On August 10, 2003, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko married his American fiancée, Ekaterina Dmitriev, via satellite link while orbiting the ISS. The ceremony, connecting space and Earth with a live video feed, was the first space wedding. Dmitriev wore a wedding gown on Earth, and Malenchenko appeared in his spacesuit, marking a historic union defying distance and gravity.