It was her first week on match.com when she received a “wink” from mje9232.

Although Helena thought mje9232 was cute, she was unimpressed with his minimal effort to get to know her. So she sent him an email.

The next morning, mje9232 received an email from one of the women he “winked” the evening before. Before finding Helena’s profile on Match, he went on a few dates and ended up not really enjoying any of them, which was the reason he put such minimal effort into the new women he came across.

The email was filled with tough love, like why couldn’t he write an actual message? But he was intrigued by this firecracker. He wrote back, and after messaging back and forth on match.com for the morning, Helena gave mje9232 her cell phone number, after finding out his name was Mike and that he seemed like a really nice guy.

After texting and emailing back and forth for a couple days, they both realized they had a lot in common. And so they scheduled their first date.

Helena double-booked Mike and another match.com fellow for first dates on the same day! Helena ended up skipping the happy hour suitor and headed straight to her 8:00 p.m. date with Mike.

And it was on that date when Mike knew Helena was a keeper and he quickly fell in love with her, and she with him. The rest is history.

I loved meeting up with Helena and Mike for their engagement session outside of Philadelphia in their town of Conshohocken! And now I’m over the moon excited for their Cairnwood Estate Wedding next October.

Congratulations Helena and Michael!