Schuler Benson logged into Celeste Zendler’s Facebook account via a glitch and the pair are now married

The woman, Celeste Zendler, had no mutual friends and Schuler, a writer, had never seen or even heard of her before. She lived in Colorado, which is over 1,600 kilometres away from his home in Arkansas.
Schuler was stuck in Celeste’s account for a week and the pair began to communicate as ‘This is Celeste’ and ‘This is NOT Celeste’. Celeste sent Schuler a friend request to see if it would fix the glitch and it worked.
Schuler was able to log out of Celeste’s accout and get back into his own account.
Celeste, a student, told heavy.com that she had intended to add Schuler as a friend gor a couple weeks in order to make sure the glitch was fixed and then delete him. Her plans though changed as she got to know him.
“I never did (delete him) because I enjoyed his status updates,” she said. “He would post such funny stuff that I liked having him in my feed. We commented here and there on each other’s statuses and that is how we got to know one another.”
The friendship slowly grew into a romance.
 “It literally took years to go from Facebook friends to a romantic relationship,” Celeste said.
She was already in a serious romance until 2012. The following year she began dating Schuler and moved to Arkansas to be near him.
The romance developed and on June 11 last year, Schuler logged into Celeste’s Facebook account for the second time — but this time on purpose.
Since they met on Facebook, he could not propose to her where they first met. Hacking into her account, took them back to their first meeting and Schuler posted a wedding proposal.
“He was waiting for me to check my Facebook and had the ring in hand,” she said.
Celeste said yes and the pair married in South Carolina, where they now live, on June 21 this year.
Schuler revealed to imgur the amazing love story on the six year anniversary of their remarkable meeting.
As Schuler said in his proposal post: “In the fall of 2009, Facebook already had over 175 million users. Rounding down, the odds of us connecting were less than 1 in 175,000,000. Statistically speaking, you’re about 300 times more likely to be struck by lightning. You’re more likely to be bitten by a shark … on land. And you’re about as likely to win the Powerball Jackpot … with the exact same numbers as someone else.”
Despite the odds being slim, Schuler said the pair found they had a lot in common.
“I found my partner, my best friend and my great love due to a simple glitch on social media.”

This St Louis couple met via an accidental text message

The pair, from St. Louis, continued communicating after realising they had a lot in common, sharing recommendations on books, movies and music, before meeting in person for the first time a week later, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
Upon their second meeting two days later, they each arrived at a coffee shop at different times and realised they had ordered the same drink.
“From the very, very beginning it felt like we were on the same wavelength,” Glendening said.
Despite a 30-year age difference, Bergh and Glendening’s connection flourished, and they moved in together within two months.
“It really didn’t make any difference,” Glendening said. “We were so connected at that point through deeper stuff.”
He credits Bergh with helping him get out of an “awful place” in his life, which included an unhappy relationship and a dead-end job.
“Kasey is a huge inspirer. She wasn’t recommending or advocating any particular direction I go, but she encouraged exploring, finding out what I want to do,” Glendening said.
Bergh believes Glendening caused her to again believe in love and change her mind about remaining single after her divorce six years prior.
“I had totally embraced I was single and that I never needed a guy,” Bergh said. “Then I met Henry.”
Exactly two years after the arrant text message, Glendening proposed to Bergh at a rooftop restaurant where they ended their first meeting, with her favourite song, Thank You by Led Zeppelin, playing in the background.
The couple married June 27 in front of a graffiti wall near the St. Louis riverfront.

“MY HUSBAND SOLD HIS MOTORBIKE”

When Robyn and Richie Langton tied the knot in 2013, he offered to sell his beloved motorbike to give her the day of her dreams.
“Our son Zac was a toddler then and Richie was never finding the time to ride it. As the price of the wedding soared he said he would sell it,” Robyn, 36, says.
“It paid for about half of the wedding and without that we would have had to curb our guest list and other things. This way we didn’t have to skimp — and I could get the dress I really wanted!”

“WE TOOK A SECOND JOB”

As Jessica Moorhouse’s wedding approached in May 2013, she and her husband took on second jobs to help fund the day.
For Moorhouse, who writes the award-winning Mo’ Money Mo’ Houses blog and works fulltime as a digital marketer, it meant freelance writing and running the teleprompter for the nightly TV news, while her sound engineer husband worked nights doing sound for events and theatre productions.
The extra work ended up funding about 25 per cent of their wedding, but Moorhouse admits it was exhausting.
“I can’t remember a time I’ve ever worked so much or so hard in my life,” she says.
“But I knew it was only going to be like that for a year or until I earned enough money that I wasn’t worried about wedding costs anymore.”

