Sipping Vulcan cocktails: A Star Trek wedding

Even though the big-budget Star Trek film was one of the hit movies of 2009, the idea of incorporating the classic TV series into one's wedding planning may strike some as a little, well, geeky.

But when Alissa Mellis and Justin Gruba tied the knot at the Detroit Science Center's Star Trek exhibit on Saturday, the event sounded like a sexy sci-fi celebration rather than an exercise in nerd culture.

The couple won a contest sponsored by the museum and decided to design a "cocktail party of the future," complete with Violet Vulcans vodka-and-Chambord beverages, the Detroit Free Press reports.

Exotic plants served as centerpieces, the bar featured a Star Trek logo, and each dinner item was named after a character from one of the show's seasons. Some guests got into the spirit and dressed in shiny futuristic garb.

"Marriage is a journey and an adventure," Gruba said after finding out he and Mellis had won the Detroit Science Center's contest. "Like the voyage of Star Trek we will boldly go into an unknown future together."

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