Couple Who Met Accidentally After a Mistaken WhatsApp Message, Are Now Married

The couple has revealed how one WhatsApp message to the wrong number changed both their lives forever.

Marriages are made in heaven, they say, and Lina and Michael could vouch for it after meeting through a wrong WhatsApp message. The couple has revealed how one WhatsApp message to the wrong number changed their lives forever. Last year, Lina Dahlbeck, 37 from Morden, South London, received a WhatsApp message from an unknown number, which she assumed was sent by mistake. The message, which read “Girls Trip”, was sent by Michael Evangelou, 44, from Colliers Wood in south London, to a number he thought was his own as a reminder to see the film at the cinema. However, he was shocked when he received a reply saying, “Hi! Girls trip? Who’s this, please? I’m guessing this was intended for another Lina.”

After realizing that he had unintentionally sent the message to a stranger, the pair struck up a conversation as they attempted to figure out exactly what had happened. Despite never meeting, they chatted for most of the day before arranging to meet for a drink later that night. When they met for the first time, they chatted and later kissed that night and met up again the next day for brunch.

Lina said, “We started chatting back and forth. I think if I wasn’t single I wouldn’t have continued the chat. I had checked the picture on his WhatsApp profile and he was attractive. He was so attractive. He talked a lot but I realized it was because he was nervous. It was really adorable. We were both so puzzled by the whole thing – we were on a date just four hours after that WhatsApp message. We were convinced it was fate that had brought us together.”

What followed was a instant romance neither of them expected and just two weeks after their first date, Michael proposed. The couple married on December 7 and claimed that their story is a lesson to others not to give up on love.

Take a look at Lina and Michael’s picture post marriage:

#newlyweds #❤️ we couldn’t have wished for a more beautiful day full of love with close friends and family. #happy #brideandgroom #weddingday #michaelxlina #weddingselfie

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