Local Love – Jennifer and Rick

WHITE sandy beaches, thatch huts, tall palms…

A blistering Fijian sun overlooked Jennifer Day and Rick Opperman as they frolicked in the tropical water.

Jenn stood for a moment in Savala island’s crystal-clear shallows with their two-year-old son, Jett.

She turned to find Rick on one knee, proposing.

Jen had nowhere to run.

 

HOW THEY MET
It must have been fate.

Rick and Jenn were both living at Waurn Ponds when they to bumping into each other in 2006 at the local pub.

“We just got talking and that was it,” Jen says.

“We’ve been together ever since.”

 

Read the full story in the latest Geelong Coast Magazine – out now.