Wedding Dash tries to capture all the stress, creative thinking and excitement of being a wedding planner, which is, if the game is an indicator, a challenging and rewarding job. It starts off by letting you choose the location of the wedding reception, which functions as a level select screen. You can have the reception in a banquet hall, on a ship or on the beach among other locations.

Next, you’re presented with facts about the couple getting married, which you must pay careful attention to, because the couple’s personalities factor into what you to feed them and where you send them on their honeymoon. If Jeff and Katie are vegetarians and nature lovers, then serving them bloody rare steaks and honeymooning them in New York City would make you a really bad wedding planner.  Choosing salads and Yellowstone National Park will earn you some valuable points at the start the game.

From here, Wedding Dash plays much like Diner Dash, with guests arriving to the wedding, you finding them tables, serving them an appetizer, a main course, a dessert and then getting them out to the dance floor so you can seat more guests. Even though it seems like not having enough seats for all the guests would be a great way to get fired as a wedding planner, the fact that you need to turn tables is what brings the frenzied, stressful pace to the gameplay. If you make anyone wait too long for anything people are going to get angry and you’ll be losing points and possibly your check.

Sharp thought bubbles above a person’s head indicates that they’re getting impatient.

To add some challenge, Wedding Dash’s guests have particular desires about where they sit at the wedding. For example, many people won’t want to sit next to Aunt Fran, so you’ll gain extra points by sitting them at least one seat away from her. Other guests will want to sit at a particular table or by a particular person.

You’ll also have to avert wedding catastrophes. During one of my weddings, I thought I was doing great, serving everyone’s food fast and getting them out on the dance floor, when I realized that the sound system had shorted out and all the people on the dance floor were upset. All it would have taken to was one touch of the stylus to solve the problem, but since I was so busy serving food, it must have gone on for half of the wedding and the bride was livid. Wedding Dash does such a good job of making you juggle tasks and concentrate on a couple key areas of the screen that you won’t even notice the wedding apocalypse happening right in the corner.

Wedding Dash seems to be shaping up to be an enjoyable game.  The hectic pace coupled with the satisfaction of a successful wedding makes this one game that could appeal to both those who see wedding planning as a dream job and those (like me) that just want a fun, quick, challenging game to play.

Tags: Wedding Dash, wedding planner

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1 Comment » Bella Vista All Events on October 28, 2009 3:44 pm I love it. As a wedding planner myself it would be interesting to see how this game portrays my job and the stress and joys involved. RSS feed for comments on this post. Comment Now Note: Commenting on Ripten does not currently require registration, however to be eligible for contests on the site, you must be a registered user. Name (required) Mail (will not be published) (required) Website Commenting Rules: No hate speech allowed. If you must argue, please debate intelligently. Comments containing selected keywords or outbound links will be put into moderation to help prevent spam. Ripten reserves the right to delete comments and ban anyone who doesn't follow the rules. Thanks. Notify me of followup comments Tired of the Goomba? Upload your own custom comment avatar.