ChatGPT o ciates wedding in Morrison

Couple has artificial intelligence create their ceremony

BY DEB HURLEY BROBST DBROBST@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Reese Wiench and Deyton Truitt said their marriage vows in a church built in 1885. But couples who were wed there in decades past would never guess that the extensive planning for the service didn’t require much in the way of human expertise.

at’s because the couple turned to arti cial intelligence to create their wedding ceremony in Morrison on June 24.

Speci cally, ChatGPT planned the welcome, the speech, the closing remarks — everything except the vows — making ChatGPT, in essence, the wedding o ciant. Since arti cial intelligence is not recognized as a wedding o ciant by the state of Colorado, Reese’s dad Steve Wiench signed the marriage license.

ChatGPT provided a recording of the ceremony that was played through speakers on a stage in the front of the Historic Morrison Church. To make it more interesting, the family bought a robot mask to put on top of the speakers to make it appear that someone was speaking. e couple decided to get married quickly because Truitt deploys next week for the Army, and they wanted to be married so Reese can join him after he completes basic training. ey planned the entire wedding in ve days.

Reese said they were joking about how to get a wedding together that quickly. ey found a venue and decided that attendees would play kazoos to provide the music. ey found a wedding-cake baker, and the cake topper sported a bride and an Army soldier. ey bought their wedding attire.

But they didn’t have an o ciant.

“So, we decided to try using ChatGPT to write the ceremony,” Reese’s dad Steve Wiench said.

ChatGPT, which stands for Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer, was developed by research company Open AI. Users can ask questions or input data, and ChatGPT will generate a written response to the desired length, style and detail.

Arti cial intelligence is being used more often in weddings from writing vows to helping with planning.

Truitt is a rm believer in articial intelligence, noting that it will change people’s lives by doing jobs in minutes that take humans hours. e family even used ChatGPT to write a press release announcing the wedding and a statement that was distributed to the 30 wedding guests.

According to the ChatGPT-generated statement handed out to guests: “As the AI o ciant for Reese Alyson Wiench and Deyton Truitt’s wedding, I will focus on celebrating their unique journey of love and unity, highlighting the remarkable merging of human connection and technological innovation. I will emphasize the power of their union to inspire, unite and break barriers, capturing the attention of the world with a story that transcends conventional norms. During the ceremony, I will eloquently express the signicance of this historic moment and the limitless possibilities that arise when love and technology intersect.”

While arti cial intelligence can help those with di culties expressing themselves in writing and is becoming more prevalent, some raise concerns that it may be used by in place of human-conducted research and writing.

Reese, 23, works at children’s summer camps at Mount Vernon Canyon Club, while Truitt, 26, will be a network communication systems specialist after basic training at Fort Jackson in Columbia, South Carolina.