Some Newlyweds Are Trading Dance Floors for Gaming Floors

Out with the smooth moves, in with the video game consoles.

By Kristy Alpert (a freelance journalist and children’s book author whose video game prowess started, and ended, with Super Nintendo).

Bride, left, wearing a sleeveless V-cut white dress, and groom, standing next to her in a dark vest and white shirt, each hold a game console, while looking intently at an unseen screen reflected in the groom's glasses. Guests look on behind them in a room with exposed brick walls.

Credit…Dale Stephens Photography

The dinner was over, the speeches were finished and all that remained for the newly married Dayna and Gary Yendell was a first dance.

Only there was no dance floor. No D.J. And no chance of suddenly becoming a couple who enjoyed moving to music.

Instead, the couple settled in behind a split-screen TV at their Wiltshire, England, reception venue, controllers in hand as the familiar sounds of Mario Kart serenaded their first game as a married couple.

“We’ve been to many weddings with dancing, and it’s just not our thing,” Ms. Yendell, who works in quality compliance, explained. “Video games played a big part in our relationship, so we were determined to incorporate it into the wedding somehow.”

Instead of a first dance, Dayna and Gary Yendell kicked off married life with a Mario Kart duel, cheered on by guests watching on a split-screen TV. In sticking with the theme, video-game cartridges doubled as decor.

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