Catherine Bonnici and Alexander Demanuele

Wedding Date:  5th May 2007

Well, my story is a very unique and unusual one, but I know who visits this site will just fall in love with my story, or as I should say OUR STORY.

Well, it all began in 2001 April 29, I was on Maltachat chatting with maltese people as I live abroad in Canada, but both my parents are Maltese. Anyways, that's where Alexander and I met, on the chatline.  I know very unusual!!  We talked for about 2-3 months and then my father and I planned a trip to Malta in July 2001 for seven weeks.

Alexander was thrilled that I was coming for holidays, and well as for me, I had never been to Malta before, but it was definitely going to be an experience that I would truly never forget.  Two days after I arrived in Malta Alexander and I met infront of the church of St. Peter's in Birzebuggia, as that's where I was staying for those seven weeks.

It was 8:52pm Wednesday July 11, 2001, a day I will truly never forget, the day my whole life would change. I met the love of my life ALEXANDER. I was not even nervous to meet him, I felt that I knew him for years as we connected at first sight. We talked about many different things and fell in love, then that same night we kissed, it was so romantic and I felt a different feeling that I never felt before.  I guess it was love moving into my life.

Throughout those seven weeks I was in Malta, Alexander took me to many places and feasts.  It was all very different and interesting for me.  I met with his family and he met my father and some family I have in Malta.  After my holiday was over it was time for me to leave to come back to Canada to finish my last year of High School.  It was hard for me to leave Alex, but I had no choice.  I cried for at least a week.  I couldn't get used to the fact that we were not able to hold each other, kiss each other and be with each other, but eventually school started and I got used to it.  Throughout this time, we kept in touch with letters, telephone calls, chatting, e-mails and everything that could make us feel close to each other.  

Then one day in October I was thrilled, I wanted to go back to Malta for Christmas, see a

different country during that special time of year. Alexander was thrilled when he found out that I was going to be in Malta for three weeks.

I thought December would never arrive, but it did as the world is always moving. I arrived December 14, 2001.  I was so happy to see Alexander awaiting me at the airport, when I saw him I ran to him and gave him the biggest hug and kiss that I could ever imagine, and well you could all guess what his response was, LOL!!

He kissed me back of course!!!

I spent the best three weeks of my life, I learned how the Maltese do many different traditions for Christmas, and it was weird for me not to see snow on the ground for a change, but Alexander was more important than snow, he became my life.

But then again, three weeks went by and I had to leave again cause I had another six months of school left.  

When I came back this time to Canada, I was lonely, I felt like I lost a part of me. I wanted Alexander to be with me, we wanted to be with each other so badly, but we had to make it work with letters, emails, phonecalls etc... But it worked.

During those six months I spent a lot of time thinking and I decided that I wanted to move to Malta, I couldn't live without Alexander so I left my mother and father and friends, basically my life for him and I moved to Malta in June 2002.

I lived with Alexander and his family, they approved of it as they knew what type of person I was, they got to know me a lot during Christmas. It was definitely an experience of a lifetime.  I went to school and took a couple of courses.

Then in December of 2002 Alexander and I came to Canada to spend Christmas with my parents.  It was very nice for Alexander as it was his first time visiting Canada and where I live and my family, but I made him feel at home like what he did when I was in Malta.

Then once again, we had to leave, it was hard and both my parents had felt it deeply to see us go away once again, and I couldn't bare the pain in their eyes, but we had to leave. We spent another year in Malta and then the whole story changed.

I finished school and some courses, and Alexander was getting fed up of work, and I was getting fed up of not finding work, it was very difficult for me, I know how to read and write and speak in Maltese and English, but it was difficult, we both wanted to go somewhere, where we could have a better future.

So we left Malta in January of 2004. It was very hard leaving his family, we both felt a lot, but Alexander has an understanding family, thank God. We spent six months here in Canada, Alexander liked it and then we went back to Malta for four months and we got married by Law on September 11, 2004.

In November we came back to Canada and I applied with Immigration for Alexander to live here and it worked, now he is a landed immigrant both a Canadian and Maltese, like me, lol!!  We are both extremely happy. We recently moved into an apartment in Mississauga, Ontario and are planning our life together.

It's very unusual for couples to live with each other before marriage, but in my case, it's our only choice, but we are both happy and that's what counts. At the same time we are being independent and trustworthy of each other, and it gives us an advantage to see the person who we are going to be marrying in the future. I have nothing to complain about him, he is the best person in the whole wide world, we understand each other and love each other unconditionally.

Anyways, our wedding is going to be in 2007 May 5 in Malta, we decided to have it there because Alexander's family is quite large, as for mine as well, but not as much as his, plus we both wanted to make his parents happy to get married in Malta. They gave us the blessing of letting Alexander come and live in Canada, the least we could do for them is have our wedding in Malta.

My parents will be coming down for our wedding. My maid of honour Christine will be coming for our wedding too, so I'm just hoping for the best to come until our wedding day.

Well, I think my story is long enough on my end, it's a very unusual one and that's why it's unusually long as well, but I know who reads it will definitely fall in love with our story.

Thank you for taking the time in reading my story and I can't wait until May 5, 2007.

Story added on the 19th October 2005