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  • Canadian chef John a fell in love with Taiwan before he even stepped foot

  • outside of his home country that's because he fell in love with his

  • Taiwanese wife jasmine while ice climbing we think it's about time he's

  • visited the home country of his loved one Talan I remember we were sitting in

  • our room at home and she's like John there's this PLC said we have to enter a

  • video and she spent nine hours making the one-minute video for myself I've

  • never won anything I went to my boss and I said chef I kind of entered a contest

  • too when I come to get a trip to Taiwan and he's like haha whatever but he

  • didn't believe me one guy in Canada winning a trip to Thai why just unheard

  • of so it's one of the most special trips I've ever taken to give John an

  • unforgettable first time experience honeymoon and wedding all in one Patti

  • is gonna show John and Jasmine the romantic side of Taiwan I think I smell

  • love in the air

  • Taiwan is a beautiful and interesting island with a fascinating mix of natural

  • sights and urban landscapes make it an ideal location for a wedding photoshoot

  • and because the wedding photoshoot industry in Taiwan is already very

  • sophisticated Lee developed you get great service creative styles and trust

  • me they are experts in making the couples look like superstars so for a

  • once-in-a-lifetime experience I think Taiwan is a great choice they

  • won't let you down the popularity of traveling to Taiwan to

  • get wedding photos taken has grown in the past years among many newly weds to

  • make their memory less forever no matter if it's western-style wedding gown

  • Chinese traditional wedding gown or even Taiwanese Aboriginal metronomic costumes

  • the wedding industry in Taiwan definitely can grant the newlyweds

  • wishes professional photographers creative makeup artists and aesthetic

  • works combine to make Taiwan top choice for wedding services

  • as I was mentioning about creativity the couples were challenged for a special

  • one underwater wedding photoshoot and I

  • gotta say Taizong has everything they need first a wedding photo shoot planner

  • check second deepest pool in Asia check and third a decent underwater

  • photographer well John and Jasmine have a mission to accomplish

  • underwater wedding photography Wow yeah and we were recommended by our friend

  • Rex find you okay great good choice much underwater experience okay don't worry

  • here the dark you miss the dips are poor in Asia so the button depth is wrong 21

  • meters oh don't worry there's a 1.3 and 305 metres so again try it step by steps

  • yeah okay no no waves no nothing and they're good water temperature perfect

  • sure so just get going yeah I'm not much of a water guy so I get a little bit

  • nervous and it comes to being underwater so and the nerves are built up kind of

  • nightmare too but I'm really excited to try to conquer the fear

  • I've had some underwater modeling experience before but only like super

  • cold lakes in Canada and then trying to open your eyes you know in the cold

  • water and with my eyes already so small so it was so hard for me

  • yeah but anyways yeah it was hard but it was fun

  • I know that's why I'm in it at first I was really nervous of breathing and I'm

  • getting used to regulate in my ears and I took something getting used to

  • honestly I wasn't worried about the couple at all because I knew the

  • adventurous blood was running in their veins and it felt really good to

  • introduce my Rakhi friends to the water world to my world

  • and even better seeing them loving it so after the scuba diving we moved off to

  • the serious business which is the underwater photo shoot but we're mainly

  • here for and as for me I'm now Jasmine's personal assistant underwater checking

  • our makeup and her skirt underneath the water boys I'm

  • all right we're all suited up yeah here we are yeah you're dressed up so

  • beautifully and all your makeup is done and I see John you're a bit nervous no

  • I'm good you're good I'm ready oh I saw you praying this then yeah so we'll test

  • and try ready to get in the water again a little bit of a different way see I've

  • opened my eyes underwater a few times at the swimming pool so I'm not too worried

  • about that I'm more worried about to not being able to breathe underwater what

  • yeah I'm excited I don't know how long

  • love each other of course you do but we show that so grab her ass yeah we met

  • our photographer Yoko at the door who's super nice gave us a lot of advice

  • staying relaxed stay calm you know he was very professional told us to take a

  • little bit of scuba diving to get us used to it which was a lot of fun and

  • after that we went to the deeper part

  • well I was nervous to begin with as well because of the dress I was having

  • trouble like kicking my legs and then I got tangled several times but with all

  • the help from the rescue team and then I was getting more relaxed and then we

  • were getting better and better

  • even if you're a rough person being in the water

  • I think the most important thing that John kept so calm even if you were

  • actually really nervous is you have like this really strong mental training

  • before oh yeah definitely it's one of the things you have to have fear finding

  • damn is the mental fortitude strength in their private life it's just not my

  • forte is I sink like a rock it really helped tired it was work but it was

  • worth it yeah we're excited to see them today we went and saw that gal May

  • wetlands which is a home to a whole bunch of wind turbines giant windmills

  • and I wanted to go check it out because we have a lot back home we wanted to see

