Facebook co-founder and Boss Mark Zuckerberg get married longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan on Saturday, announcing the wedding via a status update around the social media site.
The 28-year-old
billionaire's wedding happened a next day of Facebook's initial public offering
around the Nasdaq stock market on Friday.
A lot more than 280,000
people "liked" Mr Zuckerberg's status change, that was supported with
a photo from the smiling couple in wedding attire in a tiny, verdant outside
setting having a string of lights in it.
Within the photo, the
notoriously casual Mr Zuckerberg is putting on a dark blue suit and tie, a
departure from his trademark "hoodie," while Ms Chan is wearing a
sleeveless whitened dress with lace overlay.
The happy couple get
married within an intimate backyard ceremony in Palo Alto, California, based on
People magazine.
The pair decided the
exchange of vows for four several weeks, but surprised their visitors, who
thought these were to celebrate Chan's recent graduation from school of
medicine, playboy reported.
Mr Zuckerberg's sister,
Arielle Zuckerberg, published, "Balls. Now I Am the only real unmarried
Zuckerberg..." on her behalf Facebook page. She's listed by Chan as a
relative on the website.
Mr Zuckerberg developed
a simple ruby wedding band for Chan themself, People reported. Visitors dined
on food in the couple's favorite restaurants, and nibbled on mouse-formed
chocolates the pair ate on their own first date nine years back.
Tim Carvell, lead author
for "The Daily Show" with Jon Stewart, responded towards the news on
Twitter, writing: "Congratulations, Mark Zuckerberg! Like a gift, I
acquired the names of my buddies, a listing of my personal favorite movies,
plus some photos of me!"
Mr Zuckerberg, whose
shares count nearly $20bn and who maintains voting charge of Facebook, marked
the debut of his company's stock at Facebook's Plastic Valley campus on Friday,
symbolically ringing the outlet bell for stock buying and selling.
The IPO didn't go along
with the social media company had wished, with shares closing just over the
offering cost of $38 a share after buying and selling glitches along with a
last-minute, 25pc rise in the amount of shares being offered.
A lot more than 576m
shares transformed hands, setting a buying and selling volume record for all of
us market debuts. Facebook published $3.7bn in revenue this year and $1bn in
profit. The website boasts 900m global customers.
Facebook's emergence
like a cultural phenomenon was portrayed within the fictionalized 2010 film
"The Social Networking."
Mr Zuckerberg, Time
magazine's Person of the season this year, began Facebook in the Harvard
College dorm room eight years back, before shedding from the Ivy League school.
Ms Chan just finished
school of medicine in the College of California, Bay Area. The pair met while
at Harvard.
Neither Mr Zuckerberg
nor Ms Chan said further regarding their marriage on their own Facebook pages,
and Facebook reps didn't immediately react to e-mailed demands for discuss the
marriage.
The pair adopted a
Hungarian sheepdog named Animal last year, and live together in Palo Alto.
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