Anniversary at Kalapathar with 'Nepal is safe' message

How do you celebrate marriage anniversary? Decorate your bedrooms, blow up balloons, cut cakes, go on a breakfast, lunch or dinner date, wear your favorite dress, throw party, plan traveling to different places and take pictures fro memories. These are all what we do. But for David Richardson andJessica Richardson who are based in California, United States and are currently working at Mauritius, planning for making their anniversary unique is a tough task.

As people say that marriages are made in heaven, this couple wants to do something different, unique and heavenly as each year passes. They decided to come to Nepal in November back in January to celebrate theri fifth anniversary as this is the best time to visit Nepal though their anniversary on September 18. They planned to celebrate their anniversary at Kalapathar (5644m), feel the Everest (which they say is a part of heaven) and at all the UNESCO listed heritage sites in Kathmandu Valley as far as possible.

"Yes! What we dreamt has been materialized. Despite of the earthquake in April and the problems caused due to economic blockade, our dream came true and we didn't find any difficulties celebrating our anniversary," said Jessica after accomplishing their dream anniversary and having a photo shoot on their bridal wears at all the places.

Jessica added the only problem to them was fitting on the same bridal attire for the last 5 years. "It was indeed a challenge for us," added David.

The couple said that they are highly inspired by the incredible warmth of the people here, their patience shown at the gasoline lines, their resilience and friendly behavior and then they fell in love with the mountains.

This couple who celebrated their first to fifth anniversary in Salzburg, Brussels, Rome Mauritius and Kathamndu Valley and Kalapathar respectively said that now it's hard for them to beat their unique, memorable and most expensive anniversary in Nepal.

"We were googling if anybody has celebrated their anniversary on bridal attire at Kalapathar but we failed to find out and hence we also feel that we have set a record on this," David and Jessica said in a common voice.

"We are going back today, with a message that Nepal is safe, secure and beautiful as before despite of all the problems it is facing. Hey , travelers do visit this beautiful country now as there are less tourist in many mountains and you can enjoy a lot", said David and Jessica last week.