  • the similarities and then we also wanted to see the sunset but it was a little

  • bit cloudy so we didn't get too much of sunset but what we did see was these

  • birds medium and by Lucy's yes yeah and those little crabs a whole bunch of

  • little crap yeah and then one of the coolest things I've seen our walking

  • fish I've never seen them before fish that walks on the land is kind of

  • cool Wow so weird it's so cool yeah it was really really

  • cool place

  • okay what's flight which one which one Thank You Birds yeah okay so this is

  • Jasmine and we're gonna pick up his husband John and he flew all the way

  • from Canada really excited seafood

  • it's great I was really nervous to start it was my longest flight but no I'm

  • really excited I know you're really exhausted already

  • oh yeah but there's one more most important the most important thing is

  • family family you've seen mom right I have an sister and sister this time

  • it's daddy time oh yes yes that's not doesn't have me nervous at all already

  • saying more when you say daddy like I said I wasn't gonna be able to meet her

  • father for a few years and now I get to meet him the one thing I regret not

  • doing was asking him if I could marry his daughter right so I want to thank

  • them for letting it happen letting me marry her I'm very excited to see how

  • they meet and everything because they only met on skype and then they never

  • met in person so yeah it's gonna be fun

  • so yeah so welcome you to Taiwan and attending our Taiwan and first-timer we

  • have them welcome video for you yeah hey John Jasmine hi Oh Jasmine the Terran

  • hiney ho so Johnny finally made it I am sure jasmine has told you all about her

  • home country but now you're finally here and you get to see smell and taste

  • Taiwan for yourself now in addition to a lovely romantic honeymoon with your wife

  • we are also gonna give you a hundred thousand NT to use however you wish so

  • be creative now Taiwan is very famous for its wedding photography so my first

  • mission to you is to take your wife and to go and take underwater wedding photos

  • have fun and good luck that's your first mission underwater

  • wedding photography but I think you're putting this mission aside first because

  • I know you're tired from the flight in yeah three one is kuzey C does the first

  • thing that comes to mind night market and food isn't what I hear about

  • I showed them to my water world and now it's their time to show me there's John

  • and Jasmine's relationship started and was built firmly upon all sorts of

  • adventurous activities especially climbing so to know their world better

  • we moved ourselves to Xiaomei sheep which it was a river located in the

  • beautiful valleys of nantou I was about to experience an adventure requiring

  • climbing skills excitement and a passion for life with the couple's

  • ha mrs. John I often get you nice to meet

  • you

  • I took you to my world for some scuba diving and it's time for you guys to

  • take me to be warmer yeah yeah lots of equipment huh I'm excited to show Patti

  • my world too this is something I'm a little more familiar with I'm not so

  • much a deep water guy but a canyon water or a river water with that that's

  • something I can get behind get used to me I'm pretty nervous honestly but I

  • think I'll conquer and I think they're willing to help

  • here's a diagram of this hunter Network account number power boo boos oh good a

  • cuckoo home energy back to your dog time okay

  • this is fly-fishing they were experts in climbing especially John but in this

  • activity I saw their love and their caring for each other like John is

  • always behind jasmine and always asking baby are you okay I find it it's just in

  • my heart to keep her safe she's the most special woman I've ever met she accepts

  • me for me she is so happy and smiley and I don't want anything to ever happen to

  • her so I'll follow her anywhere to keep her that way we met for the very first

  • time only briefly we never talked I was ice climbing with my friend Jeff a

  • couple of cute girls walked by and I asked my friend who's that and he

  • ignored me Oh so that was it and our first real date

  • was climbing 120 meters it was a 5/8 multi bitch super fun so much fun

  • suppose me yeah and then we walked back down to the car and that's where I gave

  • her the first kiss and after that information

  • the garden for you oh it's serious if you slip you will get hurt you're not

  • gonna die but you could hurt yourself so no it's like high school

  • it's pirate victory there

  • okay

  • like a chimney baby sometimes just old

  • push hard push push yeah baby watch your foot nice work baby

  • I think Patti found herself in there she was scared but we started and then sure

