Forget Maui or Palawan – the next hottest destination wedding is a place you won’t be able to find anywhere here on earth. A Japanese firm called First Advantage and a US-based private space flight firm called Rocketplane Global Inc. teamed up to host weddings in space for about $2.3 million a pop. The First Advantage website (which is in Japanese) says that there will be a four-day training program, the last of which will be spent holding a wedding ceremony that will start from the ground and end during the one-hour trip to suborbital space 100 km above the earth. The ceremony also includes a marriage certificate, a space wedding photo album, and the capacity to broadcast the wedding live via satellite. For that much money you think you’d be able to take an entire entourage with you at least, but unfortunately the space shuttle can only take three guests (probably a priest and two witnesses). First Advantage and Rocketplane says their first space wedding will be taking off in 2011.

I wonder where people who get married in space go for their honeymoon though. Seriously, any beach or fancy resort is going to pale in comparison to exchanging wedding vows with a view of the earth right outside the shuttle window!

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