Last week, the Japanes firm First Advantage and the U. S. firm Rocketplane Global, Inc., announced plans to offer weddings in space. The cost of the service is tentatively set at $2.3 million.
Tentatively because there's currently a big catch in the plan. Rocketplane doesn't yet have a space vehicle capable of taking anyone into space. It's working on a suborbital craft, but that has yet to begin test flights. In any case, that could only support quickie oath exchanges in weightlessness.
Something approaching traditional weddings beyond Earth will have to wait for the development of space hotels. That setting could produce quite spectacular weddings-- not to mention honeymoons offering interesting new options couples could explore together. The initial space hotels are on the drawing boards now, but waitong to be married in one would require an extremely long engagement.
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