“To All the Boys I Loved Before” IRL: Woman Gave Out 5 Love Letters, 1 Recipient Became Her Husband (Exclusive)

• Meg Sunga dressed up as Lara Jean from Jenny Han's To All the Boys I've Loved Before movie adaptation for a "Netflix and Chill" camp costume party. Similar to the main character, Sunga wrote five love letters and gave them to five fellow campers

• One of the letter recipients, Lamar Waterman, became her husband six years later

• "I chose mostly at random but also wanted to give letters to people I thought were fun and having a good time," Sunga tells PEOPLE.

A couple had a meet-cute that Jenny Han would approve of.

Shortly after rom-com To All the Boys I Loved Before released on Netflix in August 2018, Meg Sunga headed to Camp No Counselors, an adult summer camp where she was working as a "non-counselor." For a "Netflix and Chill" costume party over Labor Day weekend, she dressed up as TATBILB's protagonist, Lara Jean Song Covey (Lana Condor), but never expected the character to kickstart her own love story.

In TATBILB, Lara Jean writes secret love letters to her past crushes but never sends them. One day, her letters are mysteriously mailed out, including to her future love interest Peter Kavinsky (Noah Centineo). In honor of the movie, which is based off of Han's novel, Sunga decided to create five fake love letters and give them to five campers.

"I chose mostly at random but also wanted to give letters to people I thought were fun and having a good time," Sunga tells PEOPLE.

The first-time camper "had no idea" that one of her letter recipients, Lamar Waterman, would become her husband six years later.

"He was the life of the party and was easy to be around," Sunga recalls. "I remember always having a speaker in his hands, controlling the music with his phone and setting the vibes with great playlists. Whether it was hanging out at arts and crafts or chilling by the pool, Lamar was friendly to everyone and while I thought he was cute, it was refreshing to be around someone who made me feel comfortable without the anxiety of expectation."

Sunga handed Waterman a purple envelope with his name on it. Inside was a banana-shaped card from Target that read, "You’re SWEET!" on one side, and a message from Waterman on the other.

"I don’t know if I wrote the same thing on all the cards but on Lamar’s (which he still has) it said, 'My camp crush. XO, Meg,' " Sunga says.

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A week after camp, Sunga and Waterman went on their first date on Sept. 8, 2018, at Universal Studios. The following month on Oct. 18, 2018, the pair officially became girlfriend and boyfriend. Four years later, Waterman popped the question on Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, 2022.

Sunga, now 35, and Waterman, now 40, married on Aug. 30, 2024, at The Black Barn in Orlando, Florida. Of course, they included TATBILB details in their big day.

"A letter (postcard) from me to Lamar was displayed on our gift table. A month or so after our first date, I went to work at another camp weekend. Lamar and I had only been dating a few weeks but I already knew there was something different about him and our relationship," Sunga explains. "Every camp has custom postcards … This time I wrote Lamar a real letter sharing how much I appreciated him, how grateful I was to have met him, and how excited I was to see where this relationship was going. "

"You could tell I was trying to keep it cool but I really was just so giddy," she continues. "He got to read it a year later on our one year anniversary."

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Groomsman Andrew Lock, Waterman's best friend, was another one the fake letter recipients from summer camp.

Sunga felt a connection to the TATBILB movies and book series "almost instantly" because she enjoyed its romance and high school nostalgia. She also personally connected with Lara Jean because her mother died too and she is Asian American.

"I really loved that the heroine was an Asian American girl like me. Growing up in the '90s/early 2000s as an Asian American girl in Kansas, not only was I one of the few Asian girls in my school but there wasn’t a lot of pop culture representation with an Asian female main character," Sunga says. "There was something about watching Lara Jean get Peter Kavinsky in the end that felt healing for me."

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