The cyber bride Adding a whole new meaning to computer dating: Internet lovebirds Andrew and Lisa now plan to share their cyber wedding on the net

By Andy Smith

COMPUTER buffs Andrew Hunt and Lisa Grosso will have up to ten million people at their wedding, when they hold the World Wide Web's first cyber- marriage ceremony.
The couple, who met while chatting on the Internet only three months ago, will have a real marriage ceremony in November, followed by a honeymoon in Florida, where Lisa hails from.
But before that, Andrew wants to hold an Internet 'wedding' from his home in Wellington, Somerset, with anyone who uses the global computer network welcome to join the ceremony as their guests.
He is to set up an Internet site with a digitised wedding chapel and images of themselves, with wedding music, their vows typed across the screen and perhaps even using an Internet priest to conduct it all.
Andrew, aged 33, met his 40-year-old bride-to-be while 'talking' on a real-time chat programme on the Internet and arranged to meet in the flesh inside weeks.

They announced their engagement two weeks ago after taking a holiday together in Porlock and put news of their forthcoming marriage on to the pages of the Internet, since when, congratulations have been arriving from all over the world.

You really get to know each other quickly on the net. It is much better than by post or phone, you get an instant reply and can get much deeper into each other's feelings," said Andrew, a laboratory supervisor at Wellington bed-making firm Relyon.
Lisa, an unemployed interior designer, said: "Everyone has their own code name, but some people lie so much about themselves on the net that they then can't live up to it."

We started off telling each other everything, warts and all. I had planned to spend a holiday in the UK later this year, but Andrew wanted me to come over straight away and when we met I knew it was the real thing."
The couple, who have great experience of the Internet, don't believe anyone has tried to organise a wedding ceremony on screen before and have invited its users, potentially millions of people, to contact them with ideas and advice.
*Those wishing to contact Andy and Lisa can at email address: andrew@andyhunt.u-net.com

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