geeky marriage proposals

Gandalf is to officiate Captain Picard's upcoming nuptials and — boom! — our favorite fantasy/sci-fi worlds collide, but far from Middle-earth or the Enterprise. Sir Ian McKellan is set to oversee the exchanging of vows between Sir Patrick Stewart and his jazz singer lover, Sunny Ozell, at their Massachusetts wedding.

While we don't know how the former Star Trek captain proposed, we'll dream that it was as sweet and geeky as the proposal he was part of at the Chicago Wizard World convention. If only all engagements began like this. Push play on the cute video, then check out some other adorable ways geeks have popped the question below!

• Making the movies jealous — The latest in a string of viral marriage proposals, Matt asked Ginny to marry him in an elaborate (Mac made?) movie trailer in a theater full of onlookers. Unbeknownst to her, there's a camera on her the entire time, and her reactions are totally adorable. Movie geeks, unite!
• Widgets proposal — A Mac nerd made up a custom widget to propose to his girlfriend back in 2007. Mac dashboard widgets were the hot-ticket item back then, and this one was the first (and only?) of its kind.
• HP7 Android app — Disguising a Harry Potter trivia quiz as a marriage proposal isn't easy, but this determined geek learned how to develop one on his own in order to surprise the Muggle of his dreams.

Feeling the love? See the rest of the list after the jump

Forget Paris or the gondolas of Venice. When you hear how one proposal went down, you'll understand why it's getting loads of attention and being called the nerdiest proposal of all time. Here's the story: a physicist got down on one knee in front of his girlfriend of seven years (a physicist herself) and handed her a piece of paper.

What was it, you might ask? Why, a paper called "Two Body Interactions: A Longitudinal Study" that read like a legitimate academic study. There was an abstract, a graph of happiness over time, and a conclusion. The summary of findings showed "that the projected happiness is upward with high confidence," and it even included a checkbox below the words, "The subjects response to the proposal should be indicated below." Of course, she checked yes.

If that story got you all fuzzy inside, you'll enjoy these other tales of truly geeky proposals:

• Game day — A love story, from virtual to reality. One couple was playing City of Heroes, an online game where players become superheroes, and were sitting next to each other in real life. The girlfriend asked her boyfriend not to look at her screen, but when she finally gave him the go-ahead, she had her character kneel down and propose. He accepted in the game but, like a true gentleman, turned to her in real life and said yes.
• Three-letter word — Talk about playing for keeps. Arik and Jenny did the Sunday crossword puzzle together every week, so he thought it only natural to propose to her that way. He got the editor of the Boston Globe magazine to join in on the plan; the puzzle was called "Popping the Question," and the clue for 116 Across sealed the deal.
• Coding for a cause —The list wouldn't be complete without a coding story. One guy used the programming language Perl to write code in the shape of a heart that asked his girlfriend to marry him; it even included a line at the bottom that read "be $mine for @ever."

See the rest of the list after the jump.

With Wedding season kicking off this month, we're caught up in the season of love. These days, to make a serious statement of your heart's intentions it's all about adding some geeky personality for an unforgettable proposal. We've seen dozens of these proposals memorialized on the web to send our hearts aflutter. The latest: the below video combines binary coding aptitude and Futurama fanaticism. Yes, that is a proposal spoken exclusively in binary.

Follow the break to watch our favorite geek-tinted proposals.

Wedding season is moving right along here on the Sugar Network, but it's always fun to take a look back and see how everything started. Marriage proposals are getting more creative with the addition of smartphones, video games, and movie magic, and I can't help but tear up after seeing these sweetly geeky proposals from geeks all across the country. Check out six of my favorites here.

• Making the movies jealous — The latest in a string of viral marriage proposals, Matt asked Ginny to marry him in an elaborate (Mac made?) movie trailer in a theater full of onlookers. Unbeknownst to her, there's a camera on her the entire time, and her reactions are totally adorable. Movie geeks, unite!
• Widgets proposal — A Mac nerd made up a custom widget to propose to his girlfriend back in 2007. Mac dashboard widgets were the hot ticket item back then, and this one was the first (and only?) of its kind.
• HP7 Android app — Disguising a Harry Potter trivia quiz as a marriage proposal isn't easy, but this determined geek learned how to develop one on his own in order to surprise the Muggle of his dreams.

See the rest of the list after the jump

TechCrunch recently posted an email from one of its readers detailing an iPad-based marriage proposal. Apparently, the couple went out for ice cream (to the same place they had their first date) and Zach, the proposer, handed her an iPad and earphones, played a slideshow of photos of the two of them, and ended with the message, "Will you marry me?" As you can see in the photo the happy couple is displaying on the iPad (which clearly wasn't captured with the camera-less iPad), she said yes.

This is another one to add to my list of awesome geeky proposals, and most of you agree — you'd be down with a geeky proposal, too!