Random: Lovely Couple Gets Wedding Photos Taken In Video Game Store

oh, Christine. oh, honey. honey, no.
Christine, you can do better.

Every tastes are valid they say. I wish them happiness though.

Add some Super Mario Odyssey set pieces and it'd be perfect.

A shining example of how epic gamers don’t have to be single.

Bowser's gonna come in and kidnap that bride

That's wonderfully wholesome, but if the GameStops in my area are any indication, I certainly wouldn't want my wedding photos taken there.

At first I was confused, but it’s sweet they went to the place they first met, even if it was a video game shop. 😛 Best wishes to them in their marriage!

Well, I guess I didn't have to click on this.

I still remember when it was just Electronics Boutique. But anyway, all the best to the couple.

@Charlie_Girl
We get it, you hate men.
Pipe down, now.

I bet it was her idea though

Taste may be relative but this is so tacky and uninspired that it feels like an insult to the relationship. Even if they shared the hobby, there are still more scenic, artistic, and respectful locations for a photo shoot. Nothing against the game store or the efficiency of its layout, mind you, but get a good sunrise out on a hill or an underwater aquarium or a cathedral or something!

@Charlie_Girl In what aspect(s) are you referring to?

That's cute. They look like a lovely couple.

I think it's important to seek out a person you share interests with in addition to finding attractive in general. I am certain my parents loved each other but they had so few interests in common that aside from specific family-centric events, it always felt like they were just tolerating each other's hobbies and interests.

Marriage is - in my mind at least - supposed to be a lifelong partnership. You are going to have a rough time spending your life with someone with whom you don't have any ordinary shared interests.

By "ordinary" I mean non-lover, non-couple related things.

@Charlie_Girl

For every person that thinks you’re referring to her future spouse, there is another reason I don’t want to live anymore. 😂

@Charlie_Girl Your comment is beyond outrageous, I think it's none of your business whether she "deserves" better or less. She has her reasons for being with who she pleases, unlike you having no good reasons for writing dumb sh** like that.

"No, we're not making a reference to the next Nintendo console or latest entry in the Pokémon series"
...
Damn, it was close.

@robr Maybe elaborate instead of posting more confusing stuff like this, because many have taken that comment at face value.

I'm guessing song reference, but I clearly have no idea. Please enlighten.

I'd play Phoenix Wright: Divorce Attorney lol tired of ass pulls and murders. Can you keep the kids and money or are you doomed like Jeff Bezos? Is there a prenup foreshadowing. But yeah hope the couple does well.

@Heavyarms55 marriage is the ultimate game of tolerance. That's why stuff fizzles, plus as I learned to adopt fall girls so to speak, I find it hard to really treat 1 lady i love that much different from any other. And by fall girl, I mean if something bad happens she will take the fall rather than me pay to win and suffer before I get a real choice. I'll try to make amends of course but I learned from that fall guy video with Cris Carter/Warren Sapp.

I'm also being rewarded more than when i used to salvage a relationship at all costs and tank debts/damage. World is complicated and so should our relationships imo.

Did the EB employees try to get them to preorder some games?

@Charlie_Girl You're gonna get lit up for that comment and rightfully so. That's a pretty ignorant thing to say without knowing anything about the couple. Just be happy for people who are happy!

@RunninBlue Maybe they got a copy of Just Dance for the reception later?

@Charlie_Girl So can the nintendolife comment section

Lovely! Wish them all the best!

@KingBowser86 is an underwater aquarium a glass box in the ocean where people live and breathe air and fish watch? I hope so

@MrVariant I'm sorry, I am not trying to be rude, but I have no idea what you're saying. I think I get the part about things fizzling, but the rest of your comment has me completely lost.

Really, I am sorry, I don't want to be insulting but I just don't understand.

@rxchrisg Safe from predators, fed regularly — you could look at it that way. So...yes?

EB is under game stop? Huh, I wondered.

@Heavyarms55 it's fine. In simple terms I mean until debt do we part. If you're in an arrangement with a freeloader, he/she has to shoulder the blame if something goes bad from their actions/neglect. Salvaging only to risk losing half my stuff isn't an option. In short, imagine if Mario went after someone who didn't get kidnapped to keep things fresh.

Press-Start is one of my go-to sites for gaming news, so I already knew about this.

I'm not religious so weddings and everything surrounding them aren't my cup of tea, but this is still kinda cute.

My girlfriend and I became acquainted online, but the first time we saw each other IRL, we went to a concert together. We've been to more concerts in those premises since then and it still feels like a special place to me almost ten years later (this June), even though it's a pretty shabby building.

@Zuljaras I think you misunderstood the comment. It's not that you HAVE to have the same interests as the person you love, it's that having mutual interests outside couple stuff is healthy for a relationship, and not having those mutual interests can make it tougher.

