A Scottish waitress is to marry her American fiance after he proposed just 24 hours after meeting her in person.
Dani Scott fell for retail worker Jake after he commented on her YouTube post about old-fashioned mobile phones.
The pair ended up chatting and last month her love interest, 24, jetted over from South Carolina to visit her in Scotland.
Just a day later, he went down on one knee asking the 22-year-old, from Galashiels, Roxburghshire, to marry him.
She had only called off her wedding to her ex-fiance, Matthew, months earlier and is now prepared to moved across the Atlantic after their nuptials next summer (2027).
The former theology student admitted her friends were worried about her getting engaged so soon after her break-up but insisted it was the right thing to do.
Ms Scott had been due to walk down the aisle in October, having already postponed the wedding by a month but the couple decided to call it a day at the last minute.
Weeks later, she ‘met’ Jake after he commented on her ‘dumbphone’ video and the pair ended up chatting.
Dani Scott said ‘yes’ when American Jake proposed to her just 24 hours after the pair met in person for the first time
She said: ‘I met Jake through YouTube, a month after splitting from my fiancé, who I broke up with a few weeks before our wedding.
‘We both made videos about dumbphones and started chatting.
‘After a few phone calls we decided we liked each other, even though he’s in America, and I’m in Scotland.
‘I like that he sees the world differently to other people.
‘He’s very gentle, kind, and really into nature, we just instantly clicked.
‘We started dating a week after our first call, even though we’d never met in person.
‘He came to visit me for the first time in February 2026 and spent 12 days in Scotland with me.
‘It was amazing, the best 12 days of my life, we just got on so well.
Scottish waitress Dani Scott and her American fiancé plan to wed in summer next year
‘The day after we met, Jake proposed, whilst we were on a walk.
‘I knew it was going to happen, but it was still so exciting.
‘Long distance is really difficult; it was much easier to cope before we’d met in person.’
She said her family have ‘come round’ to the relationship but some of her friends still need convincing especially as they did not even know she’d split up with Matthew.
Ms Scott said the pair had met at university in 2024 while studying theology and were engaged within six months with the wedding planned for last September.
But as their relationship soured they first postponed the ceremony by a month before pulling the plug on the plans and going their separate ways.
She uses her YouTube channel to post videos about mobiles that do not have internet access or apps and how they are better than smartphone.
Intrigued, Jake commented under one of her videos, telling her that she had inspired him to start his own channel.
He also began posting about dumbphones, and the pair became invested in each other’s channels.
In December he asked for her email address and then to call her.
Following their phone conversations they decided to ‘start dating’ even though they’d never met and lived 4,000 miles apart.
And after he flew over to visit her in February for a 12-day trip, they knew they wanted a life together.
Ms Scott, who first told her story to Talk to The Press, said: ‘We’d decided we wanted to get married from the first moment we started talking.’
They wanted to move fast so that she can apply for a visa and move to the United States.
The pair believe it could take over a year for the paperwork to get processed to are planning to get wed in his native South Caroline in the summer of next year.
Because her family will not be able to attend the wedding due to costs, the couple plan to have a celebration in Scotland before their big day to share the moment with her relatives.
While her visa is being processed, Ms Scott is unable to visit the U.S. meaning the first time she goes there is for her wedding.
However, Jake plans to visit his Scottish fiancée every few months to until then.
