For engaged couple Simon Savidge and Chris Burtonwho, it all started with a tweet.
After meeting on Twitter six years ago, the British pair are now set to exchange 280-character vows in an official wedding ceremony at the social media headquarters in London next month.
According to them, it was a mutual love of cheese and beards that drew them together.
“I work in cheese and have a beard, so two out of three isn’t bad,” Chris first tweeted to Simon after reading in his twitter bio that he loved books, cheese, and beards.
Following a week of exchanging direct messages, the couple decided to go on a date - and the rest is history.
“Some family and friends have thought it was slightly unusual to find love through social media. Or very modern. However Twitter was, and still is a really interesting platform to meet like-minded individuals,” Simon said of finding love on the micro-blogging website.
He continued: “I loved that I could see from Chris’s Tweets that we had some similar passions but most importantly get a gist of his personality. He was hilarious over DM and I thought life is too short to not to see where it could lead."
The pair got engaged while holidaying in Cyprus last year, and will be married next month.
“Meeting on Twitter is a really important part to our story, as without it we probably wouldn’t have met, so it’s great if slightly surreal that we can exchange 280 character vows at the actual Twitter HQ,” he added.