“I STARTED AN ETSY STORE”

When graphic designer Jen Berries, 28, couldn’t find wedding invitations she liked, she decided to design her own and open an Etsy store to raise funds for her marriage to Curt next April.
“Whatever I earn from my store She Fox Invitations is strictly for our wedding,” she says.
“We’ll use it to buy the materials for building the arbour to get married under, plus use it for gifts for the bridal party and for our honeymoon.”

“WE MADE A BUSINESS OUT OF OUR WEDDING”

Kristy Oates, 33, made all sorts of vintage props for her wedding to husband Brendon in 2014, then created a business, The Collection Vintage Props, after their wedding to pay themselves back.
Now they hire out the lawn games, vintage photo booth and even crockery to other couples who want a vintage-looking wedding, and get to recoup the cost of their wedding.
“Brendon was getting annoyed that I was buying so much stuff for the wedding but I kept saying I would hire it out afterwards so I had to stick to my word!” Kristy says.
“I’m a graphic designer so I just set up the website, did a couple of ads and it’s spread via word of mouth.”

“OUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS HELPED FOOT THE BILL”

After meeting in a bar in Brooklyn in May, Jacob Rossignuolo, from Melbourne, and Nicole, from New Jersey, US, fell in love and decided to get married in September.
Jacob had been travelling for 18 months and maxed his credit cards so created a GoFundMe page to ask friends and family for a bit of help for the $1500 they’d need to hire an Elvis impersonator to marry them by Lake Tahoe in Nevada, plus pay for a hire car for a honeymoon road trip.
“We saw it as a gift for the wedding. I specifically asked people to just give what they could — anything would make a difference,” Jacob, 27, says.
They had a few friends in attendance and planned to get them to take some photos but in a stroke of good luck, a wedding photographer saw them on the day and offered to take some photos for free.
Now they’re planning wedding parties with all their friends and family in Melbourne over New Year’s and in the States in February.
“It was like the wedding in Tahoe was the ceremony but we are having two different receptions in each country,” Jacob says.

The crazy ways people are funding their weddings

When they noticed the big bucks their friends were making by renting out their home on Airbnb, Beck Rocchi, 30, and her fiance Joel Olsen, 29, decided to advertise their one-bedder in Windsor, Melbourne, to save some pocket money for their November wedding.
“The first time we were going away for three weeks and the apartment got booked straight away,” wedding photographer Rocchi says.
“Then we started renting it out when we were still in Melbourne and just went to stay with my parents who live 15 minutes away.”
They’ve managed to pocket about $13,000, which they’re putting towards extra entertainment, styling and better quality food.
“It’s such a big chunk of the wedding and takes a bit of the financial pressure off,” she says.
Shane Mackaness, 39, and his fiancee Lucy are doing everything from gardening to business admin to save up for their wedding on the Sunshine Coast next May.
The couple advertise their services on Airtasker and have done more than 94 odd jobs, earning hundreds of dollars a week.
“We do a lot of jobs together so even though we are using our days off from our fulltime jobs to do this, we are still spending time together,” Mackaness says.
“We have worked seven days a week for months, so sometimes we have to block out a day or a weekend for a rest.”
The elbow grease is paying off though — they estimate they’ll cover half the cost of the wedding, plus make a substantial contribution towards their guests’ accommodation costs.

Wedding guest billed for no-show by angry bride

One of the missing guests, Jessica Baker, told a US television station that she was forced to stay at home because her mum was no longer able to babysit at the last minute.
A few weeks after the wedding, Mrs Baker received a bill asking her to cover the cost of her and her husband’s meals.
“You’ve got to be kidding me,” Mrs Baker said in the interview. “[The bill] listed, we would have had two herb crusted fish and there was also a service and tax charge.”
But the bride didn’t end there. The bill also came with a note for Mrs Baker and her husband that read; “This cost reflects the amount paid by the bride and groom for meals that were RSVP’d for, reimbursement and explanation for no show, card, call or text would be appreciated.”
Asked whether she would have reacted the same way, had it been her wedding, Mrs Baker said, “I guess I don’t know what the right answer would have been. What the right thing to do would have been.”

Father of the bride takes stepdad down the aisle in beautiful gesture

Ohio-based photographer Delia D Blackburn wasn’t lying when she posted this collection of sob-inducing wedding photos to her Facebook page.
Blackburn explains, “Todd Bachman, father of the bride (Brittany), brought his daughter to the beginning of the aisle ... he stopped the procession while people were confused at his actions and he walked up to his daughter’s stepfather.”
“Todd reached out his hand and grabbed Brittany’s stepfather and pulled him down the aisle to walk their daughter down the aisle together. NOT A DRY EYE at the ceremony ... including me!”
So far the Facebook post has received 1,190,518 likes and has been shared 525,785 times.
“Families are what we make them ... make it about your kids and not your ego,” concludes Blackburn’s post.