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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…

Hobbits and elves and eerie mist: this Lord of the Rings wedding has serious magic

Hobbits and elves and eerie mist: this Middle-earth wedding has serious magic

Middle-earth came to central California at this Middle-earth wedding. The guests’ costumes alone are slaying us with the level of detail! That’s before we even get to the Gandalf officiant, Mount Doom centerpieces, Hobbit hole cake, and misty first dance. Yep, this wedding would make Tolkien proud. Are you ready to see it?

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Atoms and dragonflies: a fantasy wedding reading straight out of a book

Philip Pullman fans: did you know there’s an awesome wedding reading hidden in The Amber Spyglass from His Dark Materials series? Yep, a fantasy wedding reading right smack dab in your fiction. Not shocking considering all the amazing readings we’ve spied in literature.

But this one is pretty special. It’s got atoms creating new atoms and light in sunbeams and dragonflies and pine trees and ohmyglob someone use this reading in their ceremony! Want to hear it? Let’s go…

The HUGE list of instrumental songs for your movie theme wedding playlist

The HUGE list of instrumental songs for your movie theme wedding playlist

Cinephiles, movie-lovers, movie wedding theme-havers, this wedding playlist is all about you. We’re talking movie-themed ceremony songs and movie-themed cocktail and dinner songs that are all instrumental.

Here are over 69 instrumental songs for your movie-themed wedding playlist to give your ceremony or dinner playlist the EPIC gravitas it needs.

Vault Boy approves of this gamer Fallout video game-themed wedding

Vault Boy approves of these gamers’ Fallout wedding

Erin and Jordan took a favorite post-apocalyptic video game, Fallout, and rocked it as a killer wedding theme. This Fallout wedding took place at a hundred-year-old clock tower which served as both the ceremony and reception site. Don’t miss the Fallout-themed decor like a giant Vault Boy, Nuka-Cola posters and art, cap stashes, bottle caps, Rad-X and Buffout centerpieces, and even an “Enjoy Vault Living” guest book poster.