How’s that for a clickbait headline?
While it may sound sensational and out of the world, every word of it is true: I DID go to Bhutan for a one-week solo trip and I DID end up marrying my Bhutanese tour guide.
Ever since word got out about our romance, we’ve had many people commenting that our story was a “fairytale”, a “K-drama”, “almost like a movie”, and that we are both very lucky and are made for each other.
While I do agree that we are indeed lucky (as I will highlight reasons why) and yes, possibly made for each other because of how our attitudes, personalities and outlook on life are so similar, somehow I just don’t know where the fascination with our love story begins: Is it because it’s part of the whole narrative of how Bhutan is “mysterious” and “out of this world”, and hence marrying a Bhutanese equates to marrying into an exotic Himalayan country that’s almost unheard of and rarely travelled to?
Or is it because people rarely find love overseas and to have that love sustain over long distance, and also culminating into a marriage?
The truth is, N and I aren’t the only #OTP (one true pairing) of guide and guest. Since I've been in Bhutan, I've come to know of stories of couples who fell in love while one of them was a guide and the other a tourist.
http://www.asiaone.com/women/i-went-bhutan-holiday-and-ended-marrying-my-guide