<<Print>>Do you love your mobile phone enough to marry it, the way Aaron Chervenak wedded his new “wife” phone at the Little Vegas Chapel?
The wedding looked like a typical Las Vegas wedding, except for one deviation. The groom, Aaron Chervenak, wore a tux. The bride wore a protective case.
The officiant carried on as if everything was normal, delivering the following speech at the altar during “the joining of Aaron and his smartphone”: “Think of all of the love and laughter you have shared, all the good times you’ve had, all the reasons you’re here today at this altar, pledging your eternal love and commitment to each other.” Chervenak stood tall.
The officiant continued: “Do you, Aaron, take this smartphone to be your lawfully wedded wife, and do you also promise to love her, honor her, comfort and keep her, and be faithful to her?” “I do,” Chervenak said, and then the groom placed his wife on his left ring finger, since the wife had a nifty little ring attached to her plastic cover. “My smartphone has been my longest relationship,” artist-director Chervenak explained in a YouTube video. “We connect with our phones on so many emotional levels. We look to it for solace, to calm us down, to put us to sleep, to ease our minds,” he said in the video. “To me, that’s also what a relationship is about.” This day would have to be a symbolic gesture to show how close people are to their phones, since the state won’t legally recognize his betrothed. Chervenak hasn’t responded to requests for an interview. We may only assume the lucky couple’s consummation, and that he won’t trade his wife in for a new model next year.
'So in a sense my smartphone has been my longest relationship,' he added. 'That's why I decided to see what it was like to actually marry a phone.'
Aaron explained that when he arrived in Vegas, he contacted a local chapel to see if they would be willing to hold the 'slightly unorthodox ceremony', and he was pleased to learn that they were more than open to it.
'I think they were really excited about the prospect,' he said. 'It is something different and it is something new.'
Aaron put on a suit coat before driving himself to the chapel in a bubblegum pink car with his smartphone in tow. Inside, his black iPhone was dressed in a white case and perched on a decorated stand, which was placed next to him in the front of the chapel. There were even a few guests at the bizarre nuptials. 'I am trying to ask the hard questions of myself as to what this relationships means, and I am trying to go as far as I can to explore that,' Aaron noted.
During the ceremony, the officiant asked Aaron to think of all the 'laughter' and 'good times' he has shared with his cell phone before asking him to promise to 'honor' and 'comfort her'.
When it was time to exchange rings, Aaron picked up the cell phone and placed his finger inside a ring that was attached to its case.
And while there was no kissing of the bride, Aaron was all smiles as he carried his new wife down the aisle. However, the marriage isn't actually recognized by the state of Nevada.
'It's not yet legal to marry smartphones,' he admitted.
'But what I hope my wedding will do is to somehow act as a symbolic gesture to show how precious our phones are becoming in our daily lives, and hopefully get others to ask that same questions of themselves and their relationships with their phones. Unfortunately, not everyone was as supportive of the union.
'In 18 months he'll upgrade,' one YouTube user commented on the video, which was posted on Tuesday.
'I'm glad this idiot won't reproduce. Thank you, Apple,' another wrote.
However, The Little Vegas Chapel took to the comments section to say that Aaron 'loves his phone very much'.
'We can renew their vows when the new model comes out!' the company added.