It was love at first Facebook message.Newlyweds Ayse and Darrin have a unique pandemic romance: The long-distance lovers recently tied the knot over Zoom, despite never meeting in person.The transatlantic couple met through 24-year-old Darrin’s mother, Kenda, 56.Ayse, 26, connected with her now mother-in-law via a Facebook group intended for connecting digital pen pals across the world.Kenda mentioned she had a son close to Ayse’s age, and the pair began sending messages from Detroit to the UK in July 2020.
Soon they were tying up the phone lines and data streams chatting, the five-hour time difference barely an obstacle.“It was during the pandemic, so I wasn’t working as I’d been furloughed and just altered my sleep pattern, so I was.