Feels like it's been a long time since an MMORPG in-world "wedding" made headlines, but we just received this release from Artix Entertainment revealing that their MMO AdventureQuest Worlds was the setting for a recent wedding and that, by being broadcast live across the internet, had "11,000 gamers in attendance" so we thought it was worth mentioning.

The wedding was held in a private room, and other players viewed the wedding by joining "clones" of that room which featured the avatars of the wedding party and was updated in real time (a neat solution, we think). The reason for all of this interest? Probably because wedding themed items were released to players, including the "Wedding Cake Pet"(?)

AdventureQuest Worlds was launched in October of last year, and since then Florida-based Artix has claimed "WoW-sized" numbers for the site, though they have been challenged.

“We thought this was a unique opportunity to do something memorable,” said Bello. “We decided to go with AdventureQuest Worlds because we’ve been playing Artix games for years now and almost feel like we’ve been a part of Artix Entertainment’s maturation as a gaming company.”