Virtual Instant Marriages Now Available on SpeedDate.com

Now you can marry someone without ever meeting in person—or at least save a lot of money and time normally associated with traditional weddings.

SpeedDate.com has been approved as the first ever virtual wedding officiant with its new service SpeedMarriage. The service launched on March 15, 2011 and five to ten electronic marriages are being performed each hour, with peak usage between midnight to 2 AM.

Here’s how it works. SpeedDate connects online daters in real-time on quick 5 minute chat sessions, to quickly find chemistry with potential mates. Now, extremely compatible SpeedDaters can bypass the courtship phase and get married in their next 5 minutes as an added bonus.

By placing servers in Las Vegas, Nevada, SpeedDate has enabled a bride and groom to enter into an official marriage contract, signed electronically under Federal law. From a dropdown box users can choose an ordained virtual minster, rabbi or justice of the peace to officiate the online wedding quickly with just a few clicks.

“Our real-time matching algorithm has been so effective in finding people their soulmate, that we decided to extend the product line,” co-founder Simon Tisminezky explains. “The initial response to the SpeedMarriage service has been extremely positive, especially in this economy where people are trying to save money.”

Traditional wedding vendors are not so happy about this revolutionary new marriage technology. “Since the launch of SpeedMarriage, I have noticed a sharp decline in customers to our store,” says the owner of a local wedding dress company, “The ones that do come in try to pay with virtual currency, which we do not accept.”

The bride and groom can still invite their friends and family to participate in this joyous occasion by creating a Facebook event that is distributed to their friend list. Plus, there is no more hassle of shaving down guest lists due to cost constraints or the awkward task of making seating arrangements.

What’s next for SpeedDate?

“We’ve received user feedback that our customers would like to find faster, more efficient ways of having children” says Tisminezky. “We’re thinking of calling the new feature ‘SpeedBabies’, but our engineers haven’t figured out the technology yet.”

By the way, there are absolutely no plans for “SpeedDivorce”.