Posted on 01/13/2006 7:27:49 AM PST by Millee
Rita Sri Mutiara Dewi's fiance could not get time off from his job in the United States. But that didn't stop the couple who have never met in person from tying the knot on Thursday.
And a Muslim cleric who witnessed the ceremony between the Indonesian lovers declared it legal, she said, even though they were on opposite ends of the earth.
"We are happy that we're married now, even though we had to do it via the Internet," said Dewi, 50, noting that the two used a video link so her relatives could see her 52-year-old groom. Top Stories
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Dewi met Wiriadi, a physiotherapist who works at a hospital in California, in an Internet chat room several months ago. They exchanged pictures and contacted each other almost every day, she said, speaking usually online but other times by phone.
In November Wiriadi proposed. Over the Internet, of course.
Dewi, who works as a teacher in Malaysia, returned to Indonesia for the virtual wedding. Wiriadi, who uses only one name, was in California. It was the second marriage for both.
Dewi said Friday she plans to travel to the United States next month to meet her new husband.
Wow -- must be a heck of a consummation! LOL
I got "virtually married" once. It was fun - no hassles, no sharing the bathroom, no bitching about which movie to watch.
Even the inevitable "virtual divorce" was a breeze compaired to my 3DRL divorce.
I see a Green Card application in their future.and a little while after that,I see many,many more (parents,cousins,siblings,aunts/uncles,etc,etc).
. . .and they don't need birth control: they use a firewall instead !! (diving for cover)
ROFLMAO!!! Indeed!
Yikes.
Reminds me of my days in "the old chatroom' with a couple of knuckleheads all asking 'Wanna cyber?', only with these two its for, er, 'real'.
Cyber marriage and virtual consummation.
There's a "was it as good for you" joke in there somewhere.
Eh - we do this in the Hobbit Hole all the time :~D
oops - forgot our first mawage :~D
ROFLMBO!!
I'm too beat to see it, but I know its in there!
;-)
ROFLMAO!
Sssshhhh!!
Don't let out our secret! :-)
~sigh~ So romantic.
~smiles~
The definition of cruelty: Tauntingly pinging friends and family to threads guaranteed to elicit coffee fountains and keyboard shorts.
*chuckle*
mawage is what bwings us togethah to-day. wove, twoo wove...
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