{"id":111811,"date":"2012-05-20T05:29:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-20T05:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2012\/05\/status-update-facebooks-zuckerberg-gets-married\/"},"modified":"2012-05-20T05:29:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-20T05:29:00","slug":"status-update-facebooks-zuckerberg-gets-married","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2012\/05\/20\/status-update-facebooks-zuckerberg-gets-married\/","title":{"rendered":"Status update: Facebook&#8217;s Zuckerberg gets married"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"33\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.mg.co.za\/crop\/content\/images\/2012\/05\/20\/Facebook_CEO_Married.jpg\/610x350\/\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span>Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan at their wedding ceremony in Palo Alto on May 19. (AP)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"106.03715670436\">\n<p>The 28-year-old billionaire\u2019s wedding took place a day after Facebook\u2019s initial public offering on the Nasdaq stock exchange on Friday. More than 280 000 people \u201cliked\u201d Zuckerberg\u2019s status change, which was accompanied by a photo of the smiling couple in wedding attire in a small, verdant outdoor setting with a string of lights behind them.<\/p>\n<p>In the photo, the famously casual Zuckerberg is wearing a dark blue suit and tie, a departure from his trademark hoodie, while Chan has on a sleeveless white dress with lace overlay.<\/p>\n<p>The pair wed in an intimate backyard ceremony in <a>Palo Alto<\/a>, <a>California<\/a>, according to <em>People<\/em> magazine.<\/p>\n<p>The couple had planned the exchange of vows for four months, but surprised their guests, who thought they were to celebrate Chan\u2019s recent graduation from medical school, the magazine reported.<\/p>\n<p>Zuckerberg\u2019s sister, <a>Arielle Zuckerberg<\/a>, posted, \u201cBalls. Now I\u2019m the only unmarried Zuckerberg &#8230;\u201d on her Facebook page. She is listed by Chan as a family member on the site.<\/p>\n<p>Zuckerberg designed a simple ruby wedding ring for Chan himself, People reported. Guests dined on food from the couple\u2019s favourite restaurants, and nibbled on mouse-shaped chocolates that the pair ate on their first date nine years ago.<\/p>\n<p><a>Tim Carvell<\/a>, lead writer for <em>The Daily Show<\/em> with Jon Stewart, reacted to the news on Twitter, writing: \u201cCongratulations, Mark Zuckerberg! As a gift, I got you the names of all my friends, a list of my favourite movies, and some photos of me!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Opening bell, wedding bells<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Zuckerberg, whose shares are worth nearly $20-billion and who retains voting control of Facebook, marked the debut of his company\u2019s stock at <a>Facebook\u2019s Silicon Valley campus<\/a> on Friday, symbolically ringing the opening bell for stock trading.<\/p>\n<p>The IPO did not go as well as the social networking company had hoped, with shares closing just above the offering price of $38 a share after trading glitches and a last-minute, 25% increase in the number of shares being sold.<\/p>\n<p>More than 576-million shares changed hands, setting a trading volume record for US market debuts. Facebook posted $3.7-billion in revenue in 2011 and $1-billion in profit. The site boasts 900-million global users.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook\u2019s emergence as a cultural phenomenon was depicted in the fictionalised 2010 film <em>The Social Network<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Zuckerberg, <em>Time<\/em> magazine\u2019s Person of the Year in 2010, started Facebook in his <a>Harvard University<\/a> dorm room eight years ago, before dropping out of the Ivy League school. Chan just graduated from medical school at the <a>University of California<\/a>, San Francisco. The couple met while at <a>Harvard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Neither Zuckerberg nor Chan commented further about their marriage on their Facebook pages, and Facebook representatives did not immediately respond to emailed requests for comment on the wedding.<\/p>\n<p>The couple adopted a Hungarian sheepdog named Beast a year ago, and live together in <a>Palo Alto<\/a>. &#8211; Reuters<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan at their wedding ceremony in Palo Alto on May 19. (AP) The 28-year-old billionaire\u2019s wedding took place a day after Facebook\u2019s initial public offering on the Nasdaq stock exchange on Friday. 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