Northern lights: couple gets engaged under aurora borealis in Brandon, MB [Video]

Sometimes love is written in the stars, but for one couple, it’s written in the aurora borealis.

Justin Anderson, a photographer born and raised in Brandon, Man., first fell in love with taking pictures of the night sky and the northern lights in 2017. Four years later, he fell in love with Jenn Sutherland.

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“I posted a video on my TikTok, you know, I love being outside in nature, and I was trying to get into night photography,” Sutherland told CTV News in an interview.

That post came across Anderson’s feed, and he decided to take his chances.

“My comment was literally just, ‘If you ever want to see the northern lights, let me know,’” Anderson recalled. The comment sparked a conversation between the two of them, “and the rest became history,” he said.

In the years since they started dating, Anderson and Sutherland would often watch the cavalcade of …