It is the wedding season in India once again and each and every couple is planning out their big day pretty well. Lately, it has been a trend to make weddings stand out and it mostly happens by picking exotic destinations or adding social relevance or something like that.
Things took a turn when the pandemic happened and there have been restrictions on and off. As a result, many couples had to resort to low-key weddings. Yet some were ingenious and found ways to avoid physical attendees altogether.
And so, a couple from Maharashtra blew off everyone with their one-of-a-kind state-of-the-art marriage ceremony.
Anil Narasipuram and Shruti Nair from Pune had a wedding via blockchain. The couple of Tamil origin decided to hold their wedding reception digitally in the Metaverse.
The groom Anil shared the whereabouts of the event on Twitter and said that they had a ‘Registered Marriage’ in a courthouse due to the pandemic on November 15, 2021. Soon after the registered marriage, they had made their marriage “blockchain official” to make their marriage ‘immortal’.
Anoop Pakki, a digital priest, officiated their wedding as the couple exchanged their vows while seated in front of the laptops.
“I made our marriage ‘blockchain official’ with an Ethereum smart contract that consecrated our commitment to each other in the form of an NFT minted on OpenSea,” Narasipuram wrote on LinkedIn.
Check out the thread:
On Nov 15, 2021 @shrutinair1 and I got married! Considering the pandemic era that we live in we decided to keep things small with a courthouse wedding, also known as a 'Registered Marriage' in India. We also decided to immortalize our union using blockchain technology.. (1/8)
— Anil N (@vaayustudios) January 22, 2022
And things didn’t just end there. The duo went on to create an NFT of a photo of the engagement ring, with their wedding vows written on the picture.
Would you like to try this with your fiancé/spouse?