Anna and Morgan Lewis are about to start a new adventure after tying the knot on a Te Puke orchard yesterday.
The couple, former Otumoetai Intermediate teachers, made headlines after their public engagement at a restaurant on The Strand in July 2013, then again when violence broke out in Egypt in August 2013, killing hundreds, while the pair were mid-flight to Cairo.
The couple stayed on in Egypt despite the unrest that began when security forces, authorised by the new military-backed Government, cleared out two Islamist-led sit-ins demanding ousted president Mohammed Morsi be reinstated.
Speaking to the Bay of Plenty Times yesterday, Mrs Lewis said she and her husband had been planning their wedding while in Egypt, but it had been a hectic few weeks getting ready while on their school's winter break.
"Planning a wedding from so far away hasn't been so much fun but I've had a lot of help from my parents, my sister and my family," she said. "We always planned to get married here. We did talk very quickly about an island wedding but there were too many people we wanted there that wouldn't have been able to travel ... "