Hong Kong couples celebrate Valentine’s Day with trips or weddings but one retired widower shows his love every day
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Retired Hong Kong civil servant Ben Kwok Sam-chuen does not wait for Valentine’s Day to show his wife of seven years how lucky he feels to have her – he reads his wedding vows to her every night.
Kwok, 82, lost his first wife to illness in 2013 and had no intention of falling in love again until he met Pauline Wong Chi-yan, 69. They married in 2016, and the couple has been doing their vow-reading ritual since then.
“Reading the wedding vows to her is a way to show her I will always be there for her as a husband because she is a blessing to my life. I will keep doing it every day,” Kwok told the Post.
Wong, a retired teacher, said: “He lives up to his promise to love and respect me no matter what. He still does.”
Not until the couple met at a retreat organised by the St Stephen Church in Kwai Fong did they realise they had been at the same dioceses for decades.