My girlfriend is a good example I guess, we share virtually no non-couple interests. Sometimes it can be hard to make an effort because many things aren't something you'd just wake up and say "damn this is what I want to do today, hell yeah!".

Of course many things are like this no matter what, but there are a great deal more of them if you don't have mutual non-couple interests.

Fortunately I've begun mildly corrupting her (only took what, 9 years?) so now we play mario party and just dance every now and then, and if it's a REALLY good day I might get to laugh at her for 30 minutes while she fails at Breath of the Wild or some other game where she needs to actually use the controller properly. 30 minutes being the limit of her patience with games where she can fail because she keeps forgetting the location of the individual button inputs.

@Venus_Adept Pokemon Spouse and Pokemon Domestic Partner

I wonder if she got the scratch protection.

Wow, a lot of overthinking going on here. Couple first meet in game store, decide to have a nice wedding photo taken where they met. Guaranteed it’s not their only wedding photo. Not the first to do this or the last, so what?!?

@Zuljaras it's not like it's a mandatory thing, just a coincidental and happy bonus, I guess.

@Charlie_Girl I'm sure you go against sexist people, but you are being sexist with these comments, well done, great day for feminism

Are we sure this isn't just one of those random stock photos?

Well, congratulations to the happy couple!

@Charlie_Girl more snark from the most miserably negative person on here. Jesus, get some happiness.

@Zuljaras How on Earth is it selfish?! That is one of the most absurd and insulting things I have ever heard in my life on the subject! Finding a partner with whom you have shared interests is not only not selfish (emphasis on the SHARED aspect there, in case I wasn't clear enough) but necessary! A healthy lasting relationship requires things more than simple lust and mutual financial interest. When you are getting married it's a lifelong commitment to someone. But if you don't have anything you enjoy doing with each other beyond making babies and going out on dates, that relationship is doomed.

"You have to love the person not his/her interests" Why are these things mutually exclusive in your mind? How CAN you love someone with whom you share nothing in common? Once the two of you satisfy your lust and pop out a couple kids is the rest of your life just gonna be paying bills and talking about the news?

Of course you don't marry someone only because of their interests, that would be as insane as marrying someone with whom you share nothing.

@Charlie_Girl What's "better" than marrying someone who shares your interests? Also, implying that he's not good enough for her after reading a single paragraph or two from an article is completely ignorant. I sincerely hope you're not that kind of person.

@MrVariant That's a pretty depressing outlook. I mean, I suppose you do have to be careful on money issues and certainly have to avoid being used by a gold-digger(or being one yourself) but I feel as though, if both people are committed to each other, have shared interests, and want the relationship to work out, then the money issues can always be overcome.

Course I could be seen as overly optimistic on that point.

@Heavyarms55 I get you but after a certain amount of negative patterns and relationships, it is my responsibility to safeguard myself since I now know better. Doesn't mean I can't be happy, just think of it as a type of insurance.

@Zuljaras "The person comes first, the hobbies comes second."

"You basically put the interests above the personality of your partner."

I don't remotely even understand how these can be separate things. How can you understand a person, their personality, who they are, without taking into account their interests? What they like, the things they enjoy, the places they enjoy, the food they like, their politics, their family, their life choices, the stories they enjoy, the issues they care about, their humor, their ethics... What else even is a person? What is this separate personality you suggest exists? I don't understand.

How can you bind yourself to a person, commit to a person, how can you fall in love with someone with whom you share none of those sorts of things?

I only have my own life experiences and my observations of others to go on. Those I have known who share interests in their relationships have been happy, while those who don't haven't or have even fully broken up or divorced. Especially when not only do their interest not align, but in fact contradict. Differences of opinions on both religion and politics nearly destroyed my parents' marriage on more than one occasion.

But I guess, in the end, what the heck do I know? I am single and have no real desire to even attempt to change that. Honestly I get to the end of this comment and find myself even questioning why I felt the need to debate it - since I have no hope of, nor real desire to ever seek this sort of thing out myself.

If for some reason you're still reading, sorry for wasting your time. - and I take back the comment about being insulting and apologize. Thank you for talking reasonably with me about this.

@MrVariant Well best of luck to you. I hope you never need to safeguard yourself in the manner you seem to be suggesting might be needed.

@Zuljaras I've spent a lot of time thinking about the topic, and it is why I have no desire to seek out a relationship. "If I was looking at others I would too lose my faith in humanity." I wouldn't go so far as to say I've lost my faith in humanity as a whole - but the general idea of this statement is actually a pretty accurate description of me. My opinions are formed based off of observations everyone I have known, my own limited relationship experiences, and my own research on the topic.

