Long-distance lovers to marry in cyberspace

Andrew and Lisa

A COMPUTER-mad couple who met on the Internet are to be married by a clergyman 6,000 miles away in the U.S.

Friday August 9, 1996  

Andrew Hunt, from Wellington, Somerset, and Lisa Grosso, of Palm Beach, Florida, will officially tie the knot in November at a register office in Taunton, Somerset.
They will then visit a local cyber cafe - a coffee shop with computers connected to the Internet - for the ceremony in cyberspace.
A churchman in Seattle, Washington, will tap out the marriage vows on his computer and the couple will respond via their terminals. Friends and relatives across the world will take part in the ceremony via computer link-up.
Mr. Hunt, 33, first 'met' Miss Grosso, a 40-year-old interior designer, while surfing the Internet in May. They clicked instantly - and two weeks later she flew to England to meet him.
'I took her on a caravanning holiday to Exmoor, and days later we were engaged,' Mr. Hunt, a laboratory supervisor, explained yesterday.

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