FROM chatting on the information super-highway to walking down the aisle, a Worcestershire couple has proved it's possible to find love on the internet.

Mike and Rodna Allen, of Tuer Way, Inkberrow, met in a chat room in 1998, and on Saturday, August 26, they tied the knot at the village church of St Peter's.

Thirty-two-year old Mike was encouraged to surf the internet by a colleague at Haydon Marketing, Droitwich.

"One day Rodna came on and wanted to chat, so I logged into a private room and started chatting away," he said.

"After six months of chatting every night we were getting on really well, so I decided to meet her."

Mike flew over to New York where his future wife lived at the time.

Originally from Macedonia, in the former Yugoslavia, the 31-year-old had moved to America with family and friends where she was registered as a nurse.

"He was everything I expected. I liked him immediately I saw him," she said.

"He didn't lie when we were chatting. He was very honest.

"I already loved him. I was ashamed to tell anyone because they would say I didn't know him."

Mike, who is partially deaf, returned to New York to spend last Christmas with Rodna and at the stroke of midnight, in Times Square, he proposed.

"I was very happy when she said 'yes' and in March this year, she came over here and we started planning the wedding," he said.

Rodna's mother gave her away and a cousin and best friend were bridesmaids, but unfortunately not all her family could come to the UK.

"I have a lot of family in the US, but it was difficult for them to come over. Because of their visas they wouldn't have been allowed back," said Rodna.

"On the internet you meet a lot of people from all over the world, and I met Rodna," said Mike.

"It was destiny," added Rodna.

The couple plan to honeymoon in Greece later and Rodna hopes to work in Britain, as a nurse.