Design kitch at its very best. Auto-Wed, the rather unique take on the gumball machine concept is probably most suited for the lobby of a Vegas hotel. The coin-operated wedding machine is an idea coined by British designers Concept Shed. Once you insert your money, it plays a specially composed intro version of the wedding march and asks you to select your union type from one of four options. The bespoke ‘Auto-Wed’ machine then asks asks if you take each other as lawful wedded partners and to press one for ‘I do’ or press two to ‘Escape’. It then takes you through the rest of your ceremony and vends two plastic eggs with rings in and prints out your personalised wedding receipt from a thermal printer. It finishes by offering you a 10% discount for AutoDivorce with your receipt.

The team at Concept Shed say that despite how cruel and mechanised it sounds (the machine has about the same emotional feeling as a parking meter) that somehow putting in your $1, getting a pair of plastic rings and a personalised wedding receipt still feels special when you share it with the one you love. The future of matrimonial celebrations? We certainly hope not.