Social Media Helps Couple Find Engagement Picture Taken By Stranger in Iceland

Here’s a story that will restore your faith in both humanity and social media.

On a snow covered, picturesque street in Iceland,  Michael Kent of the United Kingdom dropped to one knee and asked his girlfriend, Fiona Newlands, to marry him.

As it turns out, a stranger who had just left a local pub caught glimpse of the proposal and captured the moment on camera. In the ensuing exchange with the photographer, Jessica Bowe, Kent misspelled his email address – he was excited, after all.

Dear Internet. Last night I proposed to Fiona Newlands in Iceland. A random woman took our picture as it happened (we…

Posted by Michael John Kent on Saturday, November 28, 2015

Later that evening, when Bowe’s email wouldn’t send and Kent had yet to receive the photo, they both realized the mistake.

“We went back to our apartment, I checked and there was just no email, so I went, ‘Oh, I wonder if I put it in wrong’, so I worried, and the next day, it still wasn’t there,” he told Today.com.

“The thing is, it still would have been an amazing moment without the picture, but the fact we knew the picture existed made it feel almost devastating that we didn’t have it.”

Thanks to appeals for assistance from both Kent and Bowe on social media, the soon-to-be newlyweds now have the photo to capture the moment. Kent posted a Facebook status, which he copied for Twitter, and mentioned the local paper Reykjavík Grapevine for help.

I can’t believe what’s happened. The woman who took the picture of me proposing to Fiona in the street, posted it online…

Posted by Michael John Kent on Saturday, November 28, 2015

As it turns out, Bowe had also been in touch with the paper that day, requesting them to post the image from their social media accounts.

Thankfully, the couple hadn’t left the country yet, and were able to meet up with Bowe before their flight back to the UK.

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