One tends to see a lot of negativity on the social media platform Twitter from time to time. This includes nasty political debates, brutal online trolling and vilification of trending individuals. But for Laura and Sara the microblogging site acted as cupid and gave rise to one of the sweetest love stories we have ever heard. Well, obviously meeting on Twitter does not make their love story interesting right? How about this – Sara flew from Australia to England for her first date with Laura.

Their love story began when a British college student Laura made the first move in 2014 by adding Sara, an Australian girl pursuing her Master’s degree on her Twitter network. From the moment she saw her profile, she felt a connection with this girl.

She shared my passion for Tori Amos’ lyrics, I was like, Oh, she sounds interesting,” Laura told CNN.

Over the course of the next several months, the two women occasionally spotted one another’s updates.

“We just started noticing each other more. There was no real catalyst of anything that really stood out, except we both ended up getting a tattoo around the same time — completely separately, obviously, completely different countries, completely different things, ” Sara told CNN.

In the next few months, chatting on Twitter direct messages have become a routine for Sara and Luara, who by now understood that there’s something that binds them together.

“I think we both sort of knew that we liked each other, but didn’t really know how to navigate that,” said Sara.

Then one day, whose family is from the UK decided to drop by for a vacation, obviously for the sole purpose of meeting Laura. If things didn’t work out, she wouldn’t be stranded in another country — she had English family she could visit.

It was finalised and the flight was booked. Sara was going to fly from Australia to the UK for a first date, one of the rarest thing that a woman would have done for the love of another woman.

Both the ladies consider themselves lucky in terms of family that understands homosexuality and their daughters’ choice of partner well.

Sara boarded her flight from Sydney Airport to London Heathrow just after Christmas 2015. Meanwhile, waited for Sara in arrivals, watching a rush of people coming through the gates, and getting more nervous on not recognising Sara among them.

And then Luara spotted her among the crowd, smiling and waving at her.

 “She was standing there. She had bright red hair. She had a lovely green dress on. And she was just smiling. She’s got this like, really big smile,” Sara told CNN.

Over the next several weeks, Laura and Sara explored the UK and Europe together.

Calling it one of her best summer vacations ever, Laura said that they both decided for her to visit Australia after she finishes up her university studies in a few months’ time.

About a year after Laura moved to Australia, the couple started having more serious conversations about the future and wanted to get married.

They picked out rings together, and Sara decided Spring 2017 was the perfect opportunity to propose. At the time, same-sex marriage wasn’t legal in Australia.

The law changed at the end of that year, and after a couple of years of enjoying their engagement, Laura and Sara set a wedding date for June 2020 that got postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic.

The couple set up a wedding live stream in April 2021 and Laura’s dad organised cardboard cutouts of her parents and sister and they tied the knot in the presence of their family, virtually. Surely the perfect wedding for a couple that has seen most of their romantic milestone via internet.