Western Weddings

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Courtney Tung, BA’21

got married and bought a new house in 2025.

Parteek Smagh, MEng’ 20

recently got married.

Amber Laur, BA’03

married Derek Laur in October 2023.

Calyssa Erb, BA’15

married Zoey Kapusinski in Toronto, ON, in April 2024.

Xueli (Sherry) Wang, BMOS’1

celebrated her wedding in Sanya, China with other Western alumni in January 2024.

Hillary Miller, MLIS’18

will marry Andrew Pople in June 2024.

Reshel Perera, BSc’16, MMASc’17, MPH’19

and Jason Knapp, BSc’17, MSc’19, met through Western University during a study-abroad semester in Uganda in 2017. Jason proposed on campus in September 2021 and they were married in March 2023.

Andrea Wishart, BSc’10, MSc’14

defended her Ph.D. in August, and married Steven Denis in September 2023 in Saskatoon, SK.

Stephanie Hindley, BA’13

married the love of her life, Jake Hindley, in Mexico in May 2023.

Paramvir Vassan, MPH’14

recently was married.

Julianne Kaplan, BA’01

got engaged to Colin Duck in December 2021 during a walk at Western. They are looking forward to their wedding in July 2023.

Delaney Carvalho, BA’15

and Ben Robertson, BA’12, were purple and proud at their wedding on September 10, 2022, along with bridesmaids other King’s grads Rachel Sterling and Natasha Burtenshaw-deVries.

Alyssa Nicholls, BFA’11, BEd’12, MEd’13, BA’17

became engaged to Grant Dawson at Schloss Kronberg in Frankfurt, Germany.

Lilian Lin, MSc’17

married Scott Burton, HBA’13 in March 2022.

Lauren Pelley, BA’10, MA’11

married Adam Miller in June 2022 near Elora, Ontario.

Wendy Lopez-Pollard, BSc’00

married the love of her life in August 2022.

Jessica Wan, BMus’11

and Thomas Wong had a private wedding in August 2021 and renewed their vows with family and friends in August 2022. 

Jennifer Street, BSc’18

and Kyle Tan, BSc’18, met at Western and were married in June 2022. 

SaraVan Vaals, BA’15

married Michael Van Vaals, in April 2022.

Bhupinder Dulku, BA’14

married Harjot Bhandal, BMOS’16, in May 2022 in Hamilton, On.