“We got to the uncle’s house, and he said: ‘Uncle, meet the woman I want to marry,’” Ijeoma recalled. “When I saw him for the first time, I definitely found him attractive, but what I didn’t know how serious he was about marrying me. It was after we met the uncle and his wife, that I realized that this could actually happen, and I wanted it.”
On the same day, they went to Sophya’s elder brother to give his blessing, because her father had passed away and they were engaged only four days. They waited four days only to find out it they were medically compatible so, on January 6, 2018, this beautiful couple became husband and wife in a traditional Igbo ceremony.