  • enough she like yeah June joy that really really well I think

  • when I met Jasmine she was already an outdoor throw these does you love

  • photography and love to be outside then once we met we vote that shared

  • interests and yeah the fun really hasn't stopped

  • the second waterfall we had to swim of it to reach the waterfall then to climb

  • and you know swimming against the strong force was really really tough

  • I felt like a salmon fish swimming upon this whole thing and when I got to the

  • climbing part I had no more pretty strength so I was like I need help i

  • need help come on push push push me up

  • so much fun

  • I think it's time for lunch ah yeah burn up a lot of calories

  • yes I stood in South right so we gonna enjoy one of the most famous Taiwanese

  • delicate lunch is one of the Taiwanese delicacies instant noodles but all as

  • always they always beef up the instant noodles with like pork balls and tofu

  • smalls some really delicious vegetables it was amazing I was great

  • nothing like having it dinner with your feet in the water liter one yeah

  • okay so after lunch we're going back now right yeah okay we'll go on the same

  • track or fine down what do we do better you will see give you some more

  • excitement hey surprise normally in Canada everywhere we go we

  • have to let's say hike one couple hours three hours to get to the spot that we

  • want to climb but here like you can just park and they always right there you can

  • start the outdoor stuff and if you're an outdoor person this is a really amazing

  • spot to be so if there's so much to do here pull em up and you jump or slide

  • them yeah I got to jump like five meters or something into a little pool the wide

  • area and he can't jump too far we'll catch up to clothes it was fun he hit a

  • rock

  • nothing major he does see no snap

  • and after all the excitement I'm really happy I did quite well and they were

  • really really caring for me and after the extreme things I'm gonna take them

  • to some good news but that's hardcore up in the mountains to see one of the

  • best views in Taiwan

  • I know you guys are crazy for outdoor activities and after the waterfall

  • climbing it's a bit extreme for me so now I'm gonna take you to another place

  • but she had the adventurous feeling but okay a little drier you see that the

  • suspension up there idea you get the best view of the middle part of Taiwan

  • so let's go up when we first arrived here it was beautiful super blue sky

  • very sunny it's beautiful a lot nicer for me so this is the longest suspension

  • bridge in the highest altitude of Taiwan Service says typing led into the clouds

  • obviously there's no this suspension bridge is linking two mountains

  • this is typing mountain and over there it's Turtle Mountain and on your

  • right-hand side this is the john inflate and it's one of the most prosperous

  • areas of Taiwan you get lovely produce the fruits the vegetables and very

  • famous for tea as well and also beautiful flowers orchids and beat on

  • that scenery is totally different here mountains have trees covering them

  • tropical crazy green trees covered in spiders we have mountains covered in

  • spiders but no trees it's beautiful totally different and I'm sure you're

  • not afraid of heights don't scare you know so this is just another beautiful

  • angle of the mountain I like this one it's 300 something meters down so not so

  • high for you uh well you know longer than my rope we don't have many

  • suspension bridges where I live and if they are there I think there's one maybe

  • walk across the others have been washed away by the rivers so it was really cool

  • they can get on a big one a judgement what did you order

  • Mountain tea Ali Mountain tea don't give it a try

  • yes really really famous in Taiwan yep and since we're on Ali Mountain we have

  • a mission also connected to AB note okay you ready for your next month yeah after

  • all the adventure have a look Taiwan is a really popular travel destination for

  • couples because you'll find that there's a lot of romantic under ways so John I

  • highly recommend that you head to Ali son where you can take Jasmine to

  • explore the morning sunrise or even stargaze at night I'm sure you're gonna

  • find plenty of reasons to fall in love mm-hmm and me I will be your

  • photographer for the day so Cheers Ali Mountain yes I love to my wife how

  • meaningful it is to have the ancient woods declare your love wedding under a

  • divine tree is watched over by ancient trees as newlyweds deal their lifelong

  • commitment underneath signifying everlasting love fortune and happiness

  • but I'm quite sure the couples are already really securely tied up together

  • just like their safety nuts in the climbing gear we're now at the a leash

  • on National Forest Park and this is around like 2000 something

  • altitude high from above the sea and how are you enjoying this weather oh it's

  • beautiful this is my kind of temperature and look at my house everybody's putting

  • jackets on Taiwanese it's still kind of hot it's not seriously oh this is

  • perfect weather but we were talking about the sea of clouds you can see over

  • there it's slowly forming there's many many different kinds of

  • trees Cypress cedar Taiwan fir and maybe like hundreds of years old to go see

  • some of the oldest trees in Taiwan that's one of our missions the next one

  • and so and that's gonna be awesome and declare our love in front of these old

  • trees yeah I went there when that was a look at so you'd be nice to go with my

  • husband now right in front of us over here we're heading to this memorial

  • statue because people still cut trees down timber use so this is to kind of

  • calm the spirits down this bears up the tree so it's kind of a religious thing

  • and it started from the Japanese rules ages it's beautiful yeah and let's move

  • on over there that's the most important one the most sacred one and guess how

  • old it is under 2,000 honestly it's two thousand and three hundred and that's

  • when our ancestors were still like mites cells the aged about two thousand

  • already Cypress so this is the the old guy you guys are meeting and in front of

  • it a grandpa

  • this is where I'm useful more useful I'm gonna take some photos for you all right

