First Metaverse Wedding Reception To Be Held In Tamil Nadu

Lightning strikes as dementors, the protectors of Azkaban in the JK Rowling's Harry Potter series, line up to greet the viewer of the wedding invitation by a couple from Tamil Nadu. They claim that this is the first metaverse wedding reception in India.

The couple, Janaganandhini Ramaswamy and Dinesh SP will be getting married on February 6, 2022. The marriage will take place at Sivalingapuram village in Tamil Nadu. However, their reception will not be the usual. The couple has decided to host their wedding digitally. NDTV reported that after the wedding ceremony, the couple will switch on their laptops and enter a virtual venue. They will enter the Hogwarts-theme reception with iconic tunes from the film playing in the background.

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They will be not alone in the Hogwarts castle. It will be attended by their family members and friends across the world. Dinesh SP, the groom to be, said that he came up with this metaverse wedding reception idea and his finance agreed to this unusual planning of the reception. The project associate with IIT Madras informed this to the Time of India.

"I have been into crypto and blockchain technology, and have been mining enthereum, a form of cryptocurrency for the last one year. Since blockchain is the basic technology of Metaverse when my wedding was fixed, I thought of having a reception in Metaverse," he said.

They both are Potterheads, so the Harry Potter theme was the ideal go-to. Their digital avatars will be dressed in traditional clothes and the login details will be passed on to the guests. There, they can choose their own avatars. It will be an hour-long event where participants would be able to interact with each other.

Metaverse is a scaled and interoperable network of real-time that creates 3D virtual worlds. It can effectively be used by unlimited users.

Dinesh SP shared the invite video on his Twitter feed, with the caption, "I feel so proud and blessed that I have seen and taken advantage of many great opportunities in this world before millions of people have seen them, Beginning of something big! India's first #metaverse marriage in Polygon blockchain collaborated with TardiVerse Metaverse setup."