Woman's Twitter request for a wedding date ends in an adorable love story
Finding a last-minute date for a wedding can be like searching for a decent-looking and accomplished needle in a haystack.
But, one woman's Twitter request for a wedding date got her more than she bargained for. She might not have found a date for that wedding, but it landed her with a husband instead.
Llia Apostolou tweeted her request for a date to her sister's wedding back in 2014. And, with one tweet, the seed for a blossoming love story was planted.
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A chap called Phil Gibson replied to Apostolou saying he was game, and he even had a suit to wear. Bonus!
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"See you at the altar," wrote Apostolou. Ooh, flirty!
The banter didn't end there.
"It's a date! Just a date though, right?" Gibson responded.
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Three years later, Apostolou met Gibson at the altar and she married him!
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She clarified that she and Gibson didn't end up going to her sister's wedding together, but they did meet IRL for the first time that week.
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Since tying the knot on Wednesday, the couple has been posting lovely updates to the place she and her husband met: Twitter.
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Romance isn't dead, you guys.
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Congrats to Llia and Phil!
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Rachel Thompson is the Features Editor at Mashable. Rachel's second non-fiction book The Love Fix: Reclaiming Intimacy in a Disconnected World is out now, published by Penguin Random House in Jan. 2025. The Love Fix explores why dating feels so hard right now, why we experience difficult emotions in the realm of love, and how we can change our dating culture for the better.
A leading sex and dating writer in the UK, Rachel has written for GQ, The Guardian, The Sunday Times Style, The Telegraph, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Stylist, ELLE, The i Paper, Refinery29, and many more.
Rachel's first book Rough: How Violence Has Found Its Way Into the Bedroom And What We Can Do About It, a non-fiction investigation into sexual violence was published by Penguin Random House in 2021.
