Party Planner: When Geeks Get Married

Geek meets Chic. Geek falls in love. Chic ignores Geek. Geek gets tired of the chase. Geek creates startup. Geek becomes millionaire. Chic then finally realizes Geek is the love of his/her life. Chic + Geek get married and have a fabulous wedding. What? That's not the story goes? Well, if it did, here are ideas for their fabulous unconventional wedding.


Multitask:
Woman Gives USB Wedding Ring to Her Geeky Fiance

Pay Tribute to the Galaxy Far, Far Away:
Star Wars Save the Date: A New Invitation via Offbeat Bride

Dress to Impress:
Cuff links with Lego, Star Wars, and other geeky themes on Etsy

Keep the Tradition Alive:
Arch of Lightsabers a la Arch of Sabers

Enhance Your Learning Environment:
Hold your reception at the Experience Music Project

Show Off Signature Drinks:
Brain ice: too cool for words via Darya Pino to keep cocktails cool

Taste Buds Take on a Science Major:
Dine on cuisine engineered by the Voltaggio Brothers (I miss watching those guys on Top Chef), Richard Blais, or by the godfather of molecular gastronomy, Wylie Dufresne

Applied Mathematics for Dessert
xkcd Comic Wedding Cake (pic above) by Pink Cake Box
"Firefly/Serenity" Spaceship by Cakelava
Super Mario Wedding Cakes via Weddingbee



Get Zero No Shows:
Big screens showing the live twitter stream like Evan Williams at TED, Ustream of the reception or clips of guests' coverage of the ceremony.
A fine example:

michael & janice - shot with an iphone 3g from phoeben teocson on Vimeo via We Heart Weddings

Show off:
Can't by camera shy if you want to broadcast your videos to one of the largest video screens in the world, the NASDAQ tower in Times Square

Never Get Bored:
Gaming Room with all the Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo games galore

DJs are sooo last century:
Have (talented) guests play Rockband or Karaoke

Video Games Not Your Thing? Show You Don't Have Two Left Feet:
Dance Dance Revolution dancefloor

Craving for a cocktail but can't leave the dance floor?
Order your drink via an app that identifies your location with GPS and have the server bring your drink to you

Avoid having guests too drunk to drive:
Monitor with an Alcohol breathalyzer

Gifts for guests or bridal party
Star Wars USB Flash Drives from Mimoco via Moxsie

Wedding Registry:

Split Obsession

Star Wars shoyu (soy sauce) bottles, shampoo bottles & pepper mills from Japan that you can find at Split Obsession in Honolulu
Gift cards to Gamestop
PlayStation Controller Coffee Table


Real {Nerdy} Weddings:
petri dishes & test tube wedding | The Wedding Chicks
Cat and Andrew's sci-fi, gamer nerd wedding goodness | Offbeat Bride

5 tools for Paperless Wedding Planning

#1  Google Docs  - Wedding

If you haven't started using Google Docs yet for your wedding planning, you're missing out! It's great if you don't want to trek around your wedding binder.  I recommend using Style Me Pretty's Google Wedding Docs. SMP + Google, seriously? Come on, who else can beat that?

#2 Evernote

Back when theknot let brides made their own bios, I copied links and pictures like crazy from wedding blogs, photographers, and planners' websites to create my ultimate bio. The stuff I saved from the web were scattered everywhere: on my desktop, my camera, Google Docs, and my wedding binder.  It was a chore to find everything.  With Evernote, I could have saved all those links and pictures in an online database indexed by notebooks and tags. You can even save pdfs and search for words in that pdf file! Check out how this bride used Evernote here.  There's even Evernote for cell phone and for twitter. You can capture information when you're up and about on your bridal tour, at your local bridal show or take pictures of your potential wedding flowers at your local flower mart.  Find a cool musician or hear a cool song you want to play at your wedding? Evernote will let you capture audio as well.

#3  Scanner

Another way to reduce paper clutter is by owning a scanner.  I learned how to do this from Unclutterer (a terrific blog about getting and staying organized).  Just from personal experience, I would recommend the Fujitsu Scan Snap.  I don't have to worry about faxing documents ever again if I can just scan and email them instead. The best part is that I can easily scan to Evernote. I scan my business cards so my rolodex is always searchable and accessible online. 

#4  USB thumb drive

Picture this - you are meeting a friend after your wedding and you want to show off your wedding pictures - Well, if your pictures are no longer on a website, you can always tote around a USB drive with tons of storage space. My favorite USB drive is the LaCie iamakey. It's sturdy, small, and fits easily on your keychain. There's even a 32 GB one.  

#5  Portable Apps

Or you want to show someone your favorite websites but you forgot the name or link-  

Not all is lost if you have your trusty USB drive and downloaded a portable app suite onto it.  I use PortableApps (one of Lifehacker's Best Portable Apps Suites)  which includes a downloadable portable Mozilla Firefox so you can take your bookmarks, extensions and saved passwords wherever you go.