Labour of Love
Eunmi Park and Nicholas Tam, September 11th, 2010, Caledon, Ontario. By Kate Stewart
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About the couple
Bride: Eunmi Park
Groom: Nicholas Tam
How they met: “Nick and I first met in Waterloo at a tea shop, where we both worked part time during University,” says Eunmi. “Nick was a bartender and I was working as a waitress. We had many shifts together and developed a friendship and trust over a three-month period. Nick was a year older and had moved back home to Toronto after graduating and immediately started working at a consulting company. I still had a year left in school and was very busy with my studies. A year had passed and we sent emails back and forth until April 2006. Nick was in London, England on a business trip and it just so happened I was going to be in London at the same time. We made some arrangements to meet for a drink. This was our first time seeing each other since Nick graduated. After that day we continued to live our separate lives, chatting occasionally until December when Nick finally had the courage to ask me out on a date and the rest is history!”
Engagement story: “This story really began when Nick decided to learn how to fold paper origami,” Eunmi explains. “For the next few days he became an expert at making paper cranes. My parents were living out of town at the time but since Nick had to work he couldn’t come with me to visit them. Nick wanted to give my parents a gift, so he folded paper cranes for my parents to hang in their bedroom. Then when I came back from visiting my parents, he picked me up at the airport and gave me a CD of his favourite songs and the CD case had two paper cranes stuck to it, one red, and one blue. The same day, we were at his house, and he told me to take a look at all the paper cranes he’d folded while I was gone. I thought he just really wanted me to be proud of his origami skills, so I started looking at the paper cranes he’d displayed on his bookshelf,” she says. “And there it was. A shiny silver paper crane with a shiny ring looped on its tail! As I turned around, he knelt down on one knee and asked me to marry him. It was the happiest day of my life.”
Photography courtesy Boyfriend/Girlfriend Pictures (boyfriendgirlfriendpictures).
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I was so touched by the lovely and romantic story. The pictures are gorgeous and loved all those paper cranes. Congrats again to the lovely couple!
— Florinda Grenning (July 20, 2011 at 2:41 p.m.)