RACINE, Wis. — Melody Kloska and Matt Behrs take it as a sign they were meant to get married.

After tying the knot on a Lake Michigan beach on Aug. 18, they released a bottle containing their wedding vows. A few weeks later, the bottle was found by Fred and Lynnette Dubendorf, of Mears, Mich., who were also married on a beach — exactly 28 years before Kloska and Behrs.

Kloska, 46, and Behrs, 41, have been together for five years, but with several failed marriages between them, they had doubts about remarrying.

The bottle floated across Lake Michigan and landed in the path of Lynnette Dubendorf.

"I thought, 'Wow, how funny, we were married on the beach, too, and on the same day,'" she said. She wrote Kloska and Behrs about her discovery.

The letter read, "We were also married on the beach! Even more ironic, it was on August 18, 1979."

Kloska was surprised the bottle made it across the lake.

"I took it to mean that there's hope yet," she said.