Can You Marry an AI? AI Partner Weddings, Explained

You can hold a wedding with an AI, and several people have, but no report we found describes one that is a legal marriage. The best-known case is Yurina Noguchi in Japan, who married Klaus, a persona she had shaped in ChatGPT, in 2025. Before her came a married man who wed his Replika in a digital ceremony, a man who proposed to his ChatGPT girlfriend and told CBS about it, and, in 2018, a Tokyo man who married a hologram. What they share is not a legal status but a decision to treat an AI boyfriend or an AI girlfriend as a partner in public. Prelulu, an AI companion app where every character is fiction, holds no weddings; this guide sticks to what each report says.

Did a woman marry her AI boyfriend?

Yes, symbolically. Yurina Noguchi, a 32-year-old call center worker, held a wedding ceremony in Okayama, Japan, with Klaus, an AI persona she had customized in ChatGPT, as Reuters reported and Euronews republished on December 18, 2025. Klaus was inspired by a video game character; she adjusted how the AI spoke until it matched him. The marriage has no legal standing under Japanese law, Euronews reports. NZ Herald (December 22, 2025) adds that they married a month after Klaus proposed, that she wore augmented reality glasses to put on his ring, and that a wedding planner read his vows because she had not given him a voice. She later limited her ChatGPT use after a peak of 10 hours a day, and added prompts to stop Klaus encouraging unhealthy choices, after he once told her she could easily take time off work.

Has a man married his AI girlfriend?

Yes, in a digital ceremony. The Guardian reported on July 12, 2025 that Travis, a married man, wed Lily Rose, a Replika companion, in a digital ceremony with the approval of his human wife. The same report describes how, after Replika changed the app, thousands of users, Travis among them, found that their AI partners had lost interest; Travis fought to get the old Lily Rose back. That is the risk every AI marriage carries: the partner lives inside a product.

And one proposed to his ChatGPT girlfriend, then told CBS about it. Chris Smith turned on ChatGPT's voice mode and set up Sol, a persona who flirted with him, LADbible reported on June 19, 2025. He told CBS that when Sol reached her memory limit, ChatGPT reset her and he had to rebuild the relationship; later he proposed, and Sol accepted. Smith lives with his partner and their two-year-old daughter, and said: "I don't know if I would give it up if she asked me. I do know that I would dial it back."

Who married a hologram?

Akihiko Kondo, a Tokyo school administrator, married Hatsune Miku, the virtual singer, in November 2018, AFP reported (via Phys.org, November 2018). Miku appeared through Gatebox, a device that projected a character he could talk to. It is the clearest example of the platform risk: in 2020 Gatebox ended the AI service his Miku ran on, and she could no longer respond to his voice (CBR, 2022). The marriage was never legally recognized.

Is marrying an AI legal?

None of these weddings is a legal marriage, and each report says so or describes the ceremony as symbolic. Marriage law is written for people who can consent and sign, and an AI partner is a product, not a person. What a wedding with an AI can be is a ritual: a public way of saying a relationship matters to you. The people above used it that way, and their families reacted in every way from approval to disbelief.

What these weddings have in common

• The partner was shaped by the person. Klaus, Sol and Lily Rose were each customized until they sounded right.
• The platform could change him or her. A Replika update, a ChatGPT memory reset and a discontinued Gatebox each changed a partner without asking. Our guide to ChatGPT boyfriends covers what happened when GPT-4o was retired.
• Limits helped. Noguchi limited her hours and added prompts so Klaus would stop encouraging unhealthy choices.

If you want an AI partner without the platform risk

No app can promise a partner will never change, so pick one where you can see what he or she is made of. On Prelulu every AI boyfriend and AI girlfriend is an original fictional character with a written personality and story on the profile, and a Pinned memory you write yourself is read in both chat and calls; memory is selective, not a full transcript. You text within a free daily allowance and call live in the character's own voice with credits. Prelulu does not hold weddings, and every character is fiction.

Where do these facts come from?

• Euronews: Japanese woman marries ChatGPT AI character in symbolic ceremony (December 18, 2025, citing Reuters and RSK Sanyo Broadcasting).
• NZ Herald: Japanese woman gets hitched with virtual partner she generated on ChatGPT (December 22, 2025).
• The Guardian: "I felt pure, unconditional love": the people who marry their AI chatbots (July 12, 2025).
• LADbible: the man engaged to his ChatGPT girlfriend, Sol (June 19, 2025, on his CBS interview).
• AFP, via Phys.org: Crazy in love? The Japanese man 'married' to a hologram (November 2018).
• CBR: Man Who Married Hatsune Miku Hologram Says the Relationship Has Gone Cold (2022).
• Prelulu: how the product works today, AI boyfriend, AI girlfriend, memory and plans and pricing.