With the weather breaking, chances are you are seeing more wedding invites, pictures, and things of the like on your social media pages from guests or from the bride and groom themselves.  The warm weather months are the peak of wedding season.

With a wedding comes planning, flowers, food, the guest list, the dress, and the list goes on and on.  With so many little details to worry about it can become quite overwhelming.  The social media age we live in adds a little more pressure to the mix, some weddings even have hashtags so that the bride and groom can find all the those candid photos from their big day after all the hoopla has died down.

What if I told you that the place we all love to shop for household items (but hate to assemble them), Ikea, now offers Weddings Online? It’s not a joke, it’s a real thing.

You don’t have to assemble the tables and chairs for this, it’s a virtual wedding, so it’s all online. There are a few catches to this: the bride, groom and the officiant have to all be in the same room for it to be legally binding. Otherwise, all you need is a computer, a webcam and a microphone.

So how does this all work? Is it the same amount of headache?

In order to interact with the bride and groom at the wedding you will need to have a Facebook or Twitter account.  The places (or faces that you see in the above video) are the important roles you would typically see at a wedding.  The bride and groom, the marriage officiant, two required witnesses, and four additional places for your other guests or close friends. Also, like every normal wedding, you get to pick the location for ceremony and the reception.  You can invite as many people as you like, and even specify a dress code.

Another not-so-cute fact

There are no privacy constraints on who can view the wedding. Meaning, if someone just happens to stumble across it they can see your wedding like a creeper– or an uninvited guest in the real world– and there is nothing you can do about it.

Essentially, Ikea’s Online Weddings would cut out someone’s excuse, “I didn’t have a ride,” or “I had nothing to wear.” However, it does add the excuses such as “My WiFi was down” and “My laptop wasn’t working.” Pick your battles. Gotta love technology right?

Would you get married virtually? Why or why not?