Tips and Tricks for Incorporating Gaming into your Wedding Day
It's going to be one of the happiest days of your life, so all the things that make you happy should be incorporated into your day. Family, friends, colour schemes and gaming. Yep, you read that correctly - Gaming. Everyone who knows me and my partner knows that we are avid gamers, we even met on Twitch. For this reason, we wanted gaming to have a big presence on our wedding day because it is a big part of who we are and a big aspect of our relationship.
For our wedding ceremony itself, we incorporated gaming in a very subtle way. We chose three pieces of music to play as our processional & recessional music and also whilst signing the marriage register. If you're curious, we chose 'Romance in the Air' from The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword for processional, 'For River' from To The Moon for signing the register and 'Fossil Falls' from Super Mario Odyssey for recessional.
We did not have a traditional wedding reception and instead opted for a party with all of our family and friends, this is where we really let our love for gaming shine.
Traditionally at weddings the bride and groom have a post box available for guests to post their wedding cards. We did the same but with a twist; Ours was a question block from Super Mario!
I made this post box by hand with friends a few days before the wedding, it consisted of buying a cardboard cube and spray-painting it yellow. This took a few coats of spray paint to make sure it was a solid yellow.
Once the paint had dried, I took 4x Mario question marks that I'd printed and cut them out and stuck them to 4 sides of the box.
Next, to treat our guests we invested in a piñata in the shape of a pokeball, which we stuffed full of sweets, stickers and miniature Pokémon figurines. This went down a storm as people took turns hitting the piñata while the Pokémon theme song was blasted out of the speakers. This was such a big hit and I would recommend this 100%, nobody is too old for a piñata! Some other ideas I had for the piñata before deciding on the pokeball were: Mario Star, Mario Question Block, Mario 1Up Mushroom, the ideas are endless, and if you search Etsy you will likely find that someone has created these for purchase!
Finally, one of the most important parts of the wedding party - the wedding cake. There are endless ideas you can find online for gaming wedding cakes. While researching I found some very clever Portal wedding cakes as well as ones that were formal on one side, and gaming themed on the other side.
The design we ended up choosing consisted of a 1 tier white wedding cake at the top of a cupcake tower. As you can see from the photo, we went with a Super Mario theme. The top tier featured the Mario and Peach wedding amiibo's from the Super Mario Odyssey set, which were generously gifted to us by a friend.
The lower tiers hosted an assortment of red and green Mario mushrooms, with each cupcake case decorated with the eyes. It looked absolutely stunning and, of course, tasted delicious - we were very fortunate to have close family friends work on our wedding cake, so we were able to have it exactly as we pictured it. If you want to top it off even more perfectly, you can cut your wedding cake with the Master Sword like we did!
So these are just a few pointers that you may consider for incorporating gaming into your own wedding day. Have any of you had a gaming themed wedding? Let me know what you chose in the comments!