Facebook friends 'like' Zuckerberg's big news

Updated: May 21, 2012 - 9:15 AM

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Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan at their wedding ceremony in Palo Alto, Calif., Saturday, May 19, 2012.

Photo: Allyson Magda, ASSOCIATED PRESS - AP

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A day after Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg married his girlfriend of nearly a decade, Priscilla Chan, nearly 900,000 people had "liked" his updated status. The couple married Saturday at his Palo Alto, Calif., home in front of fewer than 100 stunned guests who thought they would be attending a party to celebrate Chan's graduation from the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, where she'd studied pediatrics.

Within hours, wedding details were being reported, including that Zuckerberg gave his bride a ring he had designed with one ruby. TMZ reported that Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong performed a "touching love song" after the wedding, and that there was plenty of upbeat recorded music all night -- including Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Flo Rida, and Bon Jovi.

Food was served family-style and included dishes from the couple's favorite Palo Alto sushi restaurant.

The wedding came one day after Zuckerberg took Facebook public in one of the most anticipated stock offerings in Wall Street history. He met Chan at Harvard, where he founded Facebook in a dorm room in 2004.

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