Groom stops his own wedding to update Facebook status

The FINANCIAL — A US groom interrupted his own wedding at the altar to update his relationship status on Facebook. He also updated his status on Twitter.

A clip of the stunt has been posted on YouTube where it has become an internet hit with nearly 180,000 viewers to date, My Joy Online informs.

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Youtube footage shows Dana Hanna, from Maryland, whip out a telephone from his suit, interrupting the minister, AP reports. Thoughtfully, he then produces a second phone and hands that to the bride.

The audience then burst out laughing as the minister, who was in on the stunt, tells them the groom is updating his relationship status, according to My Joy Online. He also Tweeted: "Standing at the altar with TracyPage where just a second ago, she became my wife! Gotta go, time to kiss my bride." He then hands his new wife her phone so she can update her Facebook status from "in a relationship" to "married".

A clip of the stunt has been posted on YouTube where it has become an internet hit with nearly 180,000 viewers to date, as the same source informs.

Hanna explains on YouTube that he did it for laughs and that the gag was a surprise to everybody in attendance except the minister, Los Angeles Times reports. This would explain his wife’s look as he pulled “his” and “hers” cellphones from his tuxedo pockets.

“This was just done to be funny — we really don't Facebook THAT often :),” he wrote on YouTube, according to the same source. “I have a lot of family scattered around the country and we all use Facebook a lot to keep in touch.”

“My wife and I are very technology centric, and have been Facebooking and Twittering a lot to keep in touch with our very large families scattered across the USA. In fact, when we got engaged, we changed our Facebook statuses and didn't even call anyone since the word would spread on Facebook far faster than it would have over the phone calling all hundreds of our friends and family. After doing that, we received a lot of laughs, and some minor critisism from family whom were insulted that we couldn't even pick up the phone to call them,” he said.