A British couple who married on Monday without ever having met, started a Bermuda honeymoon yesterday.

Salesman Rebecca Duffy, 28, and secretary Craig Cooper, 30, first met when Birmingham-based radio station BRMB launched a competition in January, called ?Two Strangers and a Wedding?, The Guardian reported on Monday. The couple will use their time on the Island to get to know each other since they plan on spending the rest of their life together.

BRMB?s blind-marriage competition attracted 250 contestants, however, Mr. and Mrs. Cooper were selected by a public vote of 100,000 listeners and the advice of a panel of relationship experts, astrologists and counsellors, it said. The Guardian?s Paul Lewis said the newlyweds were clearly pleased with the match-up as they stood at the altar of Birmingham?s Hotel du Vin.

?We?re holding hands already! I just feel very comfortable with Craig,? Mrs. Cooper told the UK daily. ?Tonight I think we?ll be chatting until we fall asleep.?

Mr. Cooper told the British press he was equally satisfied: ?She?s everything that I imagined ? nice dark hair, nice blue eyes, lovely smile ? she?s beautiful. I feel fantastic. It just feels really natural and I?m really happy. Right up until the vows I was thinking is this the right thing to do??

When the Coopers return from their honeymoon in Bermuda, they will be provided with a luxury city centre apartment and sports car for a year, courtesy of BRMB radio. But not everyone was happy with the union and a local vicar was stopped from entering the registrar?s office to object to what he called an ?immoral? union, it said.

?I suspect there are no legal grounds to object but I would challenge it on the grounds it is immoral,? spokesman of the Coventry and Warwickshire diocese, Rev. Mervyn Roberts told The Guardian. ?The fact is it?s a pure publicity stunt for BRMB and an insult to both them and the people of Birmingham.?

It also said the last BRMB wedding competition took place in 1999 but the marriage only lasted three months as the bride eventually married the competition host, radio DJ Jeremy Kyle.