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Mark’s cheap nups included $25K wedding ring, Mexican food

DEAD RINGER: Priscilla Chan, out this week with a friend after her wedding to Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg, models her cheapo ruby ring.

DEAD RINGER: Priscilla Chan, out this week with a friend after her wedding to Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg, models her cheapo ruby ring.

DEAD RINGER: Priscilla Chan, out this week with a friend after her wedding to Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg, models her cheapo ruby ring.

DEAD RINGER: Priscilla Chan, out this week with a friend after her wedding to Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg, models her cheapo ruby ring. (Deano / Splash News)

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It looked as if Mrs. Mark Zuckerberg had won the lottery when she married the Facebook boss last weekend — but now she appears to be the unluckiest lucky woman alive.

Zucker-bride Priscilla Chan dined out in Palo Alto, Calif., this week revealing the itty-bitty rock her man — who is worth about $17 billion on paper — put on her finger as they exchanged vows Saturday.

But the ring — a ruby bookended by two diamonds — was estimated to be worth just $25,000 by one jeweler.

Even 72-day bride Kim Kardashian got a $2 million engagement ring from groom Kris Humphries.

Instead of the fairy-tale ceremony of most women’s dreams, Chan wound up with a wedding in her own back yard that featured $7.50 Mexican food.

And now, she has an anniversary that will always be overshadowed by her hubby’s much-hyped and thoroughly disappointing IPO — the aftermath of which may or may not be the reason that the new bride was dining with friends rather than having been whisked away on a honeymoon.

The medical-school graduate looked grim Wednesday as she was photographed at lunch date with pals showing off her surprisingly humble ruby wedding ring — which Zuckerberg said he made himself.

“What happened to three months’ salary, Mark?” joked one report in the Daily Mail, that noted the ring was probably worth about $25,000, which would be like a regular working guy giving his bride $1 ring out of gum machine.

A lot of commenters on the Internet surely did not “Like” his choice of rings.

“That ring is UGLY! Who gives their wife a ruby? YUCK! He should have bought her a nice BIG diamond ring,” declared the reader Marible on the paper’s Web site.

Chan also reportedly had to go through a spectacular effort to get her dress.

Most bridezillas would be spitting fire.

To satisfy Zuck’s lust for privacy, she traveled to Denver and used a phony name to get fitted, The Daily Beast Web site reported.

But Zuckerberg has been called out as not the most romantic man before.

When Chan graduated from Harvard and moved to Palo Alto to be with her sweetheart, she had to get him to agree to a relationship contract, according to the book “Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good: the Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0.’’

The contract stipulated that they have one date a week, at least 100 minutes of alone time, but “not in his apartment and definitely not at Facebook.”

These days, she probably doesn’t like all the speculation about the timing of their union — the day after Facebook went public.

Experts say that whatever Zuckerberg earned before he got hitched remained his alone after.