An Indian couple just had a ‘blockchain wedding’ — with vows in NFT and digital priest!

The wedding was exciting as any could be, both were joyous but what made it even more exciting was the fact that it was backed by blockchain — it was India’s first ‘blockchain wedding’, probably.

Soon after their court marriage in November 2021, Shruti Nair and Anil Narasipuram, both residing in Pune, were on their laptops — cementing their union in blockchain technology through an ‘Ethereum smart contract’. ‘Digital priest’ Anoop Pakki mined an NFT on OpenSea platform and transferred it to the couple — by the powers vested in him by Ethereum, of course.

For many, crypto, non-fungible tokens (NFT) and blockchain are still complicated business, but young India has taken another leap towards digital Wedding Invites —blockchain weddings.

The couple read their vow: “We won’t make any big promises, but we will do everything we can to make this work. Through all our disagreement and conflict, we hope to grow our understanding of each other and ourselves. We don’t expect to be the whole village for each other, but we will be by each other’s side, hand in hand, walking through this adventure, together”. It was now a part of their NFT. And in 15-minutes, the blockchain ceremony was over.

“The transaction is a permanent, immutable and public record of our commitment to each other on the ETH blockchain,” wrote Anil on his LinkedIn profile.