Comments on: He/She blinded him/her with science!

By: Aurelia

Aurelia — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 02:31:36 +0000

When physicists marry physicists, they name their children Quantum, Quasar, and Quark. Yes, I know Quantum and Quasar.

By: Never teh Bride

Never teh Bride — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:09:43 +0000

Oddly, Jennifer, I do know how hard it is! I was a female gnome in a D&D game, and we used little figurines to orientate ourselves on the hand-drawn maps. My friend had to cobble together a figurine from spare parts.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:06:13 +0000

I’m not married to my geek (met via in MMORPG) but when a friend met him for the first time she said “Oh! If you get married you should have the cake topper be a Gnome and an Elf.” Um, yeah. That’s Wood Elf. Sheesh. And really, do you know how hard it is to find a female gnome at all, not to mention one without a pointy hat and beard?

By: Pencils

Pencils — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:45:42 +0000

We figured everyone knew we were geeks without putting up a neon sign.

Exactly, Lynn. Everyone at our wedding knows we’re big geeks, and to be honest, being a geek is only a part of our lives. Our wedding celebrated our love for each other, not our love for science fiction. Although there is a picture of us cutting the cake in Locus magazine. (A cake decorated with roses and lovebirds.)

By: Wendy

Wendy — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:03:44 +0000

We’re thinking of having our guests solve math problems on their seating cards to figure out their table number, but we might only do this for our other geeky friends. Some family has complained that they’re worried they might not find their seats!

By: Lynn

Lynn — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:36:47 +0000

We are big geeks, but we did our best to keep it out of our wedding. We figured everyone knew we were geeks without putting up a neon sign.

By: class-factotum

class-factotum — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:51:30 +0000

I was on the road to being a geek but changed my major from electrical engineering to English. My sweetie, however, stuck with engineering and now meets at least half the requirements for nerdom as described in the video here:

http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/archives/6582-Ridin-Dirty.html

PS Remember in Revenge of the Nerds that it was the nerd who was great at sex because “all the jocks ever think about is sports.”

PPS I love the cake!

By: Pencils

Pencils — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:39:17 +0000

We’re both geeks–I’m a science fiction/fantasy book editor, my husband runs a particle accelerator. We met through an online personal ad in which I described my plush Cthulhu as what you would find in my bedroom. However, we didn’t do anything particularly geeky at the wedding, other than invite a lot of other geeks to be guests. And, no, there will be no children with names from fantasy novels.

I do, however, know a Near Eastern archaeologist who had a 3,000 year old Akkadian wedding text written in cuneiform on her wedding cake (her husband is also an archaeologist.)

By: asiji

asiji — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:28:58 +0000

Our rings are Mobius strips. We get shown off at all the geek parties.

By: Abby

Abby — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:15:18 +0000

My husband and I had a number of readings at our ceremony, the geekiest of which (and our favorite!) was Darwin’s list of pros and cons for proposing to his eventual bride. Some of the pros: “These things good for one’s health—but terrible loss of time” and “Object to be beloved and played with. Better than a dog anyhow.”