Star Wars wedding

After last week we brought you the heart warming fairytale story of a couple deciding to marry as Shrek and Fiona, this week’s look at unique wedding ideas, brings us to a couple who happily planned a Star Wars Wedding.

With the groom deciding to dress as Captain Han Solo, the bride (of course) opted to be his love interest from the movie – Princess Leia.
Duncan Thomson, 41, and Sammi Gardiner, 39, chose the unusual wedding ceremony after their obsession with the classic Star Wars movies, surrounded by their wedding guests who were also asked to dress as characters from the films.

Star Wars Day – May the 4th be with you.

Choosing the unofficial annual “Star Wars Day” of May the 4th as their wedding date, for those of you who are not quite up with the films, the date is significant as the happy couple billed the wedding as “May the 4th be with you” – if you still don’t get that, it’s a pun on the movies famous phrase.

The couple from the Isle of Wight even went as far as to invite the creator of Star Wars, George Lucas. Unfortunately the director was unable to attend the wedding, possibly due to the fact his wookie costume was at the dry cleaners, possibly not. In actual fact Lucas returned a RSVP letter to the couple bearing his Skywalker Ranch stamp saying he could not make it.

May the 4th be with you.

Star Wars Wedding Vows

Using the movies scenes to exchange their marital vows, Mr Thomson wowed his bride with such vows as “I promise to protect you from carbon freezing and promise to protect you from the Dark Side, through hyperspace and into the far reaches of the galaxy.”

During the Star Wars wedding ceremony in Shanklin, on the Isle of Wight, the groom’s best man was his 18-year-old son Kieren who (of course) played the role of Han Solo’s sidekick Chewbacca, and his daughter Charlotte was dressed as Queen Padme Amidala.

The wedding even had a Darth Vader, hopefully a friendly version, who delivered the readings, again in the style of Star Wars scripts. Vader was “protected” at the wedding by two of his Imperial Stormtroopers, whilst reading verses such as “Members of the Galactic Empire, Duncan and Sammi met a long time ago, in a place far, far away. The force is strong with these two.” And “If you do not underestimate the power of marriage then together you can rule your house as husband and wife.”

According to our source, Duncan and Sammi chose the unusual wedding theme after their romantic first date 4 years before was a trip to a cinema, where they (of course) watched Star Wars – Revenge of the Sith.

As UK law does not allow any religious references in civil services, the couple had to omit certain terms from their unique wedding vows as the word “Jedi” is now a recognised religious religion in this country. Bizarre but true.

We’d love to see the wedding video – hopefully the videographer used plenty of the dramatic musical score in the background.

Having found a Shrek wedding and now a Star Wars wedding, Essex Wedding Services is on the look out for more unique or strange wedding themes, if you spot any, keep us posted and we’ll do our homework to get something on the blog.

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