Kwok worked with Libby at Toyota City in Mapunapuna. Kwok asked if Libby knew any nice women; she told him about Leilani and arranged a group meeting. There they sat, at the Mai Tai Bar at Ala Moana Center, "trying to be coy, exchanging numbers," remembers Kwok.

"She was stunning, beautiful," he said.

Leilani, now a first-grade teacher at Kalihi Kai Elementary, remembers Libby telling her about Kwok, a guy who worked across the way, who was "her type."

"This is the one for you," Leilani recalls Libby telling her. (Libby said she doesn't remember that part.)

Still, the relationship didn't move forward right away. Leilani was hesitant. But Kwok hounded Libby for news.

Finally, Libby told Kwok she was getting out of the picture — and if he wanted to pursue a relationship with Leilani, it would be up to him to make the right moves.

So Kwok started calling. He invited her to see a play. Manoa Valley Theatre was showing "The Wash." Would she like to go? She'd never been before, but yes, she would.

They knew it was right, but she asked to take it slow.

"How slow?" he responded.

Fast-forward two years: the pair had dated, fallen in love, made plans and saw how parallel those plans were shaping up to be. They'd even picked out rings.

But Kwok wanted the proposal to be special. He asked Leilani to another play at Manoa Valley Theatre. A love story happened to be playing.

After the play, he told her to stay in her seat, because the director was going to give them a backstage tour.

As they walked through the wings of the stage, suddenly the floodlights were on and a spotlight showed the center of the stage. There, Kwok got down on bended knee and asked her to be his wife.

"The actors and actresses were taking pictures," Kwok said with a laugh.

After a full year and then some of planning, the couple married on the grounds of the Hale Koa Maile Garden in January. It was a perfect wedding, with a princess white gown, four attendants and a flower girl. He choked up when he said his vows; she choked up when they thanked their families.

She surprised him with a special serenade: Shania Twain's "From This Moment."

They even had a lion dance for good blessings.

For their honeymoon, the couple went to Las Vegas and stayed at the Venetian. And for the first time, Kwok said, they won money.

"It was a good sign," he said.

"Honeymooner's luck," she said.

And Libby, of course, was the maid of honor: "They're personalities are very similar. I thought he'd be a good match for my sister. I've never seen two people so in love."