Jenny Lau and Keith Wong met during orientation seven years ago when they began studying at the University of Hong Kong.
Jenny, 26, an auditor with PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Keith, 27, a PhD student at Boston University, wed on Tuesday at the InterContinental hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui, celebrating with about 400 friends and relatives.
They didn't talk much during the orientation camp but Keith ran into Jenny a few times in the corridor of her floor in the residential hall. The floor was for girls only.
'Many of my peers kept noticing him appearing on our floor and took advantage of him by getting him to do any heavy lifting and things such as changing light bulbs,' Jenny recalled. What she didn't know was that Keith thought of her as a 'charming supermodel'.
'But I wasn't too impressed with him at the beginning because I'd heard that he was a sort of playboy,' Jenny said. 'But he turned out to be the very opposite.'
The couple have lived on different continents for five of the seven years they've been dating because Keith decided to pursue a PhD in Boston after graduating in 2006, researching regenerative medicine. It was initially hard for them to adapt.
'In the first month that he moved to Boston, I was so depressed that I cried every night while talking to him on the phone,' Jenny said.