- Student; On Campus
Bo “Tony” Fan and Ling Ling Wang ’08 met three times before they spoke. After two dates, they were living together.
The graduate students had run into each other twice in one day, at a store and a friend’s apartment, but didn’t speak until two weeks later, in a driver education class. After six weeks, Fan moved in.
“We first dated online. In the conversation I recognized (she is) very honest, very nice and also responsible – and beautiful,” Fan said.
“In the online talking, I realized he should be the one,” Wang said.
The two likely would not have met back home. Wang is from Xi’an in central China, while Fan is from the Liaoning Province in the northeast.
Wang, who earned her M.S. in international business, and Fan, an M.S. in finance student, got married at Lake Massabesic in Manchester on July 10. Heather Hoffacker, who works with Fan in graduate admissions and is a justice of the peace, conducted the ceremony. The couple will have another ceremony with family in China next time they return.
“His father was so happy. When he got the pictures we sent by email, his mother told us every day his father is sitting in front of the laptop looking at the photos on the screen,” Wang said.
