What began as a simple vacation video in 2014 has unfolded into a fairytale romance. In a TikTok video, Ath Arkalis shared how an ordinary moment unexpectedly linked her to her future husband. Eleven years later, on the same date, they married. She told Newsweek she views their story as “a true instance of fate.”
According to, the clip shows 21-year-old Arkalis on August 31, 2014, leaving Greece after three months abroad. Her caption revealed the twist: “On August 31, 2014, I made this video, leaving my three-month Europe trip, not knowing that 11 years later on the same day, I will marry the Greek stranger in the back of my video.”
The Unbelievable Discovery
Arkalis and Andreas, now both 32, first met in January 2018. That November, she realized his repeated mentions of August 31 matched the day she had left Greece. Checking their passports, they discovered they’d even shared the same Etihad flight from Athens to Australia.
The shock came in April 2019. “One day…I asked him to watch my Europe trip vlog with me,” she recalled. As the video ended, Andreas spotted himself in the background, wearing a pink t-shirt he still owned. Seeing it together, Arkalis admitted, felt like fate—though “kind of scary.”
Their connection deepened through mutual friends, and they officially became a couple on August 31, 2018-before knowing the video link. Andreas proposed in May 2024, and they chose August 31 for their wedding. Revisiting the footage, Arkalis laughed at her younger self saying, “I will never speak to a Greek boy again.”
For her, each small coincidence led to one destiny. The video remains a moving reminder that some stories are truly meant to be.
Source: newsweek
