A man who came to Bermuda for his sister’s wedding made news headlines in Canada after he discovered a message in a bottle on a secluded beach in Southampton.Kyle White, of Groveland, Massachusetts, was kayaking this summer when he came across the bottle with “several items inside”, The Weekend Telegram reported.The items included a US $1 bill, leaves, yellow ribbons and a message that said: “In memory of Ralph and Alma Whelan on (their) son’s wedding day December 12.”The message asked whomever found the bottle to call a phone number. Unfortunately the last four digits had faded out.Despite that, Mr White began a search. He came across the obituaries of Ralph and Alma Whelan and found they had three sons.“Following a week of playing phone tag, it was learned that Keith Whelan did not have a wedding anniversary on December 12. He suggested trying his brother Randy,” The Telegram report said.Mr White then contacted Randy Whelan, who it turned out was the person who tossed the bottle into the ocean on December 15, following the marriage of his younger brother Neil.“The night before the cruise was over — before we went back into Miami — they put the flowers and all that in a bottle with a note, and we threw it out to sea,” said Randy Whelan’s wife Cathy. “Randy threw the bottle out, but we were all there.”It’s estimated the bottle travelled about 1,500 kilometres from an area between Miami and the Bahamas, before it reached Bermuda.“That travelled a good distance,” said Mrs Whelan.The Whelans have since exchanged e-mail messages with Mr White.Ironically, this was not the first time that Mr White has discovered a message in a bottle.He told the Telegram he has found three along the Meramec River in Groveland, where he works at a sawmill. All of the messages were from nearby towns upriver.