David and Michelle

A British man has met and married a 22-year-old woman after, by his own account, dreaming of her phone number and then sending her a text message.

David Brown, 24, says he woke up one morning after a night out with friends with a telephone number constantly running through his head. He decided¹ to contact it, sending a message saying "Did I meet you last night?"

Random² recipient³ Michelle Kitson was confused and wary⁴ at first but decided to reply and the two began exchanging messages. Eventually they met and fell in love.

"It was really weird⁵ but I was absolutely hooked," Kitson told the Daily Mail newspaper. "My mum and dad kept saying 'But he could be an axe⁶ murderer', but I knew there was something special about it."

"I believe that things happen for a reason. There is no way someone could have said my number in the pub, but he had that number in his head.

"I know some people will find it hard to believe, but we know the truth."

After a long courtship, the oddly matched couple have just returned from their honeymoon⁷ in the Indian resort of Goa.

A love-struck Brown said: "I've no idea how I ended up with her number in my head -- it's only a few digits⁸ different from mine."

As for the wedding day, the bride said: "It was fantastic, we couldn't have wished for a better day.