This Man Loved His iPhone So Much, He Literally Married It

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Picture it: Los Angeles director Aaron Chervenak is hanging out with his friends, scrolling through his iPhone, enumerating the countless reasons he holds the device near and dear to him. No strangers to Aaron waxing poetic about a smartphone, his friends finally reach their breaking point: "All right, Aaron. If you love your iPhone so much, why don't you marry it?!"

Suddenly, a lightbulb goes off in Chervenak's head. He turns to his friends and answers determinedly, "You know what? Maybe I will!"

And so sets the scene for Chervenak's recent iPhone wedding at the Little Las Vegas Chapel. Though we cannot confirm this is how his "proposal" actually went down, we can confirm that the "wedding" did take place on May 20 at the Nevada wedding venue. To be clear, this was not an IRL-version of Her; instead, Chervenak was trying to make a statement on the emotional connection many people, like he, have forged with their smartphones and how they've become staples in our everyday lives.

"If we’re gonna be honest with ourselves, we connect with our phones on so many emotional levels. We look to it for solace, to calm us down, to put us to sleep, to ease our minds, and to me, that’s also what a relationship is about," Chervenak said. "In a sense, my smartphone has been my longest relationship."

Being a filmmaker, Chervenak made sure to record his nuptials and even made the footage available on YouTube. As for the newlywed Mr. and Mrs. Chervenak-iPhone, don't plan on sending them wedding gifts any time soon. The union is purely symbolic and (clearly) holds no legal weight.

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