Weddingbee Blog

Recently someone forwarded me an article about a husband’s addiction to Warcraft leading to dissolution of a marriage. The article surprised me a bit because, instead of bringing about relationship doom, I’ve felt like video games have been good for our relationship, especially lately, as Mr. Hummingbird and I have been spending a lot of time gaming together.

Before I met Mr. Hum, I have to admit, I didn’t care about gaming. For a long time, the only exposure I had to video games was when I would go over to my friend Oscar’s house and play Duck Hunt on his first generation Nintendo (remember when you had to blow on the cartridges to get them to work?).

Anyway, I never really owned my own system and had no interest in buying one until I started dating Mr. Hum. He had an X-Box and on one of our first dates, he invited me over to play Soul Caliber. Since I had never played before, I was far from a sophisticated player with combo moves, but somehow my button mashing skills worked and I trounced him, not once, not twice, but six matches in a row.

After that, I became more and more interested in playing and now, it’s gotten to the point that, in addition to our two computers, we have four gaming systems in our house, two of which were bought at my insistence.

With the all the work and planning we’ve been putting into our big day lately, I’ve found that having a fun distraction like a gaming system in the house has been absolutely invaluable. Not only can we use it to settle arguments about ridiculous wedding issues (”Winner of this round gets to pick favours!”), but it’s been a valuable stress reliever, a way for us to put aside the wedding and just be goofy for a while. It’s funny, I never thought it would be the case, but sometimes after a very long day of dealing with dress stuff, I feel more at ease as Princess Daisy than I do as a Princess Bride.

Anyway, since it’s the weekend and time for fun, I want to know - what fun/silly hobby or pastime do you share with your FI/DH?