Veronica and Olufemi Odeka Celebrate 10th Wedding Anniversary
Why their union deserves to be celebrated
This minute, gaiety and bliss pervade the hearts and home of Olufemi and Veronica Odeka. But it is not the bliss of animals that lies in this, that, on their lower level, it is the bliss of a man and his wife of 10 years. It was celebrations galore in the home of the Odekas some weeks ago. Femi and his beautiful wife celebrated their 10th year wedding anniversary in the presence of close families and friends. Theirs is a relationship seemingly made in heaven and consummated here on earth.
Femi is head over heels in love with Veronica 10 years after his heart skipped to the sweet, soft drift of her smile. Femi and Veronica’s story reads like a dreamy exposition to extraordinary verses of love. Rather than dwell on familiar intrigues and alien realities that render human passion a shoddy and infantile enterprise in the annals of mortal romance, the story of their love becomes the reference point for aspiring romantics.
Their love story is best told in a more substantive format and literary forum hence this only represents a cursory glance at the genesis of their love. That the duo started out as friends and cautious romantics is a reality known to their loved ones: friends, family particularly. According to Femi, loving Veronica is both enlightening and invigorating; it reveals to him daily, his immense and unpredictable capacity for compassion and high affection. Living with Veronica is equally liberating; it unearths to him daily the subtlety and clamorousness, and unrivalled ethereality of her love. The longer his stay with her, the deeper and more confounding his capacity to love her and yearn for her love. No doubt, Veronica could be enchantingly sweet. When she talks, her voice wafts like rose-fragrance waltzing in the wind. In such blissful moment, she metamorphoses into a silhouette of delightful colours captivating everyone in the path of her charm, like an old minstrel delightfully pawing at her mandolin.
But she is no minstrel neither does she feverishly paw at the strings of any mandolin; all she has is her charm and her smile – which makes her a woman, mother and wife to die for. Not a few people were amazed recently at the celebrants’ resilience and maturity that saw them through 10 years of wedlock – even as many other celebrity marriages had crumbled within the shortest spells of matrimony. The couple attributed their marital success to an enduring love and friendship and the ability to look every issue in the eye and tackle it with tact, strengthened by an overwhelming bid to resolve it.