Vanessa Wong BHK’02 and Al Ezaki BHK’02

I found love at UBC. It was the summer of 2001. I was taking a few summer classes for my Human Kinetics degree when I found out there was someone in my class who shared the same aspiration to pursue further education in the prosthetics/orthotics field. A mutual friend introduced me to him. His name is Al Ezaki.

Our first date was at Second Cup in the Village, and, as people say, the rest is history. We both graduated with our Bachelors of Human Kinetics in 2002. Since then, I went on to BCIT and Al went to Ontario to pursue further education (although neither of us went into the prosthetics/orthotics field).

We have managed to maintain a long-distance relationship and in February 2006, Al proposed while I was visiting him in Toronto. We’re getting married in August 2007, with our reception at the University Golf Club. We knew we wanted to incorporate UBC somehow in our wedding as it was where we found each other and, eventually, love.