A Welsh woman is moving to Australia to marry her 'Tinder match' after a glitch on the app — or, as she puts it, "fate" — paired her with a man 11,000 miles away.

Jessica Maverick, 29, matched with Steve Collins, also 29, on the dating app in January, SWNS reports.

While both had set up a maximum 100-mile radius on the app, Jessica, from Cardiff, Wales, was matched with Steve, from near Swansea, New South Wales in an apparent malfunction on the app.

After noticing the distance, the couple began exchanging a series of messages and Skype phone calls, then decided to meet halfway in Dubai in March.

Now after a whirlwind four-month romance, Jessica is moving to Australia and the couple are planning to get married, thanks to the error which they say was "the best thing that happened to them".

"Some might see this as a Tinder error but to me it was fate. Steve and I would never have met one another if we hadn't been 'wrongly' matched on the app. It was meant to be," Jessica said.

The couple, who already have matching tattoos, had both been single for six months when they matched on the app.

Jessica said she was straight away attracted to Steve's dark brown eyes and immediately swiped right. Then, after they matched she had looked at his profile and realised he was 10,655 miles away.

"I realised that there must have been a glitch in the app as we were both in range of a place called Swansea — only I was in Wales and he was in New South Wales," she said.

"I messaged him and pointed out the distance, which Steve hadn't noticed, and we joked about it and got chatting."

The couple bonded over their shared sense of humour and life experiences, and were soon messaging every day on the app and drinking wine together over Skype calls, she said.

"Our chemistry was amazing, even just on a screen," she said.

"We both admitted we loved each other. I had never felt that way before and knew we had to arrange to meet in person."

After a week-long holiday in Dubai, they began immediately planning their next meeting, she said, adding they began discussing moving overseas together and marriage.

The pair have since deleted their Tinder accounts.

Jessica dismissed scepticism about the romance, adding they speak for hours at a time and that when they met face to face she "knew I was meeting my other half".

"Steve and I will always be grateful for whatever Tinder glitch matched us to one another.

"Everything about the way we met feels like fate.

"I could never have imagined that Tinder would lead me to find the love of my life on the opposite side of the world."