8-bit video game wedding invitations!
Invitation Porn
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on March 03, 2010
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Just in time to celebrate Geek Week — Offbeat Bride Tribe member Darina and her fiance Niko have unveiled their 8-bit video game wedding invitations that they designed themselves!
Darina explains:
"We knew that we didn't want standard paper invites. We wanted something for people to keep and remember. We are geeks. We love video games. Why not have a video game invite?"
The video games have two player choices, you're either the bride or the groom. And the goal is to get to the end to see all the wedding info. So here's what it looks like...
Playing as Darina:
Playing as Niko:
It's worth noting that the games start by asking the user to say whether they've ever played a video game before. We're guessing that if the user selects NO, that the game plays itself. 
The invitations/games come in jewel cases with informational booklets, and the cd also contains...
"...an original soundtrack and outtakes (it took me two hours to get the "I'm sorry Niko..." line straight). It also promotes our awesome singing skills, by singing not only the wrong tune, but also the wrong words of the Soviet hymn."
Check out the packaging that the bride and groom also designed themselves:
For those of you who are interested, here's where you can download and play the invitations! You can download it with Windows, or, using Wine, with Linux and Mac.
If their invitations are this geeky-cool, I can not WAIT to see their wedding porn!
In the mean time, we can satiate our thirst for gamer geekery on Offbeat Bride with these related posts:
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Emery said
THAT IS SO FREAKING AWESOME!!! I love how you even have to jump on the boss 3 times before defeating him just like old school Mario! My guy would totally flip for this….
Christy said
LOVE!!!
@greaser5564 said
O_O
holy crap
this just BLEW MY MIND!
Lara said
Ooooo this is just so full of win! Love them!
alexandria said
Ridiculously amazing! I'm so jealous.
Esther said
OMG just awesome!!! Here I was thinking in doing a bit of paper crafting to make my own wedding invitations… how uncool compared to this!! Lovelovelove it!
ginnygrace84 said
Did I really see that Niko will be taking HER last name??? Awesome!
Mindy said
Love it!
Ammie said
HOLY SHIT!!!! TOO AWESOME!!!
I wish I had the talent to do something like this, these are amazing! Can't wait to see your other wedding projects!
Boxer said
Okay… this makes me want to go back to Geek Training and relearn under the Masters. This is SO freakin' COOL!
Heather said
Ten gazillion points for the Pride & Prejudice line in the introduction!!
Caroline said
Absolutely brilliant idea! I LOVE it!
sven said
this is a masterpiece. i like it.
Karen said
This is fantastic! Above and beyond every level of awesome I could ever think of.
It even got a mention on my local paper's website! (http://www.ottawasun.com/news/weird/2010/03/04/13…
Jojo said
Freaking COOL!! I want that one!!
lori said
just saw this on aol.com news, what a super cool idea!!
Kim said
WOW!!!!!
Alex Arnott said
Wow, so freaking amazing.
No One said
Super cool …. but the music is NOT original: The beginning is the c64 tune of "Human Race", composed by Rob Hubbard, see e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw2dqAxSo3I . The game music is also Rob Hubbard, but I can't recall what game it is from — download HVSC (Collection of all C64 Sid Music) if you care.
Bottom line: Super cool; but bad karma for not giving proper music credit!
offbeat_megan said
Hey "no one," I believe the "original soundtrack" that they're referring to is their goofy group sing at the end of the video game. So no worries — their karma is still totally in tact.
Superstix said
Crazy Comets
Ixen said
That is absolutely awesome! I am having my reception at a gaming pub I would love to have invitations like those!!
Jessica_Iowa said
Thanks ever so much for adding these invitations, they are really delightful.
Jessica_Iowa said
Also, downloaded the video game, and am addicted. I keep playing it when I'm meant to be studying.
James said
Like it – very creative!
We took a slightly off-beat approach for our wedding invites too – our challenge was how to get snow into the invitation! Click on my name to see how we did it…
aion database said
This is just awesome! I really can't wait what would transpired on the wedding itself. I'm sure it'll be totally fabulous! I wish I could have done this on our wedding last year.
John said
That is just so so so so COOL, ALL THE BEST TO YOU. I DO
Steve Fogarty said
OMG – so gorgeous!