Leah DeFaria and Alessandro Barreca

We met working at Target together (when it was in Canada).

One night we went out for our first/last hangout before he moved to Alberta.

From that night forward we spent a lot of time texting and FaceTiming each other.

A couple of months after he moved to Alberta, he asked me to be his girlfriend and move in together.

I packed up my things and moved to Alberta – and the rest is history.

We both originally lived in Hamilton. We lived in Alberta for about five years before moving back to Ontario in 2018.

In 2020, we bought our house in Niagara-on-the-Lake and we now have three dogs and are happily married.

This year will be our 10-year anniversary together and our one-year anniversary married!