A Wedding Tale

                          Here's a true story of a romantic wedding tale for you to enjoy and realize how powerful love is.  It doesn't matter what country, culture, religion, traditions you have, the language of love is universal and true love prevails.

This is a true story…

You’ve heard stories of persistence and how

people overcome great obstacles to achieve their

goals.  In the following true story you’ll hear

about how a poor man who was considered ugly

wins his true love’s hand in marriage.  She was

the most beautiful maiden in the village and from

a rich family. 

In Saigon, Vietnam a poor man labors hard but makes

meager wages.  He has love a maiden in the village

but she was from a rich and prominent family.

She never paid attention to him and he waited patiently

for 10 years.  She was surrounded by handsome and

wealthy suitors. But one day she got ill, with lumps in

her neck and needed to go have surgery.  All the suitors

vanished when they found out she was sick.  But this

poor man loved her and knew her from the textile

manufacturing plant where he worked.  She was the

cousin of the owner and he saw her often.  He decided

to visit her and knew that this was his chance to

prove that he loved her and was worthy of her.

He brought her soup for weeks and fed it to her

when her family wasn’t hovering nearby.  They became

friends.  When the doctor told her that the surgery

was a failure and that she may died in a few days or

a few weeks.  She was devastated.  He asked her

to marry him right then and there.  She was shocked. 

She knew that he was dirt poor and would need to

take out loans to pay for the wedding.  “I will die in a few

days and you will be paying back the money long after

I am gone.  Is that worth it to you?” She asked him.

“I don’t care. I dreamt of marrying you for so long.”

They got married.  Her family would have opposed but

not believing she would live long, they let it go.  After

over 25+ years together and two grown children I would

say that he made the right decision and persisted through

it all.

Katherine Ly

P.S. That was the story of my parents and how they happened to get married.