“Will you marry me?” William Maneja asked, locking eyes with the stranger in a white dress.
It was his fourth proposal in less than 60 minutes.
Instead of rings, the pair pulled out their Tamagotchis and wed their virtual pets – in pixelated matrimony.
Maneja, 29, and his partner were among 200 enthusiasts at the Cecil Community Centre in Toronto in August, vowing to remain united “through dead batteries and scratched screens” in what the group said could be the world’s largest tamagotchi wedding.
“There was an air of giddiness in the room, with many guests in wedding attire and some flying from as far away as Los Angeles and Texas,” Toronto Tamagotchi Club founder Twoey Gray, 30, said of the event, which resulted in 162 unions in a single hour.
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