Tag: MARRIAGE

A fellow drops on one knee, hands a girl an iPad 2 with a wedding proposal engraved on the back, and the rest is history. After all, you know what they say: diamonds may be forever, but fresh-off-the-assembly-line iPads are a girl's best friend. They do say that, don't they? This latest techy proposal may not be as rollicking as that iPhone one, or as supremely nerdy as the Pokemon question, ...

Share On her wedding day, 27-year-old Helen Oh found herself standing alone at the altar, in front of 500 friends and family. Samuel Kim, her husband-to-be, wasn't by her side, and wasn't even in the same building. But the Big Day still ended on a high note, thanks to some resourceful improvisation, and a Skype connection. A few days before the wedding, Kim came down with a serious lung ...

Even our stone-cold hearts melted some when we watched this video of Bioware sound designer Joel Green's pixelated proposal to his girlfriend/co-worker, Heather Rabatich, in the world-building game of 'Minecraft.' Green placed signs along the virtual way, leading Rabatich's avatar to an aerial view of his digital monument to marriage: pools of orange lava spelling "Marry Me?" His overture also ...

If saying "I do" is in your near future, Google has launched a wedding planning site. According to The Official Google Blog, Google Weddings offers four main tools for the soon-to-be-married: Google Sites for creating a website that can be shared with the wedding party; Picnik for editing photos; Google Documents for creating seating charts, schedules and budgets with wedding-themed templates; ...

A New Jersey pastor has ordered his married church officials to either delete their Facebook accounts, or resign from their positions in the church. According to the AP, the Rev. Cedric Miller asked about 50 officials to delete their accounts in order to set an example for the church -- which has been rife with marital discord, the pastor claims, due to social networking sites. Miller told the AP ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2010/08/17/man-jailed-after-sending-facebook-friend-request-to-estranged-wi/'; Share When Carole Bruder filed a restraining order against her estranged husband Harry, she had every reason to believe that her soon-to-be ex-hubby would never dare contact her again. Apparently, though, Harry didn't think that Facebook friend requests fell under the legal ...

Where many men have disappointed their girlfriends by offering casual, lackluster proposals, Digg's Matt Van Horn secured a definite "yes" from his girlfriend, Lauren, on Saturday by streaming his surprise proposal online so that their friends and family could watch. Fearing that Lauren would expect the proposal if he took her to their favorite spot overlooking San Francisco, Van Horn ...

To nobody's surprise, a recent study claimed that more couples are finding evidence of marital infidelity via Facebook. After all, if somebody's doing something, no matter how innocuous or unsightly, it's probably going to get posted on the social networking site. According to the AP, Lynn France, of Westlake, Ohio, learned this the hard way when she discovered that her husband John had a second ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. David Fincher's 'The Social Network' gets a full moody, 60-second TV spot, complete with a Kanye West score, champagne spraying and laptops a-smashing. [From: ...

Share OK, now this is getting out of control. He took our cool, our precious YouTube time, and now, he's making our marriage proposals. As we reported earlier, the Old Spice guy has been going on a Twitter tear the past couple of days, sending out personalized, bite-sized thank-you-commercials to targeted celebrities, bloggers and plebeian followers. Throughout the campaign, he's received (and ...

How do you know when your iPad love crosses into unhealthily obsessive territory? When your entire wedding ceremony revolves around it. As Gizmodo reports, one happily married couple recently had the geektastic idea of conducting their entire wedding (i.e., the most important day of their lives) with an iPad. As you can see in this video, appropriately titled 'iPad Wedding,' the officiant ...

Share We knew that Facebook has torn apart many a marriage across the pond. But according to a recent survey, it's become just as problematic for couples here in the US, too. A survey of high-profile divorce lawyers throughout the country reveals that increasing numbers of quarrelsome couples are now using Facebook data as evidence of marital infidelity. As attorney Mary Cay Trace told ...

Share It's your wedding day, the single most important 24 hours of your life. You've made the arrangements, you've hired the band, the caterers and the belly dancers. You've even managed to shed 10 pounds in two weeks by eating nothing but Tabasco sauce and topsoil. But you're still worried that something could go wrong. Luckily, reliable Japanese robots are here to help. Yesterday in Tokyo, ...

We've seen some pretty nerdy marriage proposals before, but a Zynga employee might have just topped them all. According to Joystiq, Anders Howard and his friends created a video game, called 'Dinner Love and the Quest for Soup,' to help him propose to his beloved. Now, he's not the first gamer that has proposed in this manner. However, Howard set up a special event to go along with the game, which ...

Share Every bride and groom wants their wedding to be unique and memorable. For gamers and nerds the world over, a soon-to-be married couple just might have set a new bar that will never be risen above. According to Offbeat Bride, Darina and her groom Niko ditched traditional paper wedding invitations, instead opting for a playable video game called "Darina and Niko's Incredible Adventure." ...