This long-distance couple went from Instagram lovebirds to Insta-marriage lovebirds. Taking a gamble on true love, Erica Harris married a man just seconds after meeting him for the first time at an airport in California. The two randomly connected a year ago on the photo social media app, Instagram. The long-distance relationship between Harris and her new husband, Arte Vann, grew with love poems and songs over social media.
The couple lived on two different coasts across the country. Harris lives in California and Vann is a New Yorker. When the couple met for the first time on Friday, Vann got straight to the point and got down on one knee and proposed immediately to the woman he had only seen in photos and videos from their budding online romance. He told her, "Don't listen to your thoughts. Don't listen to your head. Follow your heart. Follow your soul."
Harris' Instagram profile now says she's married "to the man of my dreams," while Vann called her "the love of my life." The two met last March after Vann posted a poem with the hashtag #7deadlysins, where Harris commented, "you had me at lust." The two had used the same hashtags for the poetry and writing community on Instagram when chance encounter happened.
Harris said, "You don't drag your feet with real love. You leap into that like there's no tomorrow, and that's what we're doing." Well, I have to say that this was pretty risky. I mean, yeah, you know each other from Instagram, but you don't really KNOW the person. What if he's nice and romantic on Instagram, but has a record of domestic violence? Too late! You just married the guy. What if she was single because she killed all of her previous lovers? Too late! You just married her. I know these might sound like silly scenarios, but how can you marry someone you've never met before? Social media can be your best friend or your worst enemy. I guess the only way to see if this lasts is keep an eye out in the news to see if either of them shows up dead somewhere.
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