“Are These AI-Generated?” — The Real Love Story Behind the Viral Wedding Photos of Anita Wing Lee and Tim Muttoo
“Are These AI-Generated?” — The Real Love Story Behind the Viral Wedding Photos of Anita Wing Lee and Tim Muttoo
When Anita Wing Lee and Tim Muttoo posted photos from their wedding, the internet did what the internet often does: it refused to believe what it was seeing. The images showed a radiant couple standing together at the altar of St. Andrew’s Church in Canada on June 21. Anita is 5'4". Tim is four feet tall. Within days the photos had been viewed more than 140 million times. Comment after comment asked the same question: “Are these AI-generated?” They are not. The couple has spent weeks gently reassuring strangers that yes, they are real people, they really got married, and their love story is even more real than the photographs suggest. A Friendship That Refused to Stay in the Friend Zone Anita and Tim met in 2021 through mutual friends in Toronto. They had a lot in common — shared values, similar circles, a quiet seriousness about life — but the romantic spark was not immediate. Tim developed feelings first. Anita kept him firmly in the friend zone. “I didn’t see him that way,” she …