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geeky weddings

Gamers, comic book nerds, pop-culture enthusiasts, and geeks of all kinds: Offbeat Wed is the original home of nerdy weddings going way back to 2006. We’ve got geeky wedding ideas for all the fandoms: Doctor Who weddings, Star Wars weddings, Lord of the Rings weddings, Harry Potter weddings, Game of Thrones weddings, and so many more…

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Emmalyn & Gavin’s gender-neutral, LGBTQ-friendly, Renaissance Festival wedding

On the fourth day of Pride Week, we will travel to the Arizona Renaissance Festival. Where Emmalyn & Gavin, who identify as gender queer, celebrated their nuptials with a joust! – Coco

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Heidi & Scott’s rustic, butterfly themed, backyard wedding!

Heidi & Scott love DIY projects, so why should their wedding be any different? They did just about everything themselves, which resulted in a wonderful, butterfly themed, backyard wedding!

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Marisa & Patrick’s Pi day wedding in a science museum

Marisa & Patrick based the theme of their wedding entirely on the location. Since they are science/comic nerds the venue of their dreams turned out to be a science museum. So they held their ceremony in the planetarium and used science paraphernalia as decorations!

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Periodic table seating chart

Wanna see the nerdiest seating chart ever? Not surprisingly it was made for a Pi day wedding. Check it out…

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Cat and Andrew’s sci-fi, gamer nerd wedding goodness from Whitney Lee Photography

If you’ve been a reader of OBB for a while you will recognize the name Whitney Lee Photography — we’ve gotten so much amazing wedding porn from this Austin, Texas photography team that we’ve even assigned them their own tag! Well now Whitney Lee Photography is back to share Cat and Andrew’s sci-fi, gamer nerd […]

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Feynman-style Hindu wedding program

Kiersten decided that instead of explaining their upcoming Hindu wedding ceremony to everyone who would be attending, that she would just make a very detailed program to explain the goings on, and she drew inspiration from an extremely unlikely source!