Amr and Leila first met at Syracuse University in 2012. Initially just friends, they would chat in the halls of the Maxwell School or share a laugh on the peripheries of the many social gatherings they attended. But when meeting for coffee in 2013 while overlapping in New York City, Amr noticed Leila making a joke about her hunger, grabbing her stomach and freestyling a song in a strange accent. It was in this moment that Amr felt something for her. Neither of them knew it then, but this was the moment when their friendship ended, and something else began. It wasn't until two months before Leila had to move back to Lebanon that they finally started dating. It was in this window that they signed up for a long-distance relationship, an idea that seemed doom to fail considering that Leila wouldn't be able to return to the US for two years. They spent the next four years living in different countries, first with Amr in Egypt and Leila in Lebanon, and then separating themselves by the Atlantic when Amr moved back to the US in 2015. They visited each other as much as they could, filling in the gaps with WhatsApp messages, Skype conversations, and hundreds of flight reservations. Amr proposed to Leila in Beirut after they presented a paper together at a conference in 2016, and they started planning her move to the US for May 2017. But the immigration ban that came with the Trump presidency threatened Leila's fiancée visa. With lawyers recommending that she come to the US or risk Lebanon being added to the list of banned countries, Leila dropped everything within a weekend's time, arriving in the US in February 2017. Amr and Leila's story has been anything but orthodox. Loaded with unplanned complications, they are a couple that has always relied on the power of their love for one another to see them through. Their wedding is a celebration of this love and their ability to, time and time again, overcome whatever obstacles have stood in their way.