Wife logs off her Internet husband

THE COMPUTER wizard behind Britain’s most romantic website has split from his wife because of his obsession with weddings.
Computer-crazy David Allison spent so much time setting up the biggest wedding website in the UK, his wife Sylvia gave him his marching orders.
David (45) groaned, “She found me a bedsit, packed a few possessions — including my computer, thank goodness — and dumped me.”
The trouble began in the six-year marriage when David bought a computer to try to save an ailing wedding photography business.
He said, “I wanted to computerise my business records, but then the Internet took off and I began my wedding services website.”
He started with his own business, based in Fife, then began adding details of other companies with matrimonial links.
As his photography business crumbled, the computer nut carried on with his website
undeterred. He also got a job as a furniture delivery man, travelling all over Scotland.
David said, “It was great. Everywhere I went I gathered more information about wedding services. I would go home at night and sit at my computer for hours.
“The website has taken me two years so far and is the biggest in the UK. It has cost me my
marriage and my home, but I’m doing something I like and that’s all that matters.”
An accident forced David out of his furniture delivery job and he’s now studying for an HNC in Information Technology Systems at Elmwood College in Cupar, Fife, as a mature student.
He said, “I really am a poor student. I don’t make a single penny with the website. I don’t charge anyone anything to be included on it.
“One company, which had just spent £36,000 on magazine advertising, contacted me but I charged them nothing.”

More than 800 people a day visit David’s romantic website.

Although www.wedding-service.co.uk has an average of 830 visitors every day, and a quarter-of-a-million pages have been looked at already this year, David runs the service on a
shoestring.
He won his latest computer, worth £500, in an Internet magazine and bought his old-fashioned telephone in a second-hand market.
He said, “Other wedding sites have millions of pounds poured into them. They’re all packed with pretty graphics, whereas mine has ordinary photographs.
“But it has just about everything, including advice on dresses, kilts, venues, flowers, cars, and rings. I have just about every wedding service in the UK listed.
“It also has some unusual things, such as a new company recently set up which will release butterflies at weddings and a man who will ghost-write speeches.”
Experts say someone is likely to offer a great deal of money for his site, but David says, “I have been poor most of my life and don’t need much.”