Monday, September 28, 2009

Bottle of Love

Source: Straits Times, Monday March 1, 1965

Love and marriage - via message in bottle

LONDON, Sun - Twenty-year-old Elizabeth Kaye was married yesterday to the boy she caught with a lemonage bottle 10 years ago.

The bottle with a message, thrown into the sea off the Yorshire coast, washed up at the feet of 13-year-old Erik Brekke in Hyide Sande, Denmark.

A pen-pal friendship started and blossomed into romance after they met in 1963. Later that year Erik asked Elizabeth to become his bride.

After the ceremony, Elizabeth said: "It's almost like a fairy story. I never expected the bottle to arrive anywhere, never mind receiving a reply like I did."

- Reuter

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