Woman Films Night She Meets ‘Random Guy’ in a Bar—Viewers Shocked by Ending

On TikTok, we are spoiled with love stories, and one woman’s recount of first meeting to marriage fits right in.

A video posted to TikTok by Maria Camila Solis (@mcamilasolis27) went viral for revealing a video she took of her now-fiancé when he was just some “random guy” she liked at a bar. After a friend did some well-intentioned meddling, the pair is now due to be married—five years later.

Since it was posted on March 30, the video has received over 330,000 likes and nearly 2,000 comments.

The story begins with a secret recording Solis took of her future fiancé, Nate, at a bar in November 2019. She then revealed that her friend gave her number to the man after she went home that night. Five years later, in 2024, Nate proposed to Solis on a beach. She included a full clip of his proposal in her video—a funny juxtaposition from her first covert recording.

In the first recording, viewers can even see Nate noticing Solis dance, prompting people in the comments to swoon. It didn’t take long for him to text, either. Later that night, Solis received a text from Nate that said her friend gave him her number, and that he’d “love to grab a drink sometime.” Solis shared in a comment that she told Nate about her secret recording “very early” in their seeing each other.

Even more than viewers gushed at the video, they came to urge their friends to step up involvement in their dating lives.

“You make that friend VIP at the wedding!” @faithhh900 wrote.

“Need my friends to throw my number around like a confetti,” @atibc1 wrote.

“Can your friends hang out with me?” @maybe_geri619 said. “Mine always try to hook me up with the bottom of the swamp.”

Couples meet in real life more often than you think

Widespread dissatisfaction with online dating has led to a perceived renaissance of singles seeking in-person connections—but some data shows that most people are meeting their significant other off the apps, anyway.

In a study conducted by Mic, which surveyed over 2,000 people, researchers found that more 18- to 34-year-olds met their partners through mutual friends than any other means. Nearly 39 percent of people said they met through common friends, followed by 22 percent who said they met out in a “social setting.”

It turns out that having friends who act as the middleman has actually led to partnership for many—sometimes even more than online dating—and people who watched Solis’ video definitely see the merit.

Thankfully, she offered her friend’s services to eager TikTok users: “I’m sure [she] would love to keep playing matchmaker!”

Newsweek reached out to @mcamilasolis27 for comment via TikTok.