Asim Ansari, a Canadian physician based in Detroit, and Sidra Khan, a product manager at FedEx, met on a dating app in 2017. They were set to be married in September 2020, but had to reschedule their wedding three times due to multiple lockdowns. Finally, they were able to tie the knot at the Sayeda Khadija Centre mosque in January. Here’s how it happened.
Sidra: Asim made the first move on Tinder. I was wearing a Blue Jays hat in my picture, and he made a not-so-original reference to it. He said, “Are you open to catching my pitch?”
Asim: I know nothing about baseball, but I am a big fan of cricket. We started chatting, and I realized that we had similar outlooks on life. Our senses of humour match she makes corny jokes, and I get her puns. I was a psychiatry intern in Detroit at the time, so we decided to go on a date while I was visiting my family in Toronto. We went for a walk at Creditview Park in Brampton and hit it off instantly.