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8 Nerdy And Geeky Wedding Themes And Stuffs That You Probably Wanted To Know About

Here is another round of cool weddings for you my dear readers. This time, we will jumping and diving into the geeky and nerdy world. Below are personal choices of mine of the coolest wedding stuffs (from invitations, cakes, themes, dresses or outfit) I am able to find online. They are quite amusing and really interesting as well. So have fun and enjoy my collection of super cool geeky and nerdy weddings.

Geeky Wedding Invitations With Circuit Boards and Blinking LEDs

Wedding invitations don’t get any geekier than this. Bill Porter and his fiance Mara really wanted to come up with invitations that popped and screamed geek all the way. With their wedding theme being ‘Circuits and Swirls,’ the power couple put their heads together to come up with DIY invitations that involved circuit boards and embedded LED lights. Source

Millennium Falcon Star Wars Cake

If you really want to go all out on a sci-fi wedding cake though, there’s no greater touch than adding working lighting. Just look at how amazing this Millennium Falcon Star Wars cake by The Butter End Cakery looks with those glowing lights in the front. Source

Ewok Wedding Invitations

What do sentient fur-covered bipeds, native to the moon of Endor, have to do with weddings? Probably nothing, that was until Tribe member Melissa designed these incredible accordion fold wedding invitations… Source

Twilight-Themed Wedding - Surnames Changed To Cullen

This lovely young couple married on February 5, and to celebrate their affinity for The Twilight Saga, incorporated several themes from The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1's wedding, including changing their names. Abby and Andy formally changed their surnames to Cullen by deed poll after celebrating a lush Breaking Dawn-themed wedding. Source

Twilight-Themed Wedding - Surnames Changed To Cullen

Wedding Cake Trivia You Should Know Before Tying The Knot

As we already know, wedding cakes are being served to guests during the wedding reception. It is also quite a fact that wedding cake is not a normal or what-you-see-daily cake. It is made of large cake or loaf covered with ornamental icings all over it together with fondant. In short, wedding cakes are special, extraordinary and extravagant. Aside from having an extravagant presentation, the dense of the cake and the proportions of it is being handled alone by the baker’s expertise and excellence in his culinary background. But above all of these, did you know that each and every slice, cut and portion being eaten of world famous wedding cakes do have a lot of meanings?

Wedding Cake Facts And Trivia

During the Roman Empire

A loaf of bread is made with wheat and barley – that’s their wedding cake
The purpose of it is to throw it to the bride and not to be eaten.
Another one is crumbling the wedding cake over the bride’s head as a symbol of her fertility.
A piece of wedding cake must be broken, made by the groom at the head of the bride to announce his dominance in their married life.

French Croquembouche

It is one of the earliest forms of wedding cake in the history.
It is a pile of French pastries that can be dipped in chocolate bounded with caramel as well.
This is delicately accentuated with almonds, ribbons and flowers.
During the medieval era, the newly wed couples must kiss over these piles of pastry in an attempt not rumble it down.
If they were successful enough no to rumble down, a lifetime fortune awaits the newly-wed couples.

Customary

The wedding cake is used to be white in every detail symbolizing its purity.
Together, they slice the wedding cake to announce their first duty in married life.
Pertaining to these it is also eaten by the newly-wed couples allegorizing their commitment to each other.

(You might want to check out my post about 41 weirdest wedding cake toppers. )

Tip: Do you know this wedding cake featured in an episode of a Korean TV film titled Kim Sam Soon? It was one of her “killer cakes” that time. It was made of cupcakes! Some pastry chef use sweet cupcakes and arranged it similar to croquembouche. They simply calls it "sweet cupcake wedding cakes". Definitely an eye-candy in the reception I bet.

Image Source: http://www.robineau.co.uk/weddings.asp

Most of the wedding cakes in this very minute also goes along with their preferred motifs. The most similar color tones of it the better. Bringing along with flowers, ribbons and even swarovski in it? You see, couples-to-be these days have so many options rather than a decades ago.