On Saturday at 7 a.m., Theodore was 14th in line at an Atlanta-area Sprint store, fidgeting for his new Pre. His wedding was scheduled for 8 a.m. As much as Theodore wanted Pre, he wanted his bride, Anita, to see him at the altar at the appointed time. At 7:45, he abandoned his wait and left his line-number and credit card information with a Sprint store employee, asking that he “hold the 14th phone for me.” The Sprint store employee obliged. Minutes after the recessional, the newlyweds returned to pick up their phone, spending the first minutes of married life with a Ready Now consultant who walked the happy couple through Pre’s setup and features. The new Mrs. Travis later revealed that her reaction was “You did what?” to her husband spending the hour before their wedding waiting for a phone, but later admitted, “I guess I kind of understand now.”

Oh Anita, wrap your arms around this dude and never let go. Nerds falling in love is a beautiful thing…but I give it six months. [Sprint via Pogue Original image via Myspace Graphics / Background image taken at U Village in Seattle last Friday night]

So this is me with my cake. I got married and this is what the wife got the Groom for his “man” cake. I’m special. The woman who made the cake took 18 hours to make this. It was most delicious even though I didn’t want to eat it. Yeah it says Cingular, yeah it’s still awesome.

Just thought I’d show you guys this awesome cake that I shared with awesome friends on my especially awesome day! :D

Thanks,
Bobby Casey – Giz reader and FAN

I like cake. I like weddings, as long as they are not my own. But an iPhone wedding cake? Come on, man! Have you lost your mind? Where’s your sense of elegance? Where’s your savoir faire? Everybody knows that you can’t freaking use a gadget for a damn wedding cake! That’s so naff!

No Bobby, you got it all wrong with this one. You should have gotten yourself a Death Star wedding cake. That is what I call class.

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The companies plan to use the Rocketplane XP suborbital spaceplane for this, at the cost of US$2.2 million per wedding. It’s not that expensive, considering that this will buy you a live broadcast of the marriage, a reception for your guests on the ground, original space wedding dress (whatever that means), transportation to the launch site, accommodations, four days of rehearsal and the obligatory photo and video album to show to your friends that your marriage started high before free-falling in flames onto the ground.

Alternatively, you can save yourself US$2.2 million, plus the money of the divorce or the vacation in Bermuda.

We used to argue and fight, we finally decided, we either take a vacation on Bermuda or get a divorce, one of the two things, and we discussed it very maturely, and we decided on the divorce, ’cause we felt we had a limited amount of money to spend, y’know. A vacation in Bermuda is over in two weeks, but a divorce is something that you’d always have. — Woody Allen

[Space Wedding via Pink Tentacle]

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Father’s Day is just two weeks away, kids! Maybe you ought to share with him one of your fascinations and see where he runs with it. [Steampunk Workshop via UberReview]