2 Red Sox Fans Who Met on Twitter Got Married at Fenway Park

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Cody Anderson kisses his new bride Shannon Armitage at Fenway Park on April 4, 2014.

By Sam Laird2014-04-04 21:35:02 UTC

It reads like the script of a romantic comedy — but this is real life.

Two Boston Red Sox fans who met on Twitter because of a post from the official team account got married at Fenway Park on Friday morning — the same the day team received its 2013 World Series championship rings.

The romance began back on Aug. 10, 2011, when the Red Sox posted this tweet for Shannon Armitage, a huge Boston supporter, at the behest of Armitage's sister, Ashley.

That got the attention of one Cody Anderson, a Red Sox fan living in Quincy, Ill.. He followed her and then tweeted this six days later.

They struck up a little Twitter correspondence, he from Illinois and she from her home in Southwick, Mass. Tweets became texts, bringing their digital courtship to a new level of intimacy. Over Memorial Day weekend in 2012, Armitage visited Anderson in Illinois and they met for the first time. In July 2013, she moved for good.

And that brings us back to Friday, when the couple got married at Fenway Park — Boston's iconic yard — just before the actual players received their World Series rings ahead of 2014's home-opening day game. The happy couple calls it a #DoubleRingCeremony (hashtag included).

The couple were kind enough to provide Twitter updates throughout the big day. Cody started with a general statement:

This was followed by an in-transit update:

Anticipation started to build:

Then, finally, the moment we'd all been waiting for:

And the obligatory selfie:

But the best part? The Sox-fan lovebirds even got a pic with the Fenway cop whose photo went viral during last year's MLB playoffs:

Our only question: Who plays them in the movie?