This is what we call young love!
You aren’t Australian if you don’t remember the song lyrics to Qantas’ I Still Call Australia Home. Now that we’ve got you, two of the adorable children from the choir have gotten hitched!
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18 years later, Melbourne couple Elysia Simons and Paul Van Der Toorren celebrated their love in an outdoor ceremony inspired by the commercial.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=w8ssRPqx3PM
The advert, responsible for this real-life romance, symbolically pushed Paul to propose at it’s filming location occurring at Uluru; the place they first met as children. How touching!
Elysia was just 9 when she met Paul who both were members of the Australian Girls Choir and National Boys Choir in 1999.
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“We saw each other a few times after at choir events but being nine-year-olds in an age where there was no Instagram, Facebook or mobile phones, it didn’t even cross our minds to exchange details.”
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This is simply adorable – we always LOVE a good love story!