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The 'IRL'
Wedding
Diary
Of Events
Here is
a brief outline of the events from the lead-up to our wedding
and the wedding itself:-
Wed August 28th
Lisa
flies back to Florida for two weeks to pack up her belongings
and move to England proper.
Sun September
1st
Andy and Lisa's story appears on the front page of Florida's
The Palm Beach Post, a major US paper
with a circulation of 250,000 plus.
Sat
September 7th
The story appears in a UK weekly national paper called The Weekly News. Andy & Lisa's picture
is on the front page - the article is on page 17.
Tue September 10th
Lisa buys a wedding dress for her and a suit for Andy while
she is over in Florida.
Thur September
12th
Lisa returns from Florida. Two weeks is not enough time to
pack!
Fri September 13th (We think)
The story appears in The Daily Echo,
which is the local paper of the Rev. Peter Murphy. This begins
the phones ringing again.
Thur September
19th
Lisa sorts out the flowers for the big day.
October's edition of Internet
Magazine prints a small article about the up-and-coming wedding.
Wed October 2nd
Lisa finally finds someone to do the wedding cake (in the
shape of a computer). With many thanks to 'Janet's Hobby', Wellington,
Somerset.
Wed October 9th
Lisa's wedding dress arrives from the States. She panics
because all the alterations are not complete, and she has to
wear on the show! She was also charged customs and VAT to bring
in into the country (£61.50)!!.
Thur
October 10th
Andy and Lisa appear on 'Club 22:45', a local TV (Westcountry
TV) chat show, with Nick Owen and other guests. They talk about
how they met for nearly five minutes, and show the proposed wedding
certificate, the homepage on a computer screen, and pictures
of the virtual church.
Sat October
12th
A photographer from the Wellington Weekly and Mid Devon Gazette
takes more pictures for a follow-up story.
Tue October 15th
The follow-up story appears in the Wellington
Weekly News.
Wed October 23rd
Lisa's friend Lee (^Lissy^) arrives in England from Florida.
Lisa breathes a deep sigh of relief as Lee is going to be Lisa's
Maid Of Honour, and help with the final preparations.
Fri October 25th
Lisa, Andrew, Mike Bugal and Peter Murphy all finally get
on-line at the same time to discuss the details for the wedding.
Wed October 30th
Lisa and Lee start getting the Taunton Cyber Cafe ready for
the reception and cyber ceremonies.
Thur
October 31st
Lisa picks up P1NWHEEL and Mush from the station. They are
on-line friends who neither Lisa or Andy had met before and were
invited to the wedding and would also help with preparations.
The publicity starts, as Lisa does an interview with local independent
radio station 'Orchard FM', and also meets Westcounty TV and
shows them around the Internet and the virtual church on AlphaWorld.
Lisa traditionally spent the night away from Andy, but fell alseep
during the proposed hen night!
Fri
November 1st
THE BIG DAY!
It was a wonderful day - the Registry Office wedding ceremony
went like a dream, and after a few technical problems in the
evening, the virtual blessing and wedding ceremonies happened
- and guests from all around the world joined in.
In the morning, Lisa did two live radio interviews - one for
BBC Radio Bristol, and the other for BBC Somerset Sound.
At 11.00am the Westcountry crew arrived, followed by the BBC
crew at 12 noon.
At the Registry Office both crews, plus HTV were waiting. The
whole ceremony was filmed, and Andy and Lisa did several interviews
after the ceremony, and numerous photos were taken.
In the evening, upon entry to the cyber cafe, the couple were
whisked straight up the stairs for more photographs, and a live
BBC TV News West Interview.
Click here for the FULL STORY of the day...
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