One thing I am not is miserable however. On occasion I do get a little lonely, but aside from thinking I probably deserve to be, it rarely lasts long and I am perfectly content being single about 98% of the time.

Besides, there are more than 7 billion people on this rock. No need for me to contribute to that number.

I met my gaymer husband through a gaming group we have in my local city. A group of us would meet up every weekend and play 3DS because it started as a way to get StreetPass tags and then as more games got released (Mario Kart 7 was HUGE with us), we started turning it in to a weekly gaming afternoon. Then it expanded in to putting on house parties and BBQs at the beach. It was at this BBQ, 6 years ago, that I met the love of my life and my Forever Player 2!!! So yes, video games (and specifically Nintendo) can bring people together!

@KingBowser86 Yes, why go get a wedding photo taken at a place that means something significant to the both of them and have it done at a cliche backdrop because its more "respectable"? The store clearly means a lot to them and even played a role in their relationship since they met there, so I think it is very appropriate and actually very cool. Its something different and provides a great story for them to share.

@flapjack-ashley Don't care. A store? Shelves? Kitschy children's merchandise? Surely they have more in common and more commonalities than a game store. Because if not, lemme tell ya, it isn't going to work out.

Good grief, this comment section went downhill after I went to bed. Can't we just APPRECIATE the fact that this couple tied the knot and wish them well? We know absolutely nothing about them besides the fact that they share a hobby that nearly everyone else here enjoys. What business is it of ours where they get their wedding photos taken?

@PuddleStink Best Avatar ever!!

The ignore button is your friend....

It saddens me that week after week, these comments sections are becoming so damn toxic.

@Charlie_Girl *Everyone disliked that

@EVIL-C

Fair enough. Her overtly sassy tone came across as a non-malicious, cheeky ribbing and not a sincere and damning judgement on the couple. My immediate conclusion would be that she's poking at our current culture of infantilism and the act of getting wedding photos taken at a video game store. Diving deeper, she could also be joking about the nature of some people out there that spend too much free time critically analyzing whether or not so-and-so is pulling off the "perfect wedding".

Benefit of the doubt and all, I'm sure she "awed" at the cute couple taking photos where they first met. In the western society of 2019, no normal person under the age of 65 actually cares about whether or not someone else chooses to get married, what they wear, whether or not they have a ceremony or any thing else related to marriage. So, that's the presumptive baseline I'm choosing to apply here.

Likewise, you can apply that logic to my own commentary. I might playfully roll my eyes at them, but I also, genuinely, do not care about how a random couple goes about doing wedding photos. If I did, that would just be insanity.

I'm worried that my next paragraph will come across as a wannabe know-it-all armchair authority, talking down on people from the mountaintops. But, here goes...

I previously worked for a designer, and with our vendors, and still have immediate family in the bridal industry. In my experience, when someone has an unhealthy obsession with weddings, they typically do not limit their commentary to a three sentence quip.
Generally, a mental illness (whether temporary or lifelong) affects them in such a way where they're pretty out of control, aggressive, and just aren't capable of putting anything to rest.

I'm not recognizing that sort of behavior here, and knowing that, generally, your average western society person doesn't actually give a hoot about weddings (myself, included), either way; with my context goggles on, I just don't find it likely that she was sincerely passing judgement.

The short hand version is: it's about the video game store.
And I'm a jerk for also making fun of that. But, no one in their right mind is going to actively try and prohibit them from doing what makes them happy.

@Venus_Adept thanks 😀

@robr My reaction to this story was: Couple who likes video games, married in the store they met in. Cool. That's all.

Her comment, at face value, seemed to be criticizing the woman's new husband, implying she could "do better". Why? Cause they got married at a game store; a hobby they both like?

Since she's not clarifying anything or defending herself, I'm starting to think the majority here were correct with their reaction. If so, she's a sad individual, but also a lost cause. W/E.

Nice that 2 people who like each other found each other. That's what the point here is. That's all. Shame she had to derail it right off the bat with her BS.

At least they hadn't met at a Funcoland, and this store still existed by the time they got married

@EVIL-C

I agree with all of those points.

Something I've noticed, though. I stepped it up a notch, beyond picking on the cute couple, and took a jab at just about everyone in the comment section. The only response I got was your polite one asking for clarification.

Sure, maybe this has to do with top comment phenomena, but there are a lot of posts going after her for her words, while I'm walking scot-free.

I haz a feeling it was a joke, you guys. Maybe take it down a couple of notches.

@Agent721 One reason I don't post as often as I used to, alas!

I got wedding pictures taken with Zelda's sword from Twilight Princess.

@Charlie_Girl yeah she should look for a “feminist” right?