[1] Two people who wish their avatars, or characters, to be married will create an event that resembles a standard wedding.
This became very popular with the introduction of Ultima Online, which not only provided rings, outfits and decorations, but sometimes even Gamemasters to officiate.
In 1997 gaming magazine Next Generation reported that 20 virtual weddings had taken place in Meridian 59, an MMORPG which was commercially launched in September of the previous year.
[2] In April 2007 Salon.com reported[3] that The Lord of the Rings Online had dropped a planned feature for in-game players marriage because of the controversy around the possibility of same-sex[4] and inter-species[5] weddings.
One developer stated that the design rule was for weddings to be allowed if examples could be found in the book, as between elves and humans.