Girl Will get Engaged to Man She Met on Airplane (Unique)

As Megan Meza settled into her window seat on her layover flight from Los Angeles to London in April 2022, she seen a cute man getting into her row.

She noticed him putting his luggage within the aisle seat and fumbling with some gadgets in his bag. That is when he unintentionally dropped his AirPods on the ground. Seeing him scramble to seek out them, Meza determined to take an opportunity and strike up a dialog.

“I used to be like, ‘Hey, I’ve dropped my AirPods earlier than. It’s best to wait. When the airplane takes off, all the pieces will roll behind us,’ ” the Los Angeles native tells PEOPLE solely of her dialog.

“And he was like, ‘Oh, thanks, thanks,’ ” she provides, recalling his reply and listening to his British accent for the primary time.

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Meza and the person, whom she later realized was named Freddie, chatted all through the boarding course of. Ultimately, one other passenger sat between them, however they did not let that cease them from conversing.

As soon as the airplane took off, the 2 continued speaking about their households, friendships and lives as finest as they may over the woman sitting in between them. Meza even knowledgeable her mother, who was sitting additional up on the airplane along with her dad, concerning the fateful encounter.

“Just a few hours later, the lights began to go off. We obtained our final glass of wine and I used to be like, ‘So good to satisfy you and cheers to the following few hours of this flight,’ ” Meza recollects.

Not lengthy after, she pulled out her ebook to learn, however she was not more than a web page in when she seen Freddie move her his telephone over the woman who was nonetheless asleep within the center seat.

Freddie had opened up his notes app and typed out a word that mentioned, “Have you ever obtained a boyfriend?”

“I then responded ‘no’ with a smiley face and despatched it again to him,” she shares.

All through the remainder of the flight, they ended up passing notes on his telephone, and even swapped seats with the lady in between them to sit down subsequent to one another. Later, when the airplane landed, they exchanged contact info, pondering they’d by no means see one another once more.

However from that time on, they began texting and Facetiming each single day. Two weeks after assembly, Meza determined to ebook a flight to London for a July go to.

“We had talked throughout these Facetime conversations about doing lengthy distance, however realized it was silly. If something, we determined it was nice attending to know one another,” she says.

When July rolled round and Meza went to London, she had a lot enjoyable and realized this relationship wasn’t one she may let go. So, she and Freddie had a chat and determined they had been going to make lengthy distance work.

“I used to be like, that is somebody that I truly actually get pleasure from spending time with,” she says. “He checks all of the containers, he is variety, he is humorous, he is gracious, he is charming, he takes care of his individuals, he is obtained nice pals, nice household.”

“Sure, lengthy distance sucks, it is by no means simple. However I really feel we each did a reasonably good job of creating it work, and it was as simple because it could possibly be given the circumstances,” she provides.

Lastly, after two years of many flights between London and L.A., Freddie obtained down on one knee and proposed to Meza on Might 21 at a park they went to on their first date.

Following their engagement, she posted a video about their love story on TikTok, which went viral, garnering 7 million views. “I didn’t count on it to explode the best way it did,” she says.

Now, reflecting on their first dialog on the airplane, Meza shares how she by no means in one million years imagined that is how the story would prove.

“I noticed a person who I assumed was very cute, and I used that as a chance to have this ‘sure’ second on a airplane the place it is like, I am by no means going to see him once more. What do I’ve to lose?” she says.