Thursday, February 5, 2009
Love at first sight can be thought of as a terrible cliché. But for Marcela Telles, a Recife, Brazil, senior, meeting and falling in love with her fiancé, Elias Cabus, was just that simple.
The couple met in July 2006 when Telles was home in Brazil for winter break. Elias was in Brazil working as a DJ. Returning to Lawrence after spending an entire month falling for one another, Telles was forced to wait until the following March to see him. How was it after all that time apart? “It was as if it were the next day,” she says. The couple met up in Miami for the Ultra Music Festival. Each year, the festival showcases some of the world’s best electronic and dance music, which both Telles and Cabus love.
The couple was engaged on March 21, 2007, and will dance their way to the aisle December 27.
So there, in the middle of the festival, Elias got down on one knee and proposed.
“We didn’t have a relationship,” Telles says.“We just got engaged.”
Since then, Cabus has lived in both New York and Brazil while Telles was in Kansas going to school. When he was in the country, Telles would fly out every other weekend to see him. But finally, Telles says, Cabus decided that he needed to be closer. As of this summer, the couple lives together in Lawrence.
Looking to the future, the two Brazilians have quite a year ahead of them. Telles graduates in May and the wedding is set for December 27.
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