SAN FRANCISCO, May 20: A day after the historic Facebook IPO, founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg updated his status to “married.”    

Mr Zuckerberg on Saturday wed 27-year-old Priscilla Chan, his girlfriend of nearly a decade, according to a guest authorised to speak for the couple.

The couple married at his Palo Alto, California home in front of fewer than 100 stunned guests who thought they would be attending a party to celebrate Ms Chan’s graduation from medical school. Mr Zuckerberg gave his bride a ring he had designed with a “very simple ruby” to end an incredibly eventful week, according to the guest.

On Monday, Mr Zuckerberg turned 28 and Ms Chan graduated from the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, where she had studied paediatrics.

Then on Friday, Mr Zuckerberg took his blue-and-white web behemoth public in one of the most anticipated stock offerings in Wall Street history. The seemingly well-coordinated timing was largely a coincidence, the guest said.

The wedding had been planned for months and the couple was waiting for Ms Chan to finish medical school, but the date of the IPO was a “moving target” not known when the wedding was set.—AP