They fell in love by playing Minecraft. Then the game turned into their wedding place

When Patel suggested last year, it happened, appropriately, in MinecraftS He designs a secret line to search for the hero of Nguyen, the culmination of a mountain scene, where NPC presented his proposal through a dialog box in the game. “He knew I would say yes, before I even got to the end,” says Nguyen, laughing.

So when it comes time to plan their wedding, Minecraft It wasn’t just a nostalgic choice – it was inevitable. “This is the closest thing we have up to a shared home,” Nguyen explains. “We lived separately on our whole relationship. This world is where we live together.” (The couple now lives together in Portland.)

Their virtual wedding included 15 usual NPCs that tell their love story, a cathedral built by marine lanterns and obsidian blocks, and a cleaner hunt, where guests helped to extract a “forgotten heritage” to unlock the altar. About 50 friends and family attended eight countries. “We had some older relatives to watch through Twitch because they were not gamers,” Patel says.

While some guests were skeptical at first, both families eventually hugged him. “My parents loved it was so personal,” Nguyen says. “They didn’t really understand MinecraftBut they realized that it was us. “

The whole event costs about $ 300, most of all for personalized leather commissions, server hosting and paying a designer to help with NPC and quest script. “A way cheaper than a place in the real world,” says Patel. “And without seating diagrams.”

They also held a small personal dinner a few weeks later for local relatives, but for them Minecraft The ceremony was the “real wedding”.

In Roblox Metaverse, Ashley Rivera, 27, from San Diego, and Luna Kim, 26, from Seoul, kept their wedding in the pastel castle floating among the digital clouds. The couple met five years ago in a Roblox Fashion Design Community, binding on a shared love for avatar styling, digital art and hyperpop playlists. “We would only spend hours designing outfits together,” Kim says. “It was not just to dress – it was to create small versions of ourselves and to dream of life for them.”

Although they have never played Roblox They were competitively deeply embedded in his social and creative subcultures. “We met most of our friends there,” Rivera says. “There we organized birthday parties, hosts of art shows, organized nights on karaoke. This was our city square.”

When Kim suggested last summer, it happened in Roblox The Fashion Show that they built together. “She walked on an avatar on the track, holding a giant neon ring,” Rivera says. “And I just started sobbing.”

Their wedding reflected the same playful spirit. Guests arrived as anime-style avatars, dressed in thematic glances-Cotagecor, Fairy or post-opocalyptic chic. Instead of an hour for cocktails, the guests have completed a course of obstacles that Kim designs. Instead of DJ, they programmed a screenplay dance party, synchronized with their favorite hyperpop songs.