Although a life long gamer who turned my obsession into a career, it was only when I joined Frag Dolls in 2005 that I really became a part of the gaming community. It was then that I met Dan Bendon. As we ran around shooting terrorists, flanking Nazis and destroying monsters we grew to know each other well. Time spent together in real life let our relationship become real and rounded as we found we had more in common than just our hobby. It took patience, great effort, big changes to our lives and some years but we built a life together.
We’ve never forgotten what brought us together and we’d like to be able to always have that special place in the virtual world for friendships to form and for gamers to spend a little time together. With Ready Up we can do that.
A few weekends ago Dan and I tied the knot and we are very happy. We were joined on the day by our families, our oldest and dearest friends and by our gamer friends, the Ready Up staff. Anthony was Dan’s best man, Simes helped me with flower garlands and fairy lights on the eve of the wedding and James drew by hand all the illustrations on our table nameplates (which of course featured cities and lands from our favourite games). Eleanor pinned me into my dress, Walter did a reading during the service and Scott made a speech during the meal. Tony, Jake, John, Darach, Zoey, Duncan, Fran, Susan, all joined us with many distinguishing themselves with awesome karaoke performances. Martin sang the last song of the night, with the entire wedding party on the dance floor breaking out some crazy moves.
It was a wonderful day and being with all of our loved ones made it very special. Being joined by our other family, that live together in this little home on the internet was really more than we could have ever hoped all those years ago when we first met in the virtual rain, on a virtual harbour.
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