Buyers of platinum wedding jewellery are to get an opportunity to send out vows of love to their loved ones into space, Mainichi Daily News reports.

The website said that the campaign, dubbed Platinum Promise 2006, will allow Japanese consumers who buy an engagement or platinum wedding ring between August and December to have marriage vows or photographs sent to the International Space Station.

Purchasers will need to apply on a special website for the offer. Vows and photographs will be included on a DVD, sent via a Russian Soyuz spacecraft next March. Lucky couples will get a space marriage certificate in April 2007.

One Japanese actress, 23-year-old Mika Mifune, booked "marriage in space" place No.1.

She said of the event: "I'm really happy. I think my father [the late actor Toshiro Mifune] is in space now, and I'm sure he'll be pleased to see me happy."

Ms Mifune married 47-year-old rock-vocalist George Takahashi at the tender age of 16 and has since had a daughter.


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