Facebook founder and CEO
Mark Zuckerberg updated his status to "married" on
Saturday.
Zuckerberg and 27-year-old Priscilla Chan tied the
knot at a small ceremony at his Palo Alto, Calif., home,
capping a busy week for the couple, according to a
guest authorized to speak for the couple. The person
spoke only on the condition of anonymity.
Zuckerberg took his company public in one of the
most anticipated stock offerings in Wall Street history
Friday. And Chan graduated from medical school at
the University of California, San Francisco, on Monday,
the same day Zuckerberg turned 28, the person said.
The couple met at Harvard and have been together for
more than nine years, the person said.
Zuckerberg designed the ring featuring "a very simple
ruby," according to the person.
The ceremony took place in Zuckerberg's backyard
before fewer than 100 guests, including Facebook's
chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg.
The guests all thought they were coming to celebrate
Chan's graduation but were told after they arrived
that the event was in fact a wedding.
"Everybody was shocked," the guest said.
Rather than his trademark hoodie, Zuckerberg wore a
suit for the ceremony, while his bride wore a
traditional wedding dress.
Food was served family-style and included dishes
from the couple's favorite Palo Alto sushi restaurant.
The two had been planning the marriage for months
but were waiting until Chan had graduated to hold the
wedding, the guest said.
The timing wasn't tied to the IPO, since the date the
company planned to go public was a "moving target,"
the guest said.
Even after the IPO, Zuckerberg remains Facebook's
single largest shareholder, with 503.6 million shares.
And he controls the company with 56 percent of its
voting stock.
The site, which was born in a dorm room eight years
ago, has grown into a worldwide network of almost a
billion people.
Zuckerberg founded Facebook at Harvard in 2004.
He was selected as Time's Person of the Year in 2010,
at age 26.
Zuckerberg grew up in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.

m.yahoo.com/w/legobpengine/news/facebooks-mark-zuckerberg-marries-sweetheart-012516359--finance.html?orig_host_hdr=news.yahoo.com&.intl=US&.lang=en-US