David Macklin, a dual citizen of Australia and Britain, said meeting his future wife, Yoriko Suzuki, in Cairns, Australia, in May 1999 was a matter of fate.
They met by coincidence. David, a guest relations officer at the hotel where Yoriko, then a Cathay Pacific flight attendant, stayed, presented himself as a Harley-Davidson-riding guide to lure her on a tour.
The Cairns-Hong Kong relationship developed fast. A month later, he proposed to her in Hong Kong.