{"id":5474,"date":"2009-03-17T02:18:59","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T01:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slipserver.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/star-trek-wedding-prize-leaves-couple-beaming\/"},"modified":"2009-08-22T08:13:50","modified_gmt":"2009-08-22T15:13:50","slug":"star-trek-wedding-prize-leaves-couple-beaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2009\/03\/star-trek-wedding-prize-leaves-couple-beaming\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek Wedding Prize Leaves Couple Beaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Justin Gruba<\/b> and <b>Alissa Mellis<\/b> of Troy, Michigan were the lucky winners of the Detroit Science Center&#8217;s &#8220;Star Trek: The Exhibition Ultimate Wedding Package Contest&#8221; after winning 35% of the online voting for the contest.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/\">Freep.com<\/a>, the couple won a June wedding on the exhibit&#8217;s recreated USS Enterprise Bridge, which includes a reception for two hundred guests at the museum. Gruba and Mellis also won a honeymoon at the <i>Star Trek<\/i> honeymoon suite at the MGM Grand Detroit.<!--more-->Gruba and Mellis were engaged at the exhibit on Valentine&#8217;s Day. In winning the wedding, they beat out eight other couples. <\/p>\n<p>In their application for the contest, the couple wrote: &#8220;Marriage is a journey and an adventure. Like the voyage of <i>Star Trek<\/i>, we will go boldly go into an unknown future together.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To read more, head to the article located <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/article\/20090316\/FEATURES01\/90316090\/1005\/NEWS\/+Star+Trek++couple+beaming+after+winning+wedding+prize\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justin Gruba and Alissa Mellis of Troy, Michigan were the lucky winners of the Detroit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2416],"tags":[2542,2543,2544,2545],"class_list":["post-5474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fandom","tag-gruba","tag-mellis","tag-star-trekthe-exhibit","tag-wedding"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/fandom\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Fandom<\/a>","tag_info":"Fandom","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5474"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7067,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5474\/revisions\/7067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}