\n June 9, 2025 <\/p>\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/pokemongowedding.webp.webp\")
<\/p>\n
Last week saw the announcement of Oshi no Ko wedding dresses and a tuxedo<\/a>, but this is far from the only otaku franchise involved with weddings! In fact, at last weekend\u2019s Pok\u00e9mon Go Fest, which attracted more than 50,000 people, a wedding took place for a couple who originally met while playing the game.<\/p>\n \u201cSo I was trying to catch\u2019em all, and I caught a soul mate in the process,\u201d said Sandra Dorgo to ABC News, which covered the story.<\/p>\n Their relationship goes back four years. Sandra, a nurse, posted in a Pok\u00e9mon Go community chat local to her home in Ontario, Canada, looking to do a trade for Corsola. Les Dorgo, a firefighter who also lives in Ontario, had Corsola.<\/p>\n \u201cHey, let\u2019s make a date of this,\u201d Les recalls saying at the time. \u201cLet\u2019s meet up, we\u2019ll make a trade.\u201d<\/p>\n They traveled to places like Los Angeles and France together to catch Pok\u00e9mon. From LA they went to Mexico, and said they got weird looks at customs when they explained their reason for travel. Together they\u2019ve caught more than 600,000 Pok\u00e9mon!<\/p>\n Eventually they got engaged. People behind Pok\u00e9mon Go heard about it, and they volunteered to not only fly them to the Pok\u00e9mon Go Fest for free, but to host their actual wedding there!<\/p>\n Little tweaks were made to the wedding to include the franchise. For instance, when the bride walked down the aisle, a piano rendering of Pok\u00e9mon\u2019s theme song played instead of more traditional music. Along with a priest and their family, there was a person in a Pikachu costume. And their cake was naturally Pok\u00e9mon-themed, with the characters Chansey and Squirtle on top. Chansey is wearing a nurse\u2019s hat and Squirtle has donned a fireman\u2019s helmet.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was magical,\u201d gushed Sandra.<\/p>\n Best wishes to the newlyweds!<\/p>\n Source: ABC News<\/a><\/p>\n ____<\/p>\n Danica Davidson is the author of the bestselling\u00a0Manga Art for Beginners\u00a0<\/a>with artist Melanie Westin, plus its sequel,\u00a0Manga Art for Everyone<\/a>, and the first-of-its-kind manga chalk book\u00a0Chalk Art Manga<\/a>, both illustrated by professional Japanese mangaka Rena Saiya. Check out her other comics and books at\u00a0www.danicadavidson.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon Go Fest Hosts Wedding For Couple Who Met Through the Game by Danica Davidson June 9, 2025…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3162],"tags":[53,16,15,3243,3244],"class_list":{"0":"post-174278","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-virtual-reality","8":"tag-technology","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-virtual-reality","12":"tag-vr"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114661880470280772","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}