me@matrimony: Help me plan the video game portion of my wedding...
This entry was posted on 5/22/2007 9:56 AM and is filed under Wedding-Planning.
No. There will not be any video game consoles set up at my upcoming wedding.
No. There will not be a figurine of Link and Zelda atop the wedding cake.
No. The Xbox Live Marketplace is not included on my wedding registry.
But there will be a video game connection to my and my fiancee's wedding. Our idea -- and I am sure you will think I came up with this, but it was actually her idea -- is to subtly name each of the tables in our wedding reception after something video-game-related. We've considered naming the tables based on video game characters or even video games. But naming tables Kratos and Master Chief just sound weird. And asking anyone to sit at a "Galaga" table or a "Full Spectrum Warrior" table involves crossing a nerd threshold I just won't transgress.
So we're thinking of naming the tables based on video game locales.
Here's our starter list:
1 - Hyrule
2 - Zebes
3 - The Mushroom Kingdom
4 - Rainbow Road
5 - Zanzibar Land
6 - Liberty City
7 - San Andreas
8 - Azeroth
9 - City 17
10 - Myst Island
11 - Sim City
12 - Raccoon City
13 - Silent Hill
14 - New Mombasa
Now we need at least six more, because we're going to have 20 or so tables. I've fielded a couple of new suggestions already -- Sera, Rubacava, Midgar, Hyllis, Daventry, Rapture, and Dracula's Castle.
Here's the thing: as I brainstorm names and get suggestions from others I realize that I prefer less obviously game-nerd-sounding ones. I prefer names like Raccoon City and Silent Hill. I could be wrong. I could get overruled by a certain someone. And, sure, we've got to have Hyrule in there, because it's just funny enough.
It's just that, while I expect most of these names to go over the heads of most of the folks there, I want our guests to be able to pronounce them and think they're funny more than they think they just look and sound weird (which is why Zebes is probably a bad choice).
The floor is now open, dear readers. Please suggest some names and tell me what you think we should do. My wedding, and therefore the rest of my life, depends on this.
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