What I've been playing - Wedding Planner
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008 - 9:53am
Over Christmas I got my Girlfriend a new platform called Engagement Ring. It is a hand held platform, but it is definitely for the expanded market. Let me explain, as soon as the Ring goes on the finger it boots into Wedding Planner. Wedding planner interfaces with Internet browsers directing them to websites where the truly sinister aspect of the platform is revealed. Where some game models are based on Micro payments to allow users to continue, this game works on MEGA payments. Your wedding needs flowers, pay an obscene amount to some botanical pirate and you can proceed to the next MEGA payment. It even has some strange Geo-caching component that forces you to go out and make more Mega Payments for items like a license. I keep begging her to use the cheat code that sends you on vacation and when you come back you are married, but to no avail. I will admit that I am looking forward to the ending, but the rest of the game feels like a real grind.
What I am trying to get at with this played out joke is that I am now officially engaged to a woman I love very much and I want to tell everyone I can. I also want to become a part of this community in a way that is less bitchy fanboy because I fear I may have come across that way.
*edit honestly this would probably be a very successful DS title.
Keep trying to convince her to elope. It's cheaper and both families will secretly thank you.
Semper Delectatio
Xbox Live - Cannibal GWJ XFire - cannibalcrowley
Strawberry Shortcake bricked my 360 on December 17, 2008.
Oh! I thought you were talking about this.
Congrats on your engagement, Old Man (although it sounds like you've been engaged for some time now?)!
DS and I kinda feel the same way as you do about weddings. It's taken us forever to plan ours, because neither one of us wants to wade through the overpriced and largely irrelevant bullhokey that is the Wedding Industry. Plus, overbearing parents are a real drag (mine, not his). Wait until your future parents-in-law start butting in with their "suggestions". That's been my favorite part so far. Ugh.
"Today's Tom Sawyer, he gets high on you, Kat. You." - Haakon7
My Website v. 3.0
I remember playing that game once. We kept ours low key and casual. It was a fall wedding and we had it in a park pavilion and had it catered buffet-style. In general the guests appreciated the casual atmosphere where they could use their hands to eat the roasted pig (on a spit, no less) without having to worry about their suits and dresses.
Our biggest point of contention ended up being who to invite. We wanted to keep the guest list small, but it kept on growing as per the parents/in-laws/random relatives/friends' 'suggestions', just as Katerin said.
Xbox Live: NOVOCAIN1217
That game blows. Try the Elope Master and Better Honeymoon bundle. The first game is a one-timer, but the second has serious replay value.
IronClad Online: PurEvil
I played that game when it was coded for the Intel386 21 years ago. Even then, the Mega Payments totaled over $10k at 1986 prices. 120 of our closest friends and family, catered meal with open bar, honeymoon in Quebec at the Le Château Frontenac.
I can only imagine what a full-blown shindig costs these days. Let us know the bottom line, if you don't mind.
I'm not lost. I'm locationally challenged.
Spore Profile
We have been living together for about three years. Hell as far as the law is concerned I am married. However, this year is the year we finally go through with the pleasantries.
I strongly suggest getting the Las Vegas mod.
"This is way, way more bad boy than you're gonna be able to handle." - Tommy Gavin on Rescue Me.
Xbox Live: AbsolutTexan
My home on the web
I've played this game and did not enjoy it. Would not recommend.
XBL: Shidarin
Gaming Blog - http://www.grenadehop.com/
Is this an MMO? How's the co-op?
Elysium: The democratization of the web ... has installed an illusion of a digital first amendment that protects speech no matter how poorly spelled or stupid.
XBL: E Munnie
elementsofmeaning.blogspot.com
hehe, ohh god this brings back nightmares! I am glad my wife had a level head about our wedding and I was incharge of getting the food.
It only cost us all of 2k to get married thanks to a bunch of stuff donated from various people in and around both families. The BBQ Chicken and Ribs was the best too!!! I felt myself rushing through my vows to get to them
My brother went the other way and I dont see how he is going to pay it off in less than 3-4 years from now.. screw that its not worth it
Just remember your thank you cards for the gifts otherwise you get some upset people 
Xfire: Pharacon
Tempest says: "A team hat doe snot communicate and talk to each other about what the next move will be is going to lose."
