A humanoid robot named "I-Fairy" conducted the wedding ceremony

The groom looked dashing and his bride was dazzling in white, but all eyes in this Japanese wedding were firmly on the priest.

For the unusual registrar was a four-foot tall robot with colourful, flashing eyes called i-Fairy.
The robot is usually used in museum and exhibitions to direct visitors, but with the help of a flower headpiece, and a new programme, it pronounced Satoko Inoue and Tomohiro Shibata man and wife at a Sunday ceremony.

The event is being billed as the first ever wedding presided over by a robot, a fitting marriage for the couple who met through the machines. The bride, Inoue, works for the company that makes the i-Fairy, and her husband, Shibata, is a robotics professor.
After making their vows, the bride said that she wanted to use her wedding to show people that robots can easily fit into their daily lives.