Photographer captures mystery couple proposing so Facebook steps in to help

Lindsey Crouch and boyfriend Tae Cho were engaged a few days when she got a strange message from her fiance while at a friend's house. 

All it said was: "CHECK FACEBOOK!"

Her notifications showed that she had been tagged in a comment by a woman from church.

The 23-year-old could not believe what she saw.

It was a photo taken moments before the proposal on the beach in Seaside, Florida

Their private moment was captured by Birmingham photographer Heather Swanner, who was on the beach that day when she spotted the whole thing happening.

The photographer uploaded the image to Facebook in the hope of tracking down the couple.

She wrote in the post alongside the photos, ''as I was shooting my last session on the beach, we noticed the sweetest couple getting engaged just down the beach from where we were shooting. I shot a few pictures of them but then realised that they had family hiding behind the dunes with cameras, so I moved on and finished my shoot quickly before it started raining.''

''Now, as I am going through the proofs, I wish I'd gotten their contact info so that I could send them the pictures. If you happen to know this couple (they got engaged in Seaside, FL last Friday night), please pass my info along to them so that I can send them their pictures!''

The post has received a lot of attention, with 1.6k likes, almost 500 shares and comments from people saying how amazing the story is. 

One wrote, ''made me cry with excitement you could capture that special moment. And the power of social media helps find them'' while another said, ''very beautiful and sweet that you took the time for complete strangers to capture a once in a lifetime memory.''

To top it all off, Heather presented the pair with the photos as a wedding gift.