Mex is my hero = "f*ck it, I'll do it. WE'LL DO IT LIVE."
The wife and I did pretty much exactly the same thing. We rented a lodge in a state park and had about 50-60 people there. Including the wedding dress, decorations, site, food, minister and everything, we came in at under $4000 (I did leave the rings out of that equation though).
It was a lot of work on our part planning everything in the most financially sound manner, but in the end it was a beautiful wedding, a beautiful day and everyone who attended had a fabulous time.
WoW Blackhand Alliance: Baylie (Resto Druid)
Careful with the cheat codes.
The man wears a bucket of KFC on his head. I wouldn't expect anything less. - Pred
Congratulations!
The wedding industry is one giant scam, though with a little bit of luck and a lot of craftiness it is still possible to pull off a relatively inexpensive but still nice wedding.
My pieces of advice:
Take a gander through the myriad of wedding-books out there, some of them might have advice you find useful. Dont buy them though if you can help it, a lot of them are likely to show up in a nearby library. If you are not that lucky, there are always a ton of sucker who did buy them and now want to get rid of them used.
Find one or more online communities dedicated to the subject. My wife joined the LiveJournal wedding community, and gleaned lots of useful information there. We found a rather inexpensive flower shop there, and a (at the time) dirt cheap photographer.
Once you find something wedding-related that is at the right place, try to pay for it as soon as possible. Even amongst the less scammy of the wedding industry scam, prices seem to rize frequently, and they always increase at the end/beginning of the year. For example, we signed our contract with the photographer many months in advance, and by the time of the actual wedding her prices were two or three times what we were paying.
Don't stress too much, or at all if you can help it. A milliong things will go wrong before the wedding, and a bazillion or so will go 'wrong' that day. As long as you just roll with the punches, none of that will end up mattering.
Looks like I picked a good day to be too busy to read Twitter. So much bitching, you'd think people forgot how to use the back button -- Certis
Beware: Flowers for the wedding will be surprisingly expensive. That was the one expense I thought was pretty crazy.
XBox Live: PoppinfreshGWJ
LobsterMobster wrote:
I got mine through the local grocery store...they were less than half the price yet gorgeous. Lots of compliments.
Congrats...and elope if you can, hehe.
Thanks for all the advice, I am definitely going to keep the cost down. Thankfully she is not the type to over indulge in expensive things. We should actually be able to do it pretty cheap, but some things are still giving me sticker shock.
No and no. No co-op, only PvP.
Fedaykin98 wrote:
wordsmythe wrote:
I'll be in Trammel.
Elysium: The democratization of the web ... has installed an illusion of a digital first amendment that protects speech no matter how poorly spelled or stupid.
XBL: E Munnie
elementsofmeaning.blogspot.com
That's the Bachelor Party service pack.
Be very careful when installing and playing it. There have been multiple reports of it causing horrible damage to the system, if not total destruction.
LiquidMantis wrote:
I have never played this game, but have watched others do so with varying degrees of success. I currently have a pay-to-play subscription based game, going on 11 years now, but have not yet purchased a lifetime membership.
Grats Old Man, enjoy and good luck.
"History is'a made at night! Character is what you are in the dark!" - Lord John Whorfin
There's no PvP in Trammel. Me? I'll be in Felucca waiting for my sweet, sweet co-op.
But on a more serious note the missus and I got married on the 22nd of December and we went the "cheap" route. Rented a hall with food, payed for the paperwork and officiant, and invited the family. All in all we got more in wedding gifts than we spent on the wedding, it payed for itself. I recommend that route to anyone.
Trust me, you'll enjoy the 6 minute ceremony...
Damned, now I want to get back into UO... Damn you wordsmythe!
Trammel is a land of co-op without PvP. It's like the second 2-player option on the NES TMNT games.
Sucker.
Elysium: The democratization of the web ... has installed an illusion of a digital first amendment that protects speech no matter how poorly spelled or stupid.
XBL: E Munnie
elementsofmeaning.blogspot.com