Well, there are lots of bizarre things that keep happening around the world, some creepy and some funny in nature. Keeping with the stride of bizarre and providing concrete proof of the captivating gaming culture, in a first of its kind wedding, a man has reportedly has entered in to the holy matrimonial alliance with an animated character.

The groom known simply as Sal9000 and his virtual girlfriend, Nene Anegasaki, who is a character in the popular game called Love Plus, available via Nintendo tied the knot with full fanfare at the Make, which is a Japanese convention held at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. The popularity wedding ceremony got the attention Nico Nico Douga, a premier video sharing website, that took the opportunity of providing live internet coverage of the event.

Sal9000 is a dedicated member of the Nico Nico Douga, a website where users are able to post videos anonymously, that range from pop music, anime to web memes. Hence, the groom chose the website as the ideal medium for the broadcast of his wedding, that even included a priest.

In an e-mail sent to Boing Boing, the groom, Sal9000 stated,

“Thank you very much for watching our wedding ceremony online. Because of your blog post, we received some comments from what appeared to be international viewers, and we were very happy about that. I had heard before the groom is very busy during a Japanese wedding, but this was much more than I expected! Both the actual wedding space and the livecasting web site were full on the day of — I’m so happy so many people were able to witness this. There were over 3,000 connections and 7,000 comments made online, and the people who showed up in person at the ceremony also offered their congratulations. It was great. Now that the ceremony is over, I feel like I’ve been able to achieve a major milestone in my life. Some people have expressed doubts about my actions, but at the end of the day, this is really just about us as husband and wife. As long as the two of us can go on to create a happy household, I’m sure any misgivings about us will be resolved. As for what’s next, we still haven’t gone to see my parents, so we will be going home together on New Years to officially announce our marriage. The two of us hope to continue to let our love for each other grow as time goes on.”

Via Boing Boing & Konami.