Cinthya Guzman and Sébastien Parker wed in Prince Edward County
They say opposites attract, but for sociology PhD candidates Sébastien Parker and Cinthya Guzman, the similarities were impossible to ignore. “Some people are like, ‘I could never someone in the same discipline as me,’” Guzman says. “But it’s actually amazing. When I got into this relationship, it was just everything I didn’t realize that I needed.”
“I think it’s possible there were other people there, but I only had eyes for Cinthya,” Parker says. “You get that feeling that you can’t quite explain – you don’t know why you’re so attracted to a person.
The afternoon’s forecast called for near-certain showers, but when it unexpectedly shifted to bright, clear skies, Guzman suspected a kind of heavenly intervention. Just days before, the couple’s wedding planner had urged them to create a rain strategy and, after finalizing the details, Guzman felt an overwhelming sense of her beloved grandmother’s presence. “She had passed away a couple months before we got married,” she says. “It was like, 100 per cent – my grandmother is with me.