"A strong relationship starts with two people, who are ready for sacrificing anything for one another” Much like the quote, our story didn’t begin with strong bond or love at first time but total coincidence.

I am vikas dalvi , the guy who is going to marry the best , the most beautiful and not just intelligent but emotionally intelligent woman miss Whalley .

If you are thinking this would be another lame story about two employees falling in love at work during lunch, you might be disappointed, but yes it happened at work .

I am smiling while writing this because , I used to write a lot to her when we initially started talking to each other, letters are old school but still romantic but my hand writing sucks so I chose work's social media aka Microsoft teams , lol .... fun fact , most of the corporate offices use teams for communication because it has access to the biggest GIF portfolio there is ever , yeah gifs are fun ( for those who dont know gifs , they are pictures which can move , feels magical like harry potter, yeah lol )

Back to point, I had started with Goeasy after a friend had referred me(Akshat ). I almost got hired at Cobourg but due to document issues it was not finalized. It was during Covid times and was jobless for 3 months so I was determined. I kept emailing the HR, finally spring of 2022 boom I got a call and set me up with the Regional manager, I made him smile in the interview and then joked with the manger in the second interview, and then the third interview…. Just kidding got it in the second. Now if you sighed and said when did you guys meet? You sound exactly like Kaylisha, don’t give up yet I am getting to the point.

First after I had finished probation, that was when I first met Kaylisha, she was a manager at different store in our region. Now i wonder sometime how I did not noticed her, but then I tell myself if had then I wouldn't have got my sparky moment when I first saw her. Simple woman dress in business attire, comes to me and introduced her self with a smile that could melt your heart . It was not her gesture towards me that made me interested but her gesture towards others. She was down to earth, kind towards others and she still is now. I am the kinder one in the relationship now ( lol I convinced her to let me write this part ) .

Since that moment I was in aww, we used to chat a lot talk about challenges , joke about high targets and problems and what not. The thing that got us engaged more was the love for watching anime. We found a way to have a conversation with each other through something so we can talk about it for hours and I admit that I watched shows/movies that i don’t like so that I could talk to her about them. After 6 months we finally met again after talking and sharing over 30 to 40 thousands messages (those who think this is exaggeration , please just like Rome was not build in a day, love also takes time) .

Kaylisha baked a cake on my birthday and that was how we officially met out of work for first time . Since then we shared long conversations for hours just siting in car. Our culture differences were never a problem for us to get along one of the reason being my dad showed me lot of james bond movies but point being she accepted me the way I was and I did the same.

We had flaws but we accepted them and work towards building a future for us together. Kaylisha’s family was the first task for me to conquer, everyone talk about performance stress at work, meeting your partner's family for first time was much tougher but being a smooth operator it took lot of awkward smiling and laughing at jokes I did not understand or nodding a lot but I got along with everyone they actually liked me. I was so proud of myself when I think of that moment.

Since then, we had my first Christmas, because of me we had real tree that year. We had fun game night, being a helping hand to grandpa, conversations with her brother about NASA and technology, I shared just great family moments with her family which also got us together .

Everyone would be wondering about how did he convinced his parents to marry her, lol it wasn't as difficult as it sounds they saw me happy with her and since I told them about her, it was matter of time they suggested me about proposing her but to late I already bought a ring, guess too many romantic movies to blame.

To all the readers , I will end this charade of on and off jokes saying , life is too small to doubt things be honest to yourself and you will find love, I want to thank all the family members including my family and Kaylisha’s, and all our friends - for your love and support and for accepting her and myself so we can celebrate the union of two cultures and their love .

ps: Always like the bride's story more than groom’s, for clarification of this contact married men.............hahaha :)

Ok, So I guess it’s my turn…


Serendipity, that’s the word I was describe our meeting.


Long story short, or so I will try…. Vikas and I work at the same company, I had started in Cobourg and moved to Scarborough. Vikas had applied in Cobourg and ended up in North York. We still hadn’t known each other at this time, just both happened to look in same area.


I happened to go out for a wellness check on my customer with Brian, which so happened to be close to Keele and Lawerence where we also needed to pick up some things from. Seeing as how I was already on the truck with Brian, we decided to just stop by this store. THAT is the day Vikas and I met, he seemed so shy when I had introduced myself.


We had joked for a few minutes about how we both didn’t end up in Cobourg because that life was a little too boring and slow so we ended up in Toronto area. The next few weeks everytime I called down to that store Vikas would say “Sorry, who is this again?” EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.


Eventually we started chatting via teams (Tony don’t kill me) . We realized we lived only 15 minutes from each other and that his birthday was coming up, so I had made a joke about baking him a cake to drop off.


I found myself baking this two-layer blue cake for a man I barely knew. My grandmother had asked who the boyfriend was because I was baking a cake lol. LOL I of course said just a friend, little did I know what it would turn into.


The day arrive where I go to drop off this cake…. Remember I said drop off? Yeah, that didn’t happen. I was told to come in, I was introduced to Akshat and Bhoomika which later turn out to be some of my greatest friends. Forever grateful for that night. We then have a slice of the cake, and Vikas says “If you wanted to eat, sorry we don’t have food” and of course Bhoomika yells at him and then forces us all to go for dinner.


We ended up meeting only a few days later, and talk in the car for hours on end. We probably were in the car for a solid 4 hours talking away, to the point the nosy friends of ours were peeking through the blinds at his house. LOL.


Fast forward, we have introduced our families and while everything is blended and we are learning still how to be the best partner for each other and build a life together.
Like I said at the beginning I believe it was serendipity – I think there were a lot of things that led us both to be exactly where we were at that moment in time. All paths led us to each other.


I want to thank anyone who stuck around to read both our novels to this length. Most of all, I want to thank you Vikas for being such an incredible partner, my closest friend, and supporter.