Global General

Special

Newsmaker

Asia Pacific

America

Middle East

Europe

Africa

NY couple to be first to wed in zero gravity

(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-06-04 09:53

NEW YORK – A New York couple really will be on cloud nine when they marry later this month: they'll exchange vows in zero gravity.

Noah Fulmor and his fiancee Erin Finnegan, seen here showing off a wedding dress designed by Japanese designer Eri Matsui, will be on cloud nine when they marry later this month -- in the first ever wedding in zero gravity.[Agencies]

Noah Fulmor and Erin Finnegan will be floating -- possibly upside down -- as they say "I do" in a specially modified Boeing 727-200 departing Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral on June 20, a statement from Zero Gravity Corporation said.

They will be "the first bride and groom to be married in zero gravity," said the company which arranges commercial weightless flights.

"Richard Garriott, the sixth private explorer in history to go to space and the first second-generation US astronaut, will officiate," the company said.

According to the statement, the aircraft's interior replicates levels of weightlessness found on Mars or the Moon. "It's an experience unlike any other."

Although the betrothed may have trouble with rings floating away, they'll at least get out of the extreme setting unscathed.

The plane is "a zero-gravity playroom, complete with padded floors and walls," Zero Gravity said.