An adopted woman travelled 6, miles from California to Romania to track down her biological family - but ended up meeting the man she would marry instead. She decided to also download Tinder before the trip - setting her location to Bucharest - in the hopes of finding a summer fling while visiting her biological family.
Before the trip, Ana Maria's best friend presented her with a gift card for dating website Tinder, encouraging her to 'have some fun' while visiting her birth family. After downloading the app, Ana Maria started chatting to Kevin, 27, a software engineer living in Bucharest, and the pair arranged to go on a date when she flew over on July 8, They hit it off and quickly became a couple - tying the knot exactly one month later, on August 8, , after realising they were 'just the right people for each other'.
The couple 'married online' - acquiring a US marriage license while based in Romania, and are planning to hold a 'real' wedding in the future in LA.
After the couple got together, Kevin helped Ana Maria to continue her mission to find her biological parents in Romania. While Ana Maria was ultimately 'disappointed' by the encounter with her birth mother, she says it was all worth it as she she met her soulmate in the process.
It was so quick, we got married exactly a month later. It was uncomfortable and awkward. I feel safe with him and we're incredibly close. Her biological mother was 17 when she gave birth - and her high school boyfriend had 'fled' to another town. She was placed for adoption within the week - and adopted by her parents, Jack Ketchian, 69, and his wife, Mariana, 73, on January 3, The couple owned a cosmetics business in LA, and had emigrated from Romania to the US in and , respectively.
