RADIO WEDDING COUPLE 'IT WAS LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT!'

After being introduced at their marriage, this couple is celebrating a decade together

- Jo Bailey

Two strangers, a wedding and thousands of Kiwis watching the ceremony on live breakfast TV. It doesn’t sound like a recipe for lasting love, but a decade, two kids and an honest marriage memoir later, Sadé and Aaron Schuurman are proof that the wildest beginnings can lead to the strongest bonds.

In September, the couple will celebrate 10 years together after being legally wed within minutes of meeting on radio station The Edge's Two Strangers And A Wedding competition.

Despite the cameras rolling, producers hovering and the pressure of a live broadcast, Sadé remembers the stress melting away as soon as she saw Aaron. "I walked down the aisle, looked into Aaron’s piercing and kind grey eyes, and it was love at first sight!" she smiles.

“Gorgeous” was Aaron's impression of Sadé. Grinning, he adds, “We had interacted on radio a few times before finally meeting in person. I already loved what I knew about her.”

Now raising their two boys, Lincoln, six, and Ashton, four, on the Gold Coast, the Schuurmans have built a life that's far from conventional, but no less committed.

They admit it hasn’t been plain sailing, tackling infidelity (which Sadé candidly addressed in her 2017 memoir So I Married A Stranger, postnatal depression, long-distance moves and the challenges of Aaron's job, which sees him regularly travelling.