Michelle Wylie has spent the last four years trying to figure out the identity of an uninvited guest seen in photos taken on her wedding day. Now, thanks to the power of social media, her matrimonial mystery has been solved. “It was always in the back of my mind — who was that and why was he there?” said Wylie. In 2021, Michelle tied the knot with her husband John at the Carlton Hotel in Prestwick, Ayrshire, Scotland. When she was thumbing through the photos that had been taken that day, she spotted a man she didn’t know. She promptly asked her husband who he was, but John didn’t know either. The couple began asking their families if anyone knew the man, but no one did. Hoping to finally get to the bottom of the mystery, Michelle posted images on Facebook, hoping someone would recognize the man, or that the random stranger would finally confess. Sadly, the newlywed never got very far — until this week. She decided she was going to send a message to someone with a lot of followers and ask them to share the photo. She reached out to content creator Dazza, with over 400,000 Facebook fans and 129,000 TikTok subscribers, asking him to plaster the pictures on the two platforms. Within two hours, the unknown interloper was identified as Andrew Helliman. It turns out he’s not some sneaky creep who gets a kick out of crashing weddings. He actually made an innocent mistake when he was given misinformation about another wedding. Instead of showing up to the Great Western Hotel, Andrew entered the Carlton Hotel, unwittingly becoming a wedding crasher. He had been running late and rushed inside, where he found the groom waiting to go down the aisle. Having never seen the groom, he just assumed he was in the right place. “The fact that I didn’t recognize a single person didn’t raise any alarm bells,” said Andrew. Bells began ringing in his head once he saw the bride making her way to the altar. She wasn’t Michaela, the bride he expected to see. Knowing he couldn’t just stand up and walk out, he spent the next 20 minutes sitting awkwardly, trying to be inconspicuous. Thanks to Dazza, Michelle and Andrew finally met face-to-face. “You just don’t hear about things like this happening,” said Michelle. “I just can't stop laughing about it. It's great to finally find out who it was.”
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