The digital revolution hasn't contented itself with taking over our workplaces- it's commandeering our love lives, too.

Beyond the possibilities of meeting your loved one on the Internet, through chats, social networking or more structured dating services, there are myriad ways that computers are becoming part of these most significant choices we make in our lives.

Webcast weddings have been a growing phenomenon since the end of the 1990s, where friends and relatives who live too far away can watch nuptials performed  over the Internet, saving time and money, but still able to participate. Certainly email and communication modes like Twitter have replaced the telephone in keeping people updated on all the latest wedding plans.

But now comes the era of the "geek proposal." No longer a passionate love letter ending in The Question, people are proposing on their blogs, on YouTube and in increasingly unusual--and geeky--ways.

Particularly when two people are already in the tech field and spend a lot of time apart for work, these sort of communications seem destined to occur, like Stephanie and Greg, with the self-dubbed  "first Twitter proposal." She said yes.

But then there's Bernie, who spent some 30 days programming a ring and The Question into his girlfriend's Bejeweled game. (She said yes, too.)

Rand set up a website and raised money to buy commercial time during Veronica Mars to air his proposal. (She said yes, too. Noticing a trend here?)

What if you're too chicken to actually ask The Question yourself?  No worries. Now there's a handy little device that will let you record your words and then play them back from a ring box.

Even marriage scenarios that are more traditional have benefitted from the tech opportunities.  Couples who are the subject of arranged marriages in traditional Indian culture are finding that these days, the person they may marry after only a very short time is not a stranger, as has been true over the years.

Sabiha and Saud, though their marriage was arranged by parents, were able to use email and cell phones  to get to know each other before their actual wedding day. There is even an online dating service, Shaadi.com--not for Indian suitors, but for their parents--where profiles can be examined and appropriate candidates selected.

"If you build it, they will come," as the famous line goes, and apparently they will also use it in ways never anticipated.  As love moves into the 21st century, who knows what form the future of wedded bliss may take?