In today’s edition of This City: a scenic wedding on Lake Como with a four-course Italian dinner, a couple’s race to find a new home before the birth of their daughter, and more. Visit torontolife.com for all our city coverage. |
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Christianah Okunade and Temi Ogbonnewo met in 2013, when they were both at university in Ottawa. They started dating soon afterward and went long-distance after Temi moved to Toronto for work. In 2020, Christianah relocated to Toronto, and the couple got engaged two years later. Their three-part wedding included a civil ceremony at Toronto City Hall, a 1,000-person Nigerian wedding in Lagos and a destination ceremony in Lake Como, Italy. Here’s how it all came together. |
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| | Erica and Julien met while bartending in the Distillery District in 2013. In 2014, they moved to Calgary for new career opportunities: she earned a degree in geomatics, and he landed a gig as an agent with Air Canada. In May of 2020, they returned to Toronto and rented a two-bedroom townhouse in Queen West. After discovering that Erica was pregnant, in the summer of 2022, they set a budget of $850,000 and fast-tracked their search. |
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What to see, do and read this month |
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| | How much of who you are is baked into your DNA or inherited through generations of culture clashes, migration and trauma? It’s a question that writers like E. J. Koh and Kyo Maclear have wrestled with in recent books that trace the lives of ancestors and their progeny. To this roster comes Real Americans, a new novel by Goodbye, Vitamin author Rachel Khong. The book follows a Y2K romance between a second-generation immigrant and a privileged East Coaster—and their son’s present-day search for a father he never knew. Out April 30 |
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