Here's to the last day of "geek week" weddings and the end to the count-down the book reading! And do I got a doozy for ya… See what happens when two comic book dorks fall in love. I'll give you hint — utter amazingness. -Megan

The offbeat bride: Ann, Reservations Agent, Dork, and Sewing Superhero (and OBT member "Ann Verleg")

Her offbeat partner: Sean, Kitchen Manager, Dork and Ann’s personal Chef

Location & date of wedding: St. Andrews on the Square Kamloops, British Columbia Canada — October 31st, 2009 Halloween

What made our wedding offbeat: Our quest was to make our wedding hilariously fun and heartfelt. Everything was about us and our weird and wonderful imagination. We had a Viking themed ceremony that included a sword ceremony and dowry exchange, a dorktastic photo shoot in the park and at the comic book store where we met, a reception complete with beard contest and a pajama party/gift opening at breakfast.

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As someone who often puts together these bride profiles while watching marathons of Doctor Who, this "geek week" wedding really made me happy. Also it's a first for "costumed wedding cat" that I know of! -Megan

The offbeat bride: Brenda, software trainer

Her offbeat partner: Rob, High School teacher

Location & date of wedding: Our home, Manchester, NH — 7/18/09

What made our wedding offbeat: From the get-go, our wedding was anything other than traditional. We chose a sci-fi themed wedding based on the the TV show Firefly and movie Serenity, that represented our love of sci-fi and a reason to be eco-friendly.

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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…

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The moment I saw their Lego cake topper and their card box constructed out of legos, I knew I had to profile them on "geek week!" So Lego nerds, check it out… -Megan

The offbeat bride: Lauren, computer nerd for a museum in Houston (and an OBT member)

Her offbeat partner: Nick, TSA Officer

Location & date of wedding: The War Memorial, Grosse Pointe Farms, MI — 8/28/2009

What made our wedding offbeat: From top to bottom, everything about our wedding bucked tradition. Somethings were out of our control, so we tossed out tradition. Lauren's whole family was unable to attend the wedding, so her father-in-law walked her in. But somethings… the lego cake topper, the moissanite ring (no diamond here!), and the knee high striped socks, well… we did it our way.

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For our second wedding on Offbeat Bride's "geek week" we bring you Amanda and Matt's astronomy inspired wedding, featuring a Doctor Who cake and astronomy-based decor and favors. -Megan

The offbeat bride: Amanda, ceramic artist (and OBT member)

Her offbeat partner: Matt, Aerospace Engineering grad student

Location & date of wedding: Rose Garden at Iowa State — 6 June 2009

What made our wedding offbeat: We did maybe ten traditional things, and even those were offbeat. We had gotten married the day before at the courthouse, so it was really just a time to celebrate together with good food, great atmosphere, and great friends and family.

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We're doing a week of geek weddings on Offbeat Bride! I've been waiting for an excuse to do this and I think the countdown to the Offbeat Bride book re-release party is a great reason! So we're kicking off "geek week" with Sarah and Justin's geek-chic wedding, coincidentally right around the time of their first wedding anniversary! -Megan

The Offbeat Bride: Sarah, Admin Associate at the University of Texas (and OBT member "mamomo")

Her offbeat partner: Justin, Radio Shack manager

Location & date of wedding: Justin's uncle and aunt's house in Austin, TX — March 28, 2009

What made our wedding offbeat: We started with a traditional foundation but added details to reflect our interests and personalities.

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Okay fellow geeks and nerds, get ready to be super stoked about these XKCD save-the-dates made by OBT member Jordan! Boomdeyada…

From Jordan's OBT update:

"So here's our Save the Date — we're just e-mailing it (FH did a great job of figuring out how to get to it to go in the body of the e-mail without coming off as spam). Art is by Randall Munroe of our favorite webcomic XKCD (please please visit www.xkcd.com if you have never done so, he's awesome). I'm super excited!"

Ariel and I are big fans of XKCD, and when I showed this to Ariel she pointed out that "of extra geeky importance is that all XKCD comics are Creative Commons licensed — meaning that this is a totally legit appropriation!" Which I did not know, but I'm glad of it because it means that if any of you out there are inspired by this, you too can have some pretty amazing XKCD wedding invites and STDs!

Remember the wacky wedding placemats made by OBT member Liz? Well, Liz is back with another of her great wedding creations — weird wedding survival kits for the adorably nerdy.

I'd seen this idea on a few blogs, but wanted to make it my own. Since I'm a Star Trek nerd, and Kevin's a Star Wars nerd, we had to include something from each universe in our particular kits.

Here's the list of what we've included…

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