Married Couple Were Unknowingly Photographed Together As Children

Here’s a coincidence story to rival my popular Married Couple In The Same Photo As Children and Photo Taken Of Father Showed His Missing Daughter posts. The odds against such things happening must be pretty high.

Six year old Nick Wheeler was making sandcastles on a sandy beach in Cornwall along with his sister and cousins. It was at Mousehole to be precise (yes, it’s a real place name). His grandfather snapped a photo (above) of them playing, as grandfathers tend to do.

Nick, with his family, were on holiday at the time and had travelled to Cornwall from Kent, about 300 miles away.

About a year later Nick’s family decided to move to Newlyn, Cornwall.

All straight forward, the years ticked by, and 11 years later Nick was attending the Sixth Form College in Truro, Cornwall where he met Aimee Maiden. The couple fell in love and later got engaged.

Time rolled on again and Nick was showing his family photos to Aimee when suddenly she shrieked, “That’s me!” And there she was in her blue swimming costume playing in the sand just a few feet away from where Nick was building a boat out of sand.

Aimee explained the amazing coincidence by saying, “The photo was taken by Nick’s grandad. Nick is sitting front right in the boat with his sister and two cousins and his family, his mum, uncle and nan are to the right and behind them. To the left and behind his cousin. I’m in the blue swimsuit with my mum, dad and sister.”

And the story ends happily because last Saturday Nick and Aimee were married at Gulval Church in Mousehole, Cornwall only a short distance from where the photo was taken 20 years ago.

Comment:

It’s strange how this sort of synchronicity happens. It’s as if we are linked to certain people in our lives and are occasionally drawn almost together – but the time isn’t quite right. For a while I worked in Uxbridge, west London and at that time Karin was living there too. We never met until about 10 or 11 years later, and then miles away in Dorset.

There are so many other stories like this. Here’s a few brief versions from comments that have been left on my Married Couple In The Same Photo As Children post:

It does seem as if there are people we are meant to meet in life, but only when the time is right.

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