Ferne & Ben's geeky science fiction wedding #Real Weddings: Global#australia#books#candy buffet#comic books#DIY#diy bouquet#diy veil#doctor who#fingerprint tree#geeky weddings#literature theme#non-floral bouquet#paper flowers#reception dress#sci-fi#short engagement#tv#vintage dress Updated Oct 12 2015 (Posted Nov 21 2013) Offbeat Editors Photos by: Vibe Photography The Day of the Doctor is coming in honor of Doctor Who's 50th anniversary. What better way to relish one of our fave fandoms than to have a Doctor Who theme week? Allons-y! Photos by Vibe Photography The Offbeat Bride: Ferne, PhD student and future sci-fi author Her offbeat partner: Ben, web developer Date and location of wedding: Australia — May 7, 2013 Our offbeat wedding at a glance: Ben and I love Doctor Who, Firefly, science fiction, and reading, so we had a TARDIS wedding cake, sci-fi spaceship table names, stacked books as decorations, and lots of LED lights in everything. And I mean in everything: from inside lolly jars to inside flower vases. I didn't want a traditional white dress with train and veil so, to match my sapphire engagement ring, I bought a very simple, cobalt blue wedding dress within a week of him proposing. However, we visited Ben's grandmother and I ended up trying her dress and loving it. It's over seventy years old with a cathedral length train and long sleeves. It was the complete opposite to what I had imagined, but as soon as I saw it on, I knew I couldn't imagine myself in anything else. I decided to wear the traditional white dress for the ceremony and the fun blue one for the reception! We made a lot of things ourselves. We made comic book bouquets for the bridesmaids, book paper roses for my bouquet, and matching button holes for the boys over the course of many Sunday afternoons. I made my own veil as I couldn't find one that would do the dress justice, and it came out surprisingly well. The bridesmaid stoles were bought online cheaply and then altered with our mad sewing skills. Ben designed our wedding invitations and RSVP cards to look like the Penguin Classics books and we together wrote a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy-themed wedding guide (inspired by some we'd seen on Offbeat Bride). For our guest book, I drew and framed a tree and had people "leaf" a thumbprint. However, we were most proud of our DIY Dalek card box! It stood over a metre high, was completely made from recycled cardboard, and even had flashing lights inside. It took months to build with papier-mâché, paint, metal bolts, and LEDs. Tell us about the ceremony: The youngest member of my family was our flower girl. She was four months old and her baby walker had been transformed into a purple, sparkly Dalek with "Love-bot" written across the back. Her parents pulled her down the aisle, and she was a complete show-stealer (which had been the plan as Ben and I aren't hugely fond of being the centre of attention!). I walked down the aisle with my dad to "This is Gallifrey: Our Childhood, Our Home" from the Doctor Who season three soundtrack. I wanted to get our mums involved in the ceremony, too. Since I made my bouquet myself, I made two extra roses, and when I got to the end of the aisle, I gave my mum a rose and as Ben and I were going back down the aisle, Ben gave his mum a rose too. We wrote our own vows. Mine included quotes from Doctor Who, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and Red vs. Blue and Ben's had a lot of Information Technology jokes, which meant we were snickering for quite a bit of it whilst our guests looked on a little blankly. This! My favorite moment: One of the most meaningful moments was my dad telling me he'd make sure I wouldn't fall as I wobbled my way down the aisle. I also loved seeing my mum's face with tears in her eyes and the biggest smile. Their love and support was overwhelming. Another favorite moment was our first dance to The xx's "Angel." Ben sang it to me as we danced, and it was the moment that my brain switched over from engaged to married. Care to share a few vendor/shopping links? Blue dress: The Bridal Outlet Photography: Vibe Photography DJ: DJ Magoo Cake: Cakes by Kyla Enough talk — show me the wedding porn! PREVIOUS Monogrammed wedding napkins as couple re-branding NEXT Squeeze a little afternoon delight into your wedding day Show/Hide comments [ 14 ] I love the story behind the dress- I'm glad you embraced it so fully. Something borrowed and something blue, something old and something new in two dresses! Where are the pictures of this Dalek child?! Reply I've added some photos of baby dalek on Flickr so let me know if you have any issues. Her mum was a real legend designing and making the outfit and baby dalek loved the attention! Reply OH MY GAWD. She is adorable.!!!! Reply You had me at "four month old purple Dalek love-bot flower girl." Amazing! Reply Fantastic wedding! Such a beautiful vintage dress! I bet it felt like magical time travel to wear it, and well, doesn't that just fit your theme? Awesome! Reply That dress is just incredible and the TARDIS cake is wonderful. I'm really loving these Doctor Who weddings. I'm getting so many ideas for our own wedding. Even feeling inspired to some DIY. Reply The cake tasted amazing too! We kept the Tardis section and froze it so we can eat it on our one year anniversary! Reply I must have looked the other way when the cat's head appeared…damn it!!!! Reply Yes, keep the Doctor Who weddings coming! I've enjoyed all of them immensely so far. Reply We've got one more coming! Be sure to check our archives too — we've got years of Whovian weddings: http://offbeatbride.com/tag/doctor-who 🙂 Reply This is so amazing. I'm loving the sci-fi weddings! We're planning our own sci-fi wedfest and if these wonderful unions are any indication, it's going to be a blast! You look so, so happy. What a beautiful story about the dress! Reply Battlestaaaaarrrrr wedding photo is killing me!! I'm dead, dead of amazing love of this photo-perfect! Reply How did you make the comic book bouquets? I need to know and I can't find a helpful tutorial anywhere! Reply Here is the tutorial I used for the flowers! Super easy to make and they last forever! http://foldingtrees.com/2008/11/kusudama-tutorial-part-1/ Reply Join the conversation Cancel ReplyYour email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *Comment Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Sign me up for your offbeat awesomeness newsletter! 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I love the story behind the dress- I'm glad you embraced it so fully. Something borrowed and something blue, something old and something new in two dresses! Where are the pictures of this Dalek child?! Reply
I've added some photos of baby dalek on Flickr so let me know if you have any issues. Her mum was a real legend designing and making the outfit and baby dalek loved the attention! Reply
Fantastic wedding! Such a beautiful vintage dress! I bet it felt like magical time travel to wear it, and well, doesn't that just fit your theme? Awesome! Reply
That dress is just incredible and the TARDIS cake is wonderful. I'm really loving these Doctor Who weddings. I'm getting so many ideas for our own wedding. Even feeling inspired to some DIY. Reply
The cake tasted amazing too! We kept the Tardis section and froze it so we can eat it on our one year anniversary! Reply
We've got one more coming! Be sure to check our archives too — we've got years of Whovian weddings: http://offbeatbride.com/tag/doctor-who 🙂 Reply
This is so amazing. I'm loving the sci-fi weddings! We're planning our own sci-fi wedfest and if these wonderful unions are any indication, it's going to be a blast! You look so, so happy. What a beautiful story about the dress! Reply
Battlestaaaaarrrrr wedding photo is killing me!! I'm dead, dead of amazing love of this photo-perfect! Reply
How did you make the comic book bouquets? I need to know and I can't find a helpful tutorial anywhere! Reply
Here is the tutorial I used for the flowers! Super easy to make and they last forever! http://foldingtrees.com/2008/11/kusudama-tutorial-part-1/ Reply