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Twitter has hosted proposals and divorce announcements, so it was only a matter of time before the site serviced an actual wedding ceremony.
Twitter has hosted proposals and divorce announcements, so it was only a matter of time before the site serviced an actual wedding ceremony.
On Monday, a Turkish couple made it official by tweeting 'I Do,' in what's believed to be the world's first Twitter-hosted wedding. Actually they wrote 'Evet'—the Turkish word for 'Yes'—on their iPads, and added a few extra 'T's' as is customary when expressing joy through digital mediums.
The groom, Cengizhan Celik, is a social media editor for the news website Ensonhaber.com, so it almost makes sense that Twitter would serve as his best man. The bride, Candan Canik, doesn't seem to share the same enthusiasm for the service, considering her vow was her first tweet. But love is all about making sacrifices, right?
In a video of the ceremony, posted on YouTube, an officiant prompts the couple to confirm their vows and they both gaze into the faces of their respective iPads. By that point, Celik was already deep into live-tweeting the ceremony. Earlier, he'd kicked it off by posting the update: "Let the fun begin." It was an open invitation for the world to virtually crash the party. And crash they did. The wedding received international coverage and Celik retweeted copious congratulations with abandon.
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After they made it official and signed a marriage license with pen and paper (wah-wah), the groom tweeted a photo with his new bride, exhibiting the precise amount of web-friendly sarcasm as he held a finger-gun to his head and made a 'what have I done?' expression.That photo joined the carousel of images on Celik's personal Twitter gallery, also home to photos of Jeff Daniels and Webster.
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