An Irishman marrying in Munich today will receive an unusual wedding gift. Mr Mick Bradley, from Dundrum, Co Dublin, has had a website dedicated to his marriage by his old college friends from Maynooth University. The joint effort of Mr Ian McDonnell, living in Tokyo and Mr Stephen Roantree, living in Dublin, allows friends and relatives who can't make it to the ceremony to send the happy couple their best wishes over the Internet. Just so those not at the wedding don't feel short-changed there's an array of quirky titbits about Mr Bradley and his fiancee, Ms Julia Herzog, on the site (http://bradleyherzog.ourfamily.com). Visitors can sign a guestbook.

The group of friends met as computer science students in Maynooth University between 1989 and 1992. During their first summer holidays from college, Mr Bradley and his friends worked in Munich, where he met his future wife.