Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who stunned the whole world by giving a life to Internet, yes we are talking about Faceboo, has just got married to his long time girl friend Priscilla Chan.
Zuckerberg gave his
new bride a ring he had designed with a "very simple ruby" to end an
incredibly eventful week.
The couple married at his Palo Alto, Calif. home in front of fewer than 100 stunned guests who thought they would be attending a party to celebrate Chan's graduation from medical school.
On Monday, Zuckerberg turned 28 and Chan graduated from the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, where she'd studied pediatrics.
Then
on Friday, Zuckerberg took his blue-and-white web behemoth public in
one of the most anticipated IPOs in Wall Street history.
The
seemingly well-coordinated timing was largely a coincidence, the guest
said. The wedding had been planned for months and the couple was waiting
for Chan to finish medical school, but the date of the IPO was a
"moving target" not known when the wedding was set.
Attendees,
including Facebook's chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg, were told
after they arrived that they were not mere party guests but wedding
guests."Everybody was shocked," the guest said.
The person would not discuss the names of others who attended to protect their privacy.
Ditching his trademark hoodie and sneakers, Zuckerberg sported a dark blue suit and tie with a white shirt for the ceremony, while Chan wore a traditional white wedding dress with veil and lace.
Food was served family-style and included dishes from the couple's favorite Palo Alto sushi restaurant.
Zuckerberg
met Chan at Harvard, where he founded Facebook in a dorm room in 2004,
and have been together for more than nine years.
Chan's
own Facebook page, which now lists her as married to the founder, said
she is a native of Braintree, Mass., and attended high school in nearby
Quincy.
She graduated Harvard
in 2007 then taught science to fourth and fifth graders at the Harker
School in San Jose for two years before starting medical school,
according to her profile.
