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Mrs. Hummingbird, Toronto Age and Occupation: 25, Publishing Coordinator Fiance's Age and Occupation: 24, Videogame Designer/Cartoonist Engagement Date: May 4, 2007 Wedding Date: June 28, 2008 Blogging Since: September 18, 2007 Venue: A garden wedding followed by a tented reception on Mr. Hummingbird's father's property. About Me: I’m a pop culture loving, vintage obsessed foodie living in Canada’s biggest city with my fantastic fiancé and our lovable fluffy cat Bettie. I’m stoked to marry my best friend and to throw what I hope will be the most fun and colourful party of our lives.
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Since, as I have mentioned before, Mr. Hum and I are full blown geeks, there are a number of elements to the wedding that are on the geeky side.

The very first geeky project that we started working on way back in the fall was the video game themed table signs and escort cards. We don’t have a hard and fast rule about where people are supposed to sit at the wedding, so we figured these would suffice and that as long as people knew which table they were assigned to, it would be okay.

The design process on these babies was pretty grueling for Mr. Hum (I stake no claim over the art stuff, that’s all him) because we got the silly little idea that each person attending the wedding would have a different video game character on their escort card, as well as a blurb on the back, explaining who his or her character was and what they did in their game.

In theory, this is an awesome idea. In practice, finding the art and information for 77 table cards is a gigantic pain in the ass.

But Mr. Hum is a toughie and once he sets his mind on something, he has to finish it. So the guy scoured every inch of the internet for pictures, he lived on wikipedia and he stayed up until 3 in the morning printing them but he finished them this week and they rock! Check it out!

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The cards en masse. I know this picture is really small but it was the only way I could fit them all into one shot!

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A shot from behind of all the card blurbs.

However, since taking huge shots of them made it a little difficult to see everything, I broke the cards down by table to make the detail a little easier to see. Plus I paired them with the table signs (which still need to be cut down to size) for the full effect. Onward to the tables!

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The Doom Table. We put a lot of our younger friends at this table since we figured they were more likely to get it.

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The Guitar Hero Table. Mr. Hum’s cousins are musically inclined/love this game so we made sure they were sitting here.

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The Pacman Table. Mr. Hum’s dad and stepmum requested this table specifically because they said it was the only video game they knew.

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The Super Mario Table. Again, we decided to put Mr. Hum’s aunts and uncles at a classic video game table since they were more likely to recognize it.

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The Street Fighter Table. My friend John specifically requested this table because he used to play this game as a kid.

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The Legend of Zelda Table. The Zelda one was tricky because there are so many different Zelda titles so we kind of mixed them up a bit. We made sure however to give Link to my younger cousin Jeffrey.

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The Viva Pinata Table. We were kind of back and forth on whether or not to include this game, but the colours sold us on it. 

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The Alice Table. Our young downtown hipster friends are sitting at this table.

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The Warcraft Table. Because Mr. Hum and I are gamers, we had to include this one.

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And finally, the head table, The Halo Table. Mr. Hum and I are Master Chief and Cortana!

And as an extra geektastic treat, while I was punching out and folding all of our cards (Mr. Hum did the hard design work, so I did the menial labour), I hung out with a cute little dude I picked up at the very awesome Silver Snail - Yoshi!

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I always play Yoshi in the Super Mario games so when I saw this little guy, I had to pick him up.

Anyway, now that we’re finally done, I want to hear from all you other folks out there in wedding land - what did you do when it came to your table signs and escort cards? Share your creativity!

*Please excuse the ghetto looking white blobs over people’s names as I had to do that for privacy’s sake.*

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Laura

Where is the WoW table??? I was looking forward to little Tauren and Draenei icons…

 
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Miss Pineapple (message)  682 posts, Busy bee

i love them! go ben! My favorites are definitely the 8-bit pac-man ones. I am sure they will be a great conversation piece at the reception.

 
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Mr. Hummingbird

Thanks Miss Pineapple!
Hmm, it does seem we don’t have a closeup of the WoW table or the Alice table. Our bad! We’ve just been working so hard leading up to the big day…

 
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Mr. Bluebell

Man.

