Woman looks through old holiday photographs with her fiance
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A couple were amazed to discover they crossed paths years before they met - when an old family photo revealed he photobombed his future fiancee as a child.
Verona Koliqi and her partner Mirand Buzaku were looking through old pictures together when they noticed a child in the background of the snap was actually Mirand as a boy.
Now an Instagram make-up artist, London based Verona was on a family holiday 10 years ago in Montenegro when her future fiancé floated past her in the sea lying on a yellow lilo.
When she showed the photo to Mirand, he recognised himself and his inflatable.
“He said, ‘Hold up, I think that’s me!’ We both looked at each other and said, ‘No way, that can’t be true,'” Verona told Yahoo Lifestyle .
(Image: @veronavanity1/Instagram)
"Being the type to look behind the photo he noticed the kid in the back had the same shirt,shorts and floaty as him," Verona wrote on Instagram .
"We analyzed further and confirmed with family members that its him photobombing my family photo."
The photo shows Verona and her young cousins posing in the ocean at a beach in Montenegro with Mirand floating by in the background.
The couple, who are both originally from Kosovo, did not meet until years later.
“I never knew something like this could happen, even though I’ve heard a saying: ‘You will have passed your soul mate at least once way before you actually meet up,'” she says.
Koliqi still lives in the UK, but she was visiting Kosovo in the summer of 2016, when her path once again crossed with Mirand’s.
(Image: @veronavanity1/Instagram)
“We exchanged looks every day we saw each other but did nothing,” she said.
She made the first move by liking one of his photos on Instagram and a year later, he proposed to her at a resort in Turkey.
“I had no clue he was going to propose to me, because in our country’s tradition, engagements are planned and have to be agreed by both beforehand,” Verona said.
He arranged for music and a photographer when he got down on one knee in a restaurant.
Verona, who usually posts examples of her makeup artistry on her Instagram, shared the photo of her engagement beside the photo of their childhood almost-meeting on her account. The post quickly racked up more than 31,000 likes.