This wedding will be facebooked: Zuckerberg marries longtime girlfriend

Zuckerberg married Priscilla Chan whom he had met while at Harvard, and have maintained their relationship since then.

Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg wed longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan on Saturday, announcing the nuptials through a status update on the social networking site.

Tens of thousands of people "liked" his status change, which was accompanied by a photo of the couple in wedding attire.

The 28-year-old billionaire is the CEO of Facebook, which had a historic initial public offering on the Nasdaq stock exchange on Friday to a $100 billion valuation.

Zuckerberg co-founded the site Facebook in a Harvard dormitory eight years ago. Chan just graduated from medical school at the University of California, San Francisco.

The couple met while at Harvard.