A newly wed from Tamil Nadu planned their reception out of the universe. No, not in space but in Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse. Dinesh and Janaganandhini are throwing a grand wedding reception to their guest in a virtual venue.
As recently a Tamil couple chose to wed over Meta verse, this Maharashtra based couple tied the knot via block chain technology from the Open Sea platform. Interestingly, this happened to be India’s first ‘block chain wedding’.
According to the Linked in post , Shruti Nair and Anil Narasipuram, who had a court marriage in November last year, were cementing their togetherness in digital fashion via blockchain technology. What about the phere and the fire? ‘Digital priest’ Anoop Pakki mined an NFT on Open Sea platform and put it forth it to the couple. It was done through an ‘Ethereum smart contract’.
"On Nov 15, 2021, Shruti Nair and I got married! Given the era of Covid that we live in, we decided to keep it small with a courthouse wedding, also known as a 'Registered Marriage' in India. We also decided to immortalize our union using block chain technology...." the post by Anil read.
The couple read their wedding vows, “We won’t make any big promises, but we will do everything we can to make this work. Through all our disagreement and conflict, we hope to grow our understanding of each other and ourselves. We don’t expect to be the whole village for each other, but we will be by each other’s side, hand in hand, walking through this adventure, together”. It was a quick wedding, in 15-minutes the block chain ceremony got to conclude.
We read out the vows and after receiving the blessings of our digital priest, I confirmed the transaction to transfer the NFT to my wife’s digital wallet.”
The wedding vows read: “We won’t make any big promises, but we will do everything we can to make this work.
“Through all our disagreement and conflict, we hope to grow our understanding of each other and ourselves.
“We don’t expect to be the whole village for each other, but we will be by each other’s side, hand in hand, walking through this adventure, together.”
Anil added: “The transaction is a permanent, immutable and public record of our commitment to each other on the ETH blockchain.
Cryptocurrency and blockchain represent a significant change in the way we transact and the way we trust. This is just the beginning…”
The digital space continues to become more popular and previously, a couple held a METAVERSE wedding reception.
In another picture shared by Narasipuram, a confirmation by the priest read: “By the power vested in me by Ethereum, it is my honour and delight to declare you married.”
“The transaction is a permanent, immutable and public record of our commitment to each other on the ETH blockchain,” Narasipuram added.
“This is just the beginning…” he underlined, while pointing out that cryptocurrency and blockchain represent a significant change in the “way we transact and the way we trust.”
The blockchain wedding, while new in India, is hardly so elsewhere. In March 2021, a US couple during their traditional Jewish ceremony exchanged virtual rings (NFTs) using their smartphones and took social media by storm.
Last month, another Indian couple from Tamil Nadu had gone viral after they decided to take the Metaverse route to tie a knot in what was a Hogwarts-themed virtual wedding.
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