The night Henry Leung fell for Rita Ng on the college party bus
It was an attraction at first sight that finally saw the pair tie the knot with a lavish wedding
Henry Leung, grandson of the Cantonese opera performer and TVB actor Leung Sing-bor, tied the knot with his long-time girlfriend Rita Ng earlier this month in the ballroom of the Kowloon Shangri-La hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui.
The ceremony was an East-meets-West affair.
Excerpts from traditional Cantonese operas were played as guests arrived at the banquet, and Canto-pop star Jonathan Wong, a family friend, serenaded the couple on stage.
A goodwill suckling pig dish was presented to every table. Almost 500 guests turned out, including Cantonese opera legend Pak Suet-sin, film producer Chin Kwok-wai, actress Calinda Chan and the chairman of the cosmetics retail chain Sa Sa, Simon Kwok Siu-ming.
Henry, who works in finance, and Rita, a pharmacist, met ten years ago ago at college in Nottingham, England. Henry can still recall it vividly. "Rita was sitting next to me on the double-decker bus shuttling us to a freshman's party. I found her cute and was attracted to her at first sight," he said. A little shy, Henry tried to chat her up, and was surprised to learn Rita was also from Hong Kong.
"We started to converse in Cantonese. It's funny, as no one else on the bus could understand what we were talking about," he said, laughing.