Space wedding: Japan start-up celebrates your marriage by firing a commemorative plaque into orbit
Do you love your partner to the moon and back? Soon newlyweds marrying in a hotel in Japan will be able to send a customised wedding plaque into space to commemorate their love
The sky is no longer the limit for lovers looking for unusual ways to commemorate their nuptials, with a Japanese company now offering to blast commemorative wedding plaques into space.
Warpspace, a start-up based in Tsukuba outside Tokyo, is introducing the new service in partnership with a hotel popular for wedding banquets.
For about 30,000 yen (US$270), newlyweds marrying at the hotel will be able to have their names etched into a personalised, 16mm by 8mm titanium plate that will be loaded onto a tiny satellite.
The satellite will be taken up to the International Space Station on a supply ship, and then released by astronauts.
We want to make space enjoyable and usable
Customers will receive photos of the craft carrying their plaques as it swirls among the stars.