By Joe Capozzi and Derek Willis
Palm Beach Post Staff Writers

No one objected to the wedding of Andy Hunt and Lisa Grosso on Friday - not that anyone could have.
Guests from Norway to London to Palm Beach Gardens said not a word - because a computer operator prevented any chitchat during the matrimonial ceremony in cyber-space.
Grosso, 40, of suburban West Palm Beach, met Hunt while chatting on the Internet in May. Within a week Hunt, 33, sent Grosso a plane ticket, and she met him in England. Seven weeks later, they were engaged.
Several hours after tying the knot before a London clerk Friday, they exchanged vows again in a special ceremony before a live Internet audience of at least 30 and several television cameras.
"Will you promise to e-mail and to chat and never to flood her until system crash do you part? Will you share all life has to offer both on-line and IRL (in real life) with her from this day forward?" asked the Rev. Mike Bugel of Seattle, who officiated the cyberspace ceremony.

THE REV. MIKE BUGEL

Videos of church weddings have been shown on the Internet, but organizers of this live ceremony say it is a first.
The event was hosted on Internet Relay Chat by the server Undernet, which has computers in Britain and throughout North America. The company enables people from around the world to talk privately with others or, like on this occasion, become an audience.
"A civil ceremony in addition to this was considered wise," typed Bugel, who has a Web site called Cyberspace Celebrations and assisted in the blessed event. "The legality of cyberspace is still being worked out."

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