A World of Warcraft Wedding

Marriages Made in an MMORPG

What happens when an Orc Hunter falls in love with an Undead Warlock?

No, this isn't an ugly baby joke. It's a true story about a young couple that met and fell in love through World of Warcarft. Lee-Ann* and T.B.* met in the MMORPG (massive-multiplayer online role playing game) World of Warcraft. A friendship formed right away that grew over time, eventually resulting in the couple meeting in person and forming a romantic relationship. Two years later, Lee-Ann and T.B. are engaged and setting a wedding date for next year. They have even started a family together.

Other Cases of WoW Relationships

This sweet story may inspire single gaming geeks out there but it's not a lone case. Many of us have also heard the story, Druid and Hunter to Man and Wife on the European World of Warcraft servers. This man and woman met through the power of an MMORPG and later became married in real life. Blizzard featured their story on the official WoW website for some time and it made some good publicity for World of Warcraft. When this story was publicized, many others came forward that they had also met someone through World of Warcarft or that they know of someone who had.

I personally have met people in game that met through the game and started dating and if you search World of Warcraft forums and message boards, you find many other cases as well. So while it may still seem a bit shocking to mainstream society, I don't think gamers are all that astonished. World of Warcraft is also not the first MMORPG to have this sort of history. Couples have met through other games such as EverQuest, for example.

What Critics Are Saying

When stories like these are publicized, there are those that criticize it and said how could two people possibly know enough about one another from a video game to actually get married? Others scoff and say it is a marketing ploy to gain attention for the game and still others mock the couple and others like them claiming that they must be "losers" or "geeks" to get married to someone they met in a game. But when you really look at it, is it that shocking and unusual?