One of the trends I’ve found most interesting in the last few years has been the proliferation of what can only be called nerd weddings. There have always been those dorks who got all gussied up in their RenFaiyre finest and Spock ears to go get hitched Tolkien-style in the woods (or at GenCon), but dork nuptials have hit the mainstream in an undeniable fashion complete with giant white dresses, buzzing swarms of photographers and caterers, fancy locations, and federal bailout levels of expense . Nowhere is this more apparent than in the burgeoning demand for shatteringly geeky wedding cakes, “no really, made by a real baker with real fondant and everything” ziggurats of matrimonial pastry. Without further ado, three awesome, highly nerdy wedding cakes:
I hear you asking, SFW? Well, I suppose I think it’s interesting because it’s just another moment for us to look at where our little corner of the culture is and where it’s headed. Nerds, to quote Michael Krahulik, run shit out here in the real world. We are adults, we are getting hitched to the partners we choose to spend our lives with, and we are throwing around shitsheds of cash to make a perfect day the way we envision it. Weddings are where a society articulates its vision of joy, of wholeness, of beauty. Nerd weddings express the ideals of nerdy people, true, but they also intrude into the culture at large, working as another vector for the normalization of the previously-marginalized.
Every nerd wedding is a fist in the air.
-ssr
p.s. As requested:
Makes me wanna get married again (to the same person) and have a super duper nerdy wedding, not just a slightly nerdy one.
You forgot the Alien cake.
Your wish, she is my command.