by Stephen Lewis and Janet HewisonWEDDING bells are in the air after a York couple found romance through the pages of the Evening Press.Twice-married psychiatric nurse Janine MacKenzie admitted she was really only looking for a friend to take to ceilidh dances when she replied to Steve Burn's advert in the Evening Press's 'Meeting Point' page.But she says when the pair did meet, in York's Flying Legends pub in December, they hit it off straight away.Lovestruck Janine, 37, from York's South Bank area, said: "We just clicked. He's tall, broad, and very male-looking, but apart from that he's just a lovely personality. In his advert he said he was a kind, caring, genuine man, and that's exactly what he is."There's no game-playing and you don't have to play hard to get. He's really genuine."The couple are already unofficially engaged, and hope to get married in the summer of next year.But Janine admitted her romance with accounts clerk Steve, 26, from Wigginton, almost never happened.She said: "I looked at those advertisements for weeks and thought I would never do anything."Because he was so young, I even put at the bottom of his letter I don't really expect you to reply. But we hit it off straight away."Steve said: "It was the first time I'd put an advert in and I thought I'd give it a whirl with a view to meeting a few people. We got to know each other in a very short time and we know we love each other."
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