Nadia & Dale's wookiee boogie Star Wars wedding

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The offbeat bride: Nadia, Web Designer

Her offbeat partner: Dale, Programmer

Date and location of wedding: Cedar Creek Estate Tamborine Mountain, Queensland — August 15, 2010

What made our wedding offbeat: We had a full Star Wars-themed wedding. The 501st legion acted as a guard of honour and raised $1000 for the Starlight Children's Foundation. I bought an R2-D2 projector that acted as ring bearer, we had a Jabba the Hutt wedding cake, I painted planets from the Star Wars Galaxy for all the tables, and all the guests dressed up in Star Wars attire.

Tell us about the ceremony: Every entrance was matched to John Williams' score. The stormtroopers entered to Darth Vader's theme, along with Dale's dad as celebrant, then Dale entered to the Throne Room score at the end of Episode IV. The Princess Leia flower girls and my handmaiden of honour entered to the pretty Across the Stars love theme while I entered the chapel with my dad in a Jedi costume (and the beard he grew for the wedding) at the musical climax of the love theme. It was all timed really well and just tons of fun.

My favorite moment: My favorite moment was my dad reading my sister's speech. She couldn't attend, but the speech was really lovely. I also loved Dale's speech to me since it was off-the-cuff and funny. Everything was stress-free.

My funniest moment: R2-D2 coming down the aisle. It has this issue where it screams every metre or so, so it would move a little way up the aisle, scream, then move a bit closer. Beats a small child any day.

Was there anything you were sure was going to be a total disaster that unexpectedly turned out great? I thought the guests might not dress up, but almost everyone came in crazy costumes that were really surprising and funny. My second cousin came as a male Princess Leia and that was one of the great photo moments.

My advice for offbeat brides: Pay attention to the details, and if your partner has a crazy idea like having stormtroopers line up along the back of the church, go with it.

Care to share a few vendor/shopping links?

Lightsabers from Thinkgeek
Cake from Cake Star (best cakes ever!)
Photography by Wedding Dream Services

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Comments (45)

On May 24th, 2011 at 5:49 AM
Samantha said

I love this. Not only is it fun and theme-delicious, but it's absolutely elegant.

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On May 24th, 2011 at 6:22 AM
Miranda said

HOLY CRAP!!!! Jawas and Chewbacca? Pics in a CAVE? Lightsabers everywhere? This whole thing rocks so.damn.hard!!!! This was one awesome wedding…oh, and PS, you are one GORGEOUS bride. I'm in awe. I bow down to your awesomeness!

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- On May 24th, 2011 at 4:46 PM
  Nadia said
  
  aw shucks, thanks
  
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- On May 24th, 2011 at 6:36 PM
  Katherine said
  
  That's no cave!
  
  Someone had to say it, okay?
  
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On May 24th, 2011 at 6:23 AM
Crystal said

OMG! I am in love with your wedding! If my FH loved Star Wars as much as I do we would do the same thing!!! Kudos to you guys! Your wedding looks AMAZING!!!!

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- On June 3rd, 2011 at 12:44 PM
  crystal said
  
  ha! i'm crystal. and i thought the exact thing!!
  
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On May 24th, 2011 at 6:36 AM
misty said

your dress and hair mayes me hyperventilate. what an amazing and fun wedding!!!!! aak!!

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On May 24th, 2011 at 6:51 AM
Dee said

Everything about this is cool but I have to say, I ADORE your hair! Soooo pretty!

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On May 24th, 2011 at 6:51 AM
mackitten said

WOW amazing!

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On May 24th, 2011 at 6:51 AM
dlenn said

Fabulous! This is what I was too scared to do. I LOVE IT!

Your dress looks fabulous too!

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On May 24th, 2011 at 7:23 AM
Anna said

LOL I love this wedding! Very well done.

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On May 24th, 2011 at 7:59 AM
Kamille said

First off. Love this wedding.
Second, did anyone else read Starlight Children and think of Jem and the Holograms?

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On May 24th, 2011 at 8:00 AM
Andrell said

We are doing a Halloween Costume Wedding with the Bridal Party being Star Wars (Ep. II, anakin and padme's first kiss). This is very inspiring! We like the Jawas so much, we're going to make our ring bearer and flower girl little Jawas!

P.S. Did you get your Sabers from UltraSabers or elsewhere? Please share!

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- On May 24th, 2011 at 4:23 PM
  Nadia said
  
  From Thinkgeek fx lightsabers.
  
  We also got the yoda backpack my mum had from there.
  
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On May 24th, 2011 at 8:57 AM
Celeste said

OMFG, this is amazing. Perfect blend of gorgeous, classy, and fun. And how awesome that you were able to use your wedding to raise money for charity! I love it.

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On May 24th, 2011 at 9:07 AM
Em said

I'm so in love with this <3

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On May 24th, 2011 at 9:12 AM
Suz said

Beautiful!!

And OMFG your cape… AMAZEBALLS.

Well done, you, and congratulations!

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On May 24th, 2011 at 9:23 AM
JihadPunk said

amazing photos, beautiful wedding. Now that's a wedding that'll be remembered for a long time!

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On May 24th, 2011 at 9:40 AM
Christine Schendel-Smith Hernandez said

I absolutely love your wedding!! It amazing and the photos in the cave are the best! Congrats!!

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- On May 24th, 2011 at 4:46 PM
  Nadia said
  
  That's why we chose the location, the cave seemed perfect
  
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On May 24th, 2011 at 11:04 AM
Ashleymarie Sey said

Holy cow! That's phenomenal! I love how perfect everyone's outfits are!!! Such a beautiful couple too! Congrats! Thank you so much for sharing! Complete Star Wars nerd here. <3

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On May 24th, 2011 at 11:13 AM
Chris said

AMAAAAZING.

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On May 24th, 2011 at 11:14 AM
jennie said

The most perfect wedding in the world!!

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On May 24th, 2011 at 3:01 PM
Slade Hashimoto said

This is a very BEAUTIFULLY done Star Wars Wedding! Congrats to you guys! I'm super jelly at the moment! I can only hope our LOTR themed Ceremony can be just as wonderful. As you said, its all in the details.

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- On May 24th, 2011 at 4:56 PM
  Nadia said
  
  We also love LOTR, how awesome for a wedding
  
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On May 24th, 2011 at 3:09 PM
KittyCatCorn said

this is epic on a scale i can't even express. awesomely done.

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On May 24th, 2011 at 4:42 PM
Jess said

This wedding made me feint from its overwelming awesomeness

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On May 24th, 2011 at 5:31 PM
Jessica_Iowa said

Congratulations!
Everything looks great I love all the lightsabers you have!
You even look a little like Leia.

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On May 24th, 2011 at 9:35 PM
Amelia said

What an absolutely gorgeous dress!

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On May 25th, 2011 at 1:26 AM
Kate said

So first of all, I just decided to finally drink the bottle of wine I bought at Cedar Creek Estate when I visited Australia and spent a day on Tamborine Mountain in 2006. Which is really odd timing. More importantly, this is absolutely amazing in every way and my husband's favorite featured wedding, ever.

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On May 25th, 2011 at 4:55 AM
goldfishfox said

Your dude-Leia pretty much made my day: this looks like one of the most fun weddings ever! Congrats!

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