Nicholas Walton and Maggie Chooi met in 2009 during a coffee break at a travel conference where Nicholas, as travel editor for the media sponsor, was a speaker.
'Nick impressed me with his charming smile and his unique sense of humour. And he looked very smart on the stage,' events planner Maggie recalled.
'I admit I was captivated from the moment I met her and we hit it off right away,' Nicholas said.
The couple wed on April 7 in New Zealand's Auckland Domain park. They will visit Maggie's hometown, Ipoh in Malaysia, next month for a traditional tea ceremony. In September they will hold another celebration, at the exclusive Chalina Estate villa in Bali.
Although they didn't see each other again for two weeks after the conference, Maggie knew Nicholas was thinking about her because he e-mailed her every day.
Their first date was certainly one they won't forget: Nicholas invited Maggie to a pole-dancing competition and told her she could bring some friends. So she took a girlfriend along, not realising that it was actually a date.
'I was rather nervous and launched into an impressively boring lecture about sharks, and tried not to seem too interested in the pole dancers,' he recalled.
