably isn't costume-related, but I would do everything very night-related. I mean, you COULD go full-out Star Wars or Star Trek or Battlestar Galactica or whatever you want, or you could reign it in to mostly being about the mystique of the night sky and the possibilities of space exploration.

If it were me planning this for a friend, I would go with a kitschy sci-fi theme and take decorations from the Soviet/US space race era. That could extend all the way to the original Star Trek in the 60s. There are cool outfit ideas in so many 60s movies. I think I'm about to run out of room for comments, but those are my ideas off the top of my head.