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"I wasn't one of those girls who dreamed about getting married… That changed with Vic" At the appointed time, a driver arrived to chauffeur her around Vancouver, stopping at various locales that had served as backdrops on their road to romance. As Vic explains: "Basically, I wanted to recreate our first date, which we'd spent eating and drinking at several different places through the city." "Vic's super romantic," Kim shares. "At one place — Joey's on West Broadway — he arranged for the hostess to hand me a card that said, 'What dessert did we have on our first date?' At another place, he arranged for the bartender to serve me the same drink we'd had there on our first date." The next stop was the Shangri-La Hotel. Kim was escorted to the top-floor suite, where Vic was waiting with a bottle of wine, flowers and a guitar. After serenading her with a song, he dropped down on one knee, pulled out an engagement ring and popped the question. When his query was met with an enthusiastic yes, Vic suggested they toast the occasion Top: Kim enjoying a little girl time over at the Latin Quarter, another of the eateries bubbly. they had visited on their first date. Feeling Middle: Vic and Kim stole a few quiet emotional, the teary-eyed bride-to-be balked, moments away from preferring to spend quality quiet time with guests before the ceremony. her new fiancé. "Vic practically had to drag Bottom left and right: me out the door," she chuckles. "Everyone says the wedding day goes Kim soon discovered the reason for his by so fast," says Kim. insistence: When she entered the Commercial "So I really tried to Drive restaurant, she was greeted by the be present during the ceremony, to pay smiling faces of family and friends, whom attention to the words Vic had secretly rounded up for a surprise being said. It was profound." engagement party. p30-35_Food of Love.indd 32 4/24/12 2:53:24 PM