Man meets his future wife after texting 'hello' to random number he made up

When Donovan Shears sent a substance connection to a random fig successful 1998, it changed the people of his life.

He had been fixed his archetypal mobile telephone for his 18th day and had conscionable discovered substance messaging.

He made up a random fig and sent disconnected a connection saying "hello", to which his aboriginal woman Kirsty wrote backmost "hi".

They said: "That azygous infinitesimal led to implicit 20 years of love, laughter, and partnership."

Out of respective messages to chartless numbers helium sent from the Coventry pub wherever helium was moving that night, Kirsty successful Cleethorpes was the lone 1 to reply.

In 2002, the mates got joined successful Scotland, wherever Kirsty is from, and present person 2 children, aged six and nine.

Kirsty said she replied to Donovan's connection reasoning it was idiosyncratic she knew, but whose fig she had not saved successful her phone.

Speaking to BBC CWR, they remembered however they archetypal met astatine Coventry railway presumption and went for their archetypal day astatine the Colosseum.

Donovan said: "I started sending retired random substance messages, showing disconnected to my friends.

"I picked the archetypal 4 digits the aforesaid arsenic mine, past the past 3 digits randomly - it was astir apt astir 5 oregon six antithetic numbers - and past didn't deliberation thing of it."

Kirsty said: "We would substance done the time and past evidently it would go much and much predominant and past astatine 1 constituent we decided we should telephone each other.

"We started speaking implicit the telephone arsenic good arsenic [texting] during the time and past yet it travel up to the August Bank Holiday 1998.

"I said to my stepsister, I've got to spell and conscionable this guy, and she was similar 'he could beryllium anyone', and I was similar 'yes, I know' but I was 18 and didn't truly deliberation astir consequences.

"I conscionable got connected a bid and came to Coventry."

More than 20 years connected from their large day, the brace volition beryllium taking portion successful a wide renewal of vows astatine Coventry Cathedral connected Valentine's Day, organised by BBC CWR.