Dragon Con: A Destination For Unconventional Weddings

At Dragon Con 2017, Kevin Close was dressed as the Wyndham Hotels Wizard, and Laura Close was dressed as Sophie from “Howl’s Moving Castle.”

Kevin and Laura Close

Dragon Con — the annual pop culture and sci-fi convention held in downtown Atlanta on Labor Day Weekend — is a place where memories are made. For some, those memories include tying the knot.

The convention follows a strict schedule and is unable to host or conduct weddings, but that hasn’t stopped couples from getting married anyway.

In 2015, Ashley Paramore and Justin Robert Young put on a show in the Crystal Ballroom of the Hilton Atlanta, one of the five hotels where Dragon Con takes place. Their wedding ceremony at Dragon Con was actually the season finale of the couple’s JuryMore podcast about their journey to the altar. A video of the season finale was posed online months later.