Jen & Rod’s papercraft-y city gamer wedding
These UK gamers certainly know how to put effort into their decor — you might lose your shit over their amazing papercraft centerpieces based on game developers. But it’s the little touches that made us grin: the Calvin & Hobbes vows, the kitty collar moment, the serenade-turned-glass crash moment(!), and of course, the big love for their friends and family. This is a geektastic-meets-metal winner, you guys.
Use giant dice to show off your wedding date
Offbeat Bride member Cari and her fiance Matthias just sent out their Save the Date postcards for their wedding in Aachen, Germany. These two smart nerds came up with a crafty way to highlight their wedding date — by building their own giant dice and positioning them just so.
Angela & Ty’s international seaside elopement
Relieve your wedding planning stress by basking in the easy-going glow of this Vancouver elopement. No mess, no stress (except for a teeny shoe snafu!), and this sweet elopement of two lovers from two countries will warm your hearts. Mint details, a seaside venue, a super helpful marriage commissioner — it’s a story of long-distance that will make you root for these two.
Megan & John’s Legend of Zelda geeky gamer union
Fire Flowers, MegaMan, Bob-omb, Mario, Link, and the making of player twos… this is a gamer geek’s wonderland. You have to see the costumes, the 8-bit cakes, and of course, the TRIFORCE UNITY CEREMONY! Come geek out and get your game on. Just don’t nibble the favor soap!
Pixellated Save the Date video full of ’90s nostalgia
We’ve seen a LOT of Save the Date videos, so many that I’m a jaded asshole about them. Maybe it’s because I’m a child of the ’90s, but this one just killed me in all the best ways…
How to make a Portal Companion Cube card box
We were inspired by this post on Craftster to make a Companion Cube card box. And then we found the basis for our templates (to which we made some crucial modifications) over here. But we had to make a bunch of mods to make these work the way we wanted them to, and it was kind of terrifically complex. So I figured in case anyone else wanted to give this a try, I’d post what we did to help ease the process for y’all. So here goes…
