A “whirlwind romance” between Khalid, five, and his fiance Hala, three, has resulted in an engagement and wedding preparations. The happy couple doesn’t plan to marry until the groom is 15 but has the full blessing of their families, who arranged the ceremony and bought the rings exchanged by the ‘couple.’
The boy is said to have met and fallen in love with Hala while he was holidaying with his parents in Lattakia, on Syria’s Mediterranean coast.
Khalid was supposedly lovesick on his return home to Homs – a town about 100 miles north of Damascus, the Syrian capital – and refused to go back to his nursery unless Hala joined him.
Instead of treating it as a case of premature puppy love or kindergarten role-playing, his parents called Hala’s mother to seek her opinion.
‘She said her daughter had developed similar symptoms of loneliness and the family would be very happy to see them engaged,’ Juma continued.
‘The young bride seems very genuine.’
Khalid’s family returned to Lattakia for the ceremony.
Khalid, an only child, was born after Juma had been married for 20 years.
During his wife’s ‘complicated pregnancy’ Juma vowed that if the child was a boy he would have him engaged at the age of five and ‘marry him to a woman of his choice at the age of 15′.
We wish the lovebirds a wonderful engagement and a life filled with joy, toys and ice cream.
Via: Daily Mail
