Happy couples of all ages are enjoying an evening of romance, bubbles and live entertainment at Wagga's Civic Theatre Precinct tonight for the second Date Night event.
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Call it fate, luck or coincidence, one Wagga couple had quite the story to tell of how they came to together.
"I was living in London for ten years, originally from Sydney, and he was living in the south of England with his three children as a single parent," said 70 year old Wendy Dignand, speaking of her now husband.
Now married for 42 years, Michel Dignand reminisced on how he met his bride.
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"It's actually quite the complicated story, so my neighbours in the south were going away for a holiday to Bermuda, and they wanted Wendy to come down and look after their house and cats," the 75 year old said.
"So she did, and we ended up being basically the only people in the whole street that summer."
Mrs Dignand said their circumstances lead them to Wagga by chance.
"I was next door in the village and we got along and got married," she said.
"We married in England because Australia wouldn't let Michel bring his kids with him unless he married me, but I couldn't stay in England either because my visa was ending after I finished my university course.
"I'd been living there for ten years, you see, so after getting married we eventually came here."
It wasn't Wagga's charm that brought the newly weds to the city, though.
"When you have three children, no money and no house, you go where you can get a job and Wagga provided that for us so here we are, and it's been very good to us," she said.
