Jun 7, 2006 9:24 PM

Virtually Yours: Legally Binding Online Wedding

Hey, you guys remember back in October, when a player named “Neverdie” in the online game Project Entropia bought a virtual space station in the game for over $100,000? Well, Neverdie is back in the news again today — he’s getting married right at this moment, in real life, and holding the ceremony on his […]

Hey, you guys remember back in October, when a player named "Neverdie" in the online game Project Entropia bought a virtual space station in the game for over $100,000? Well, Neverdie is back in the news again today -- he's getting married right at this moment, in real life, and holding the ceremony on his space station. This makes the nuptials of Jon "NEVERDIE" Jacobs and Cheri "Sheba" London the first live, legal, virtual wedding (at least according to the press release):

The wedding will take place in the Club Neverdie resort on the surface of an asteroid, with hundreds of gamers around the world expected to "virtually" attend. The avatars of the wedding party, including the Minister, will be communicating vows and discussions inside Entropia Universe via the virtual chat interface. The ceremony will be performed simultaneously in the "real-world" home of the groom, Miami FL, by Reverend Dr. Kenneth E. Claus.

I gotta know. Is there a pre-nup? What happens if they split? Will the virtual couple split too? Will she get half the space station? Will she throw his virtual belongings out the virtual window? Will I keep going with this bad joke?

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