BIRDS OF A FEATHER,

Erno Steve

Emma Henriette Cher Bram

The Netherlands Belgium

Erno (46) and Cher (30) from Amsterdam got to know each other online. Erno: “We decided to go for a drink together and magic happened right away between us.” Cher, however, is eager to whisk him away: “We don’t normally go out together much, so we’ve got to go now and make the most of it on the dancefloor!”

Flemish couple Bram (32) and Steve (46) have been in an exclusive relationship for eight years. Bram: “I arrived at a club in Brussels at about 4 a.m. when he was about to go home. We swapped numbers, and look at us now: we are still dancing to the harder sounds of techno together.”

Cloquette (34) contacted Riham (26) via Instagram after she’d spotted him in a friend’s story, filmed at Tomorrowland. “He happened to get in touch with me after,” says Riham. “I told him right away that if he’d take me to Tomorrowland, we might get married one day. That hasn’t happened yet, but I’m hoping he might

USA

Pree (24) and Sara (24) were in the same fraternity at Berkely University. “Unfortunately, we’ve been friends ever since,” says Pree. “We’ve gone through so much together. I once helped Sara, well, empty her stomach at a friend’s party. I now live in New York and she’s still in California. Despite all of the unfortunate things that happened we still try to see each other every month.”

Mario

The Netherlands

Such bronzed lover birds you never did see, and Naomi (24) and Mario (26) find common ground in being a really cheeky bunch. “What would you do if I just ran off with this bird?” says Naomi. “What would happen if it just really feels the urge to fly away from Adscendo? How would you ever get it back?”