Zero-G Wedding One for the Ages

Talk about having your head in the clouds.

Noah Fulmor and Erin Finnegan, two New Yorkers (naturally), got married in the weightlessness of space – aboard a plane modified to simulate the zero-gravity environment. They exchanged their vows, rings, and kiss and even had witnesses to the blessed event – all at $5,400 a person.

For the happy couple, though, it was worth it. They certainly have a story to tell – to their children, their future coworkers, and the millions of people who have yet to hear this novel tale of wedded bliss among the clouds.

This wasn't the first time wedding vows were spoken in space: Cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko did just that in 2003; his bride-to-be, however, was back on Earth. This New York couple, though, did it up right. You can write that date in your diary: June 20, 2009 – the day of the first wedding in space.

They had a few difficulties, of course. The hair and clothes had to be, well, attached in spots so as not to float around and ruin the photos. Then there was the ring, which just refused to go where it was supposed to. The kiss was a bit of a struggle as well, since both the bride and groom found it very difficult to hold still long enough to connect lips.

But connect in the end they did, and get married in space they did, in front of a special 10 friends and family who will surely have a story to tell for a very long time – until this sort of thing becomes commonplace.

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