Wedding bells

The power of love … My two former students, Veronica and Styves, just got married in Canada. Veronica is Korean and Styves is from Gabon, West Africa. They met and fell in love when Styves’ father was working as a diplomat in Seoul. But from then on things weren’t easy.

Their respective families weren’t, well, over-joyed by the prospect of their union. Living together in Korea was out of the question and living in Gabon wasn’t easy either. Instead they figured out that they could go to study in Sweden, and that’s where I first met them back in 2002. They moved on to London and did a Master’s at LSE, but afterwards they were, once again, forced apart. Veronica decided to emigrate to Canada and for the longest time I didn’t hear anything about Styves.

Yesterday, however, I got this photo. Styves decided to do the right thing — he flew from Gabon to the Canadian prairie for a quick but by all accounts very romantic ceremony. Isn’t love great?! Best of luck to the two of them.