They were surrounded by a sprawling Minecraft village, complete with custom-coded NPCs reciting lore about the couple’s decade-long digital courtship. As such, platforms like Minecraft, Discord, and VRChat have become unconventional yet meaningful venues. It’s not uncommon to hear vows referencing video game lore or to see ring exchanges coded into emotes or Discord bots. Sarah Nguyen, 24, from Portland, Oregon, and Jamie Patel, 25, from Leicester, England, met when they were 13 years old on a Minecraft role-play server. “We didn’t just game together,” Patel says.