#HITCHED: Wedding tech getting ‘extreme’ with drones, robot officiants

(NBC News) Technology has long been enmeshed in the age-old ritual of saying I do — and now, wedding tech has moved well past hashtags to include Google Glass-wearing brides, drone photography and even robot officiants.

“It’s a saturated market in terms of inspiration … and people are more focused than ever on having their wedding stand out from everyone elses,” said Jamie Miles, editor of wedding website TheKnot.com. “They want that one thing that people will remember, and there are a ton of technology-focused options.”

For some couples, it’s the tech you’d expect: Nearly nine in 10 couples download wedding planning apps, according to a recent survey from TheKnot, and about 55 percent use a wedding hashtag.

But others have moved well past these now run-of-the-mill add-ons to wedding tech that’s become “more and more extreme,” Miles said.

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