This is too cool. Too damn cool.

 
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sillyinphilly (message)  40 posts, Newbee

these are fabulous! you can tell how much time and effort was put into them and it paid off in spades. i had to show this post to my boy and he said “good job”, too!

we’re finished up our table cards and still have to finish our escort cards (we’re just listing the table # on the tag of each person’s favor). we went “table numbers = years old” route with a photo of each of us at that age.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/deannastaffo/2488914009/in/set-72157604572786153/

not nearly as cool as yours.

 
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Jenny Louwheeze

These are awe-inspiring! I would love to be a guest at your wedding - very unique and fun! I’m having visions of you and your new husband making your grand entrance into the party to the Mario Brother’s theme song… aaaand now I’m gonna have that stuck in my head all day.

 
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Miss Gingerbread (message)  644 posts, Busy bee

Haha, this post brought the boys out! I knew that the Misters were secret weddingbee readers :)

 
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Miss Jellyfish (message)  1,423 posts, Bumble bee

so fun! i bet everyone is going to be reminiscing at their tables! love it

 
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Shay

This is perfect!! Its the personal touch that everyone should add to there wedding!!!

 
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Mrs.Sunflower

OMG! I love that idea. How did you get all those pictures so nice and clean?
We are doing table names after our favorite hockey team, but we are also including our furbabies in the pictures.

where is the WoW table? I know my FI and his friends would want to sit @ that table for sure!

 
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Tara

Miss Hummingbird, I LOVE your table signs and escort cards. I showed them to my boy and of course he loved them even more. Yoshi is my favorite Nintendo character. I have Yoshi’s Island for my DS. :)

 
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Jessica

I love your escort cards. I’d totally want the Toad card; he’s my favorite! I wanted to do video game couples for our table names, but my FI vetoed it. :( We still have yet to decide.

 
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Miss Hummingbird (message)  192 posts, Blushing bee

Dang! I left two pictures out. Mrs. Bee or Mr. Bee, can you fix this? I’ve amended the source post and put the missing pics in now.

 
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Junage

These are amazing! I’ve also given the job of coming up with table names and themes to the FI. He likes the video game idea, but really likes the idea of major league baseball teams.

 
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Miss Pomegranate (message)  957 posts, Busy bee

So flippin’ cute and incredibly creative!

 
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mhb

Oh. My. God. That’s all I have to say. You are both so awesome I can’t handle it. Dang.

 
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rzblna (message)  289 posts, Helper bee

Those are awesome!

 
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frenchbulldog (message)  7,730 posts, Bee Keeper

MASS KUDOS to Mr. Hum! So creative and I think your guest will really apreciate and enjoy those :)

 
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frenchbulldog (message)  7,730 posts, Bee Keeper

P.S. My sister and I weren’t allow to play video games growing up - my mom said she didn’t want up spending any MORE time infront of the TV, tear :( So I have NO idea about video games except Pac Man and soooome Mario Bros (from friends). Anyway the Viva Pinata table a light went on b/c a year ago my sister and I were getting ready in our hotel room one morning and the ONLY thing on was this cartoon about Pinatas - NOOOOOWWW I reallize it’s a video game.

 
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vee (message)  221 posts, Helper bee

that’s super cute and unique!

where did you get the lil stands for the table cards?

 
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Mrs. Hummingbird, Toronto Age and Occupation: 25, Publishing Coordinator Fiance's Age and Occupation: 24, Videogame Designer/Cartoonist Engagement Date: May 4, 2007 Wedding Date: June 28, 2008 Blogging Since: September 18, 2007 Venue: A garden wedding followed by a tented reception on Mr. Hummingbird's father's property. About Me: I’m a pop culture loving, vintage obsessed foodie living in Canada’s biggest city with my fantastic fiancé and our lovable fluffy cat Bettie. I’m stoked to marry my best friend and to throw what I hope will be the most fun and colourful party of our lives.

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