Hilda Fung and Ivan Ho were only a click away when they first got connected - even though Hilda was living in Sydney, Australia, and Ivan was in Hong Kong.
Nine years later, on December 16, they got married in the company of more than 200 friends and relatives at the Jasmine Place restaurant in Jardine House, Central.
Hilda, 29, a project manager at a design firm, and engineer Ivan, 32, met on a Taiwan-based social networking site.
'The first time I met him, he was all pixels,' Hilda joked. 'Ninety per cent of the people on that website were from Taiwan. So when I saw on his profile that he was from Hong Kong, I was intrigued.'
The pair chatted online for almost a year before actually meeting. In 2004, Hilda returned to Hong Kong to visit her family and Ivan asked her to see a movie.
The prospect of meeting an online friend for the first time made Hilda nervous, so she asked a girlfriend to accompany her.
'When we finally met, he turned out to be really cute - even more handsome than in photos,' she recalled. 'He could be quite flirty online, but in real life he was decent and sweet.'