c. 2004
5,000 weddings and almost as many Lunar babies
A couple meet through a Lunar diary, meet IRL in 2003 and marry on Midsummer Eve 2004. In total around 5,000 couples have married thanks to the site.
It wasn't a dating site, but a survey we did a few years ago showed that about 5,000 couples have married thanks to Lunarstorm.
- The prologue: “the 5,000 couples who met on the site and got married” and “the almost as many Lunar babies”.
- The Swedish Internet Museum (Internetmuseum): StajlPlejs in the exhibition Nätromans (Online Romance).
- The survey was done in 2003 to 2004 as a large questionnaire with around 30,000 participants (Rickard on P4, Swedish public radio's local channel, 2016).
- Hallands Nyheter (HN), the local paper in Varberg's region, 2016: a couple from Varberg and Piteå who started writing to each other on the Graffiti Wall (Klotterplanket) as 14-year-olds married in May 2016.
Sources: HN 2016-01-09 · Aftonbladet 2006-10-27 · Internetmuseum: StajlPlejs (Lunarstorm) · SR Förmiddag i P4 Östergötland (full interview, Rickard's SoundCloud)