How we met: ‘I think he’s the best-looking guy I’ve ever met’

Ashleigh, 33 and Matt, 32, met at a fancy dress party in Vancouver. They live in London with their son and three-legged cat

Matt had been living in Vancouver for a year when he was invited to a student fancy dress party in the spring of 2014. I'd moved to study for a master's degree in entomology," he says. Coming from Ohio, it was the biggest city I'd ever lived in. I'd never even ridden a city bus before." The event had a lumberjack theme, popular at Canadian house parties at the time. Everyone had to dress up in plaid and overalls, and there was a giant wooden Jenga game. You had to wear a hard hat to play," he says. When he spotted Ashleigh across the room, he couldn't resist going to say hello. I thought she looked just like Kate Bush. I'd recently discovered her music, so I went to speak to her."

Ashleigh had moved to Vancouver from Toronto to be with her boyfriend, but it wasn't working out. I had a job in a museum, but was living in a cockroach-filled apartment and had no friends. I wanted to meet new people," she says, and an acquaintance invited her to the party. When Matt approached, she was busy trying to negotiate the party playlist with another guest. I used to have a student radio show and was really into music," she says. They talked for a while before Matt got the courage to tell her she looked like Kate Bush. People have actually said that about me before," she says.