#ColdWar #EiffelTower #Romance #EasternEurope #WeFoundLoveInThe80s Jitka and Mark met purely by chance, it was serendipity. They were both students visiting Prague and from different countries. Jitka was sitting on a bench, reading a map. Mark asked Jitka if she could speak English and she could, a little. They ended up spending 3 days together, exploring the beautiful city of Prague. Their story could be the making of a Hollywood rom-com movie, but it is far from fiction. Ji

#ArrangedMarriage #Love #WeFoundLoveInThe80s #kindness #MarriageGuidance Geeta and Subash met through family matchmakers who knew them both well. They had a traditional Indian wedding in August 1989. They share their thoughts on falling in love and staying in love after getting married. When their grown-up daughters left the family home, they realised that they needed to find each other again, so they went through marriage counselling to revisit their shared values which reki

#Halloween #WeFoundLoveInThe80s #CasteSystem #LeicesterPolytechnic #CalvinKlein Saroj and Kamlesh met while studying at Leicester Polytechnic in the early 1980s. They shared their ups and downs of married life, throwing off the shackles of outdated Indian tradition and culture of their parents. They did things differently and made their own rules together. The first memory of meeting My initial memory of seeing Kamlesh was when he was walking towards me in the underpass of th

#SouthAfrica #BestFriends #Kindness #Respect #Passion #WeFoundLoveInThe80s The story of Anne and Mark started when they were 12 years old at primary school. They were best friends throughout school and university. “She had a boyfriend and I had a girlfriend and we cried on each others shoulders when things went wrong”. One day, Mark realised that the love of his life was right in front of him, it was Anne. They found love in 1985 and got married on the 1st January 1986. "I w

#Leicester #WeFoundLoveInThe80s #AnitaBaker #SweetLove #Watford #Scotland #Laughter #Happiness #Kindness Alex and Ayan met while studying at Leicester Polytechnic in Autumn 1988. They shared some poignant discoveries about being in a mixed race relationship, the importance of kindness and laughter. Alex told us about his path to finding love with Ayan. My wife Ayan and I met in Harrow Road, just off Narborough Road in Leicester in the Autumn of 1988. We were both aged 20 and

Over the past few weeks, we have been busy filming our loved up couples featured in the 'We Found love In The 80s' short film and we're super excited to be in the thick of the editing process right now. We would have LOVED to screen the short film in a packed out auditorium with a live audience but this isn't possible right now. While we navigate our way through Covid-19 and social distancing and other entertainment restrictions, an online watch party has been organised for