Nadia & Dale's wookiee boogie Star Wars wedding
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on May 24, 2011
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Photos by Wedding Dream Services
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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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Stephanie said
this is so epic!! I love this probably entirely too much! CONGRATS on an AWESOME happy day!
haelmai said
I might just have to steal your R2D2 ring-bearer idea, cuz my guy really, really wants a monkey in a Jedi cloak to be our ring-bearer, but I just don't know how it would work. But R2 . . . .
Nadia said
A monkey sounds amazing! Dooo it
AlaskaMoe said
A Fricken Mazing!! LOVE IT!!
Nadia said
Forgot to mention that wedding dream services also did the hair and makeup. They were awesome
Joanna said
Awesome Stars Wars wedding. I love the R2D2 ring bearer. Geek weedings are the best!
babysmalls said
THAT DRESS ARE YOU F*CKING KIDDING ME!?! I swooned, I died, I came back from the hospital and left this comment. It's incredible.
Drake Black said
See this is what weddings need nowadays, originality. I wish everyone was as open minded as your family and his, everything not only looks awesome but it looks ELEGANT as well. Great job and may your marriage be as awesome as your wedding.
Jaenylle said
That is absolutely amazing! I would LOVE to walk down the aisle to the Imperial Death March. I couldn't contain my giddiness when I read this,and had to show this to the GameCrush Sith Lord GCLily. She’s decided she wants a dark side wedding!
Ariel (but not that one) said
I am in love. Your wedding is *so* amazing. I love the guest's costumes, and all the little geeky touches are brilliant. (No alderan, hah.) Your dress and hair and cape are probably my favorites, though. You look like you stepped straight out of a story! (Or a movie, as the case may be.
) Gorgeous. Congratulations; geek weddings ftw!
Ariel said
First of all, AMAZING wedding. Everything is so wonderful. As they say, the devil is in the details. So with that in mind…
Was I REALLY the only one on here who noticed the absence of Alderaan, yet the name card NOT absent. That one LITERALLY made me snort and laugh. Well done!
Ivriniel said
Where did you get all the Stormtrooper armour? Are you members of the 501st Legion?
http://www.501st.com/
Stormy said
Wow, very beautiful and TASTEFUL wedding! You made it look so elegant and not so "costumy". That is amazing! I think my husband and I would've LOVED to do something like this, but I don't think that our families would play along enough for it to go over well haha.
Jim Unger said
I love this! Talk about fun!!