A little extreme don't you think?
TOKYO (AFP) - A Japanese firm on Tuesday began accepting reservations for couples who really want to make the big leap -- by blasting into space to exchange their wedding vows.
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Each happy couple will spend 240 million yen (2.3 million dollars) for the ceremony in a small space vessel, which will shoot up 100 kilometres (60 miles) into the sky.
During the hour-long flight, the couple will spend several minutes in zero gravity during which they will exchange their vows with up to three guests present, said Taro Katsura, a spokesman for Japanese firm First Advantage.
The couple would perform most of the ceremony before takeoff "so that they can say their vows and look out the window," Katsura said.
The firm is offering the space marriages in a tie-up with US-based Rocket Plane, which will conduct the flights from a private airport in Oklahoma.
From the spaceship, the couple would probably be able to see the outline of the Earth although they will not be far enough into space to allow complete floating, Katsura said.
Despite launching the offer in Japan, the company said it expected most of its customers to be from China or Arab Gulf nations. There are currently no plans to start the space weddings in the United States, Katsura said.
Space tourism has been seeing a boom of sorts since 2001, when American millionaire businessman Dennis Tito paid 20 million dollars to Russia's space agency to become the first person to pay his own ticket into space
with this amount of money and be merry... hahaha....
pykester
premarriage Dramamine instead of champagne...and no rice thrown, but wet towels to the guests...
Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked,the good fortune to run into the ones I do,and the eyesight to tell the difference.
romantic scene eh??? I do, followed by "pass the bucket" lol
know that zero gravity makes most folks throw up immediately afterward...how romantic is that??? Right after they are announced husband and wife, they uheave ho, in front of their parents!!
Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked,the good fortune to run into the ones I do,and the eyesight to tell the difference.
Ofcourse, I see, are you married, or they are just words of Wisdom, sounded more like words of Experience I Say...LOL!!!
But whatever, God Spelt Words my friend...
I've cottoned on to your plan..
You want to take "Her folks" up and leave them there in space.. Great idea.. The old rocket booster malfunction routine..
don't think the marriage would be consumated with all that floating about in zero gravity ;)
wad about honeymoon in space ..lollll
Baka...my dear friend, ummm let not get into that mate, if we were in a position to adjust the weights we might as wel forget hte Girl's PARENTS...LOL!!! or how about this, if the Girl has a sister, take the sis forget the girl...LOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!!Funny eyy
Brandy, ahhh come on dont be such a sissy I say...hop on board will ya girl...
wondered where you had gotten to ;)
KSA, not a cat in hells chance!!!!!
I have a white knuckle ride every time I fly :(
would need 6 bottles of brandy for me to pass out and then, only then, maybe I could be persuaded :)
and drinking liquor upide down lol....i wudnt do that... brandy best is you try underwater ceremony... :)
ksarat we might need bigger space ship for you and me :) good monring to you guys...
Show some spice o young and beautiful one...come on buck up, fasten your seatbelts and look directly up cos the next stop is at the Earth's Orbit...for any drinks and such, just make sure you have stocked up enough,cos up there, to buy Liquor YOU NEED A DAMN PERMIT !!!
rich couple just looking for ways to spend all their money. ok bring it on! is their a priest willing to fly too?
I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it. ~Charles Schulz
you little adventurer you!!! lol
me, am scared up in a plane so no chance of me going any higher!!! :(
Looking to get married up there I See...posting such a news early in the morning girl!!!
BUt look at this, ofcourse the cost is deadly but the thrill is of once in a lifetime...I mean if I had the money i wud take my folks and her folks and head right up there...LOL!!!
ridiculous, the bride would be at the alter and her train
would be outside of the church or whatever!!! :)
i know what you are saying but me, I have a nervous laugh and if it was anything out of the ordinary I would be in hysterics :(
some couples are looking for more adventure...if i were the bride i wont be able to feel the solemnity of the wedding...too many butterflies jumping on my tummy from the take off!
I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it. ~Charles Schulz
A bride from Guangzhou, China is one crazy woman indeed, come on what the hell was a thinking all those poor people that had to run around picking up your wedding dress train.
This bride was trying to set the world’s longest train record at 219 yards, just so you know how long that is put two football fields together and that is how long it is.
i totally agree taking vows is a spritual expirience
like holding hands and getting lost in each others eyes but these wedding i tell u forget abt holding hands i doubt that will they even be able to see each other???
Life is a mystery..... you never know whats next.....
a case of 'anything you can do I can do better' mentallity, weddings are about comitting to one another not a freak show
goodmorning rizks
what aliens they are not going on the moon or mars
they are just going 60 miles in space thats is in the middle of no where
and true brandylady weddings are getting stranger day by day.....i don't get the point they are trying to prove?
Life is a mystery..... you never know whats next.....
I think there are enough 'aliens' here on earth without going into space lol
I mean weirdo's etc :)
i do tend to agree but these days weddings are getting more and more weird, each one trying to outdo another, being married whilst skydiving, skuba diving etc, all a little too much :/
Good Morning Twinkle Little Star & all ....
There is AlienS to share & Cheer the happy momentz... i suppose ....!!
its just stupidity
a wedding is a happy moment of a life time and
it is to be shared with friends and family and happy ppl
not in space where there is no one to cheer for you...
just not happning....
Life is a mystery..... you never know whats next.....
the experience without the commitment :) lol
you really love each other with faith that no one can set you apart until the end...
"Tell me who your friends are and I will tell you who you are"
i prefer to be one of the guests...
I like the bit about it being mostly the Chinese and Arab nations expected to be the first to go for it, us little people couldn't afford it even if we wanted to :0
No one can hear you scream !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I had heard everything but now jetting into space to be married, I just think is going a little too far, would you consider it??