  • yeah this is my first time in the sacred forest the sake of trees goes fantastic

  • really beautiful it's nice to see the memorials to the trees and that twenty

  • three hundred year old tree just kind of blew me away it was a really really big

  • okay very weird

  • look this is your room really nice room

  • what's up Japan yeah very Japanese good night Seto

  • okay guys good morning good morning it's 4:00 a.m. in the morning Jasmine how was

  • your nap last night it was good short very short but now we're in a Lee Suns

  • railway station so this railway was built originally for logging so it's

  • quite narrow quite small and why we're here this early is because we're gonna

  • see the sunrise going into the valleys for the best spot Thanks so last time I

  • was here seeing the sunrise was five years old so it's good to be back in ten

  • years

  • yeah waking up today was a little bit difficult but like you say we do wake up

  • this early to go up mountains are going climbing we call it the Alpine start so

  • if we've been known to wake up early in order to submit it before noon

  • we can lie down to shore to it Wow we took this way of train the old

  • Japanese logging trade it was really really nice super old beautiful forests

  • through the darkness and then back through the Sun

  • it was great super short door for you I have been here before a couple of times

  • but it's first time with my husband Wow so many people doing a famous you

  • nothing without my annual net oh how pic of my ass now I'm going out here to

  • pimple what do you want to try as well

  • oh okay okay we got everything this way

  • wow really nice whoa I've never seen cloud in this form Wow beautiful so this

  • is one of the best spots for the sunrise and that is now Jade the highest peak of

  • Taiwan and so this behind it and look at the clouds a lot

  • of friends

  • it's coming up so quickly

  • to study I think one of my favorite things to do is so watch the sunrise

  • with jasmine I think the Sun is bright

  • it's like too much too much too much Sun do shining I want it all in so I don't

  • okay so I'll go take the shade now in here I think looking at the sunrise is

  • it's really comforting especially when you wake up in the morning and you enjoy

  • the crisp air and being with nice people I think it's it's a good moment

  • the aborigine culture of Taiwan is a precious part of the whole culture in

  • alleys and there is a traditional Aborigine tribe called the souls and

  • arranged for the couples they can experience the traditional zou style

  • wedding which is how very very differently to what we know

  • you kill watch I guess for you yeah this is for the king and queen John and

  • Jasmine experienced some of the traditional activities such as love

  • jelly making so lovely couple in traditional costume you liking it

  • yeah how you feeling is it comfortable yeah is it comfortable really

  • comfortable so this is called I do I means love you means Jade and so for you

  • couple to accomplish this together meaning everlasting love so she'd know

  • once again I do with you think I never lit no hearts and I just see about how

  • the I need to get want young boy yoga you scrape off all the seeds or the

  • speed and then make a huge mess so by this we can see the personalities of

  • then you put it in this mesh bag and my wife and I we both need it under boiled

  • water together how my United we do I need a baby when I three to thoughtful

  • like saying oh you have to both mix it too good I do it from behind

  • a bit more horse okay I you symbolized our love by like when we make it if we

  • squeeze it too hard and then which symbolize that all probably it's pushing

  • too hard in our relationship and then we can ask squeeze too lightly as well so

  • we have to make sure it's balanced and then just like our relationship I can

  • feel the difference the water is getting more gooey yeah yeah I can feel it

  • inside the bag you can feel it getting thicker now I do because I thought my

  • tea yeah it was really really nice I just let it sit over there for a few

  • hours yeah it was really fun

  • usually in the aborigine tribe seeing worldwide

  • adulthood ceremony is very commonly seen but unlike what we know of that those

  • arranged their adulthood ceremony during the wedding ceremony just before the

  • elders approved their wedding and the whole process very easy spanking

  • drinking headpiece decorating so they have to steal the wife I think yeah so

  • that's the chaplain that's why I had to hide behind and then he went out first

  • and then trying to look for me and then I came out and then a couple of warriors

  • had to hold me down and the tribal leader had to hit me three times

  • but it was cool it was just to signify that you're growing up you're getting

  • married and you're moving on and then the rice wine powers are really cool too

  • like you have to drink us a same pace not like oh one is faster so the water

  • will come out stuff like that yeah yeah we have to drink as one it was really

  • nice

  • oh my goodness no great watch dance moves I felt like I had four legs

  • instead of two that was my most nerve-wracking part I'm not a very good

  • dancer but it was there's a lot of fun they

  • really welcomed us soon

  • all right this is what you guys made the love jelly yeah so let's give it a spin

  • like nothing like water yeah we did it was good yeah it was

  • surprisingly yeah it tasted like the honey and lemon we

  • put on it it was a lot like the Canadian jello but more delicate that's good is

  • that what you imagine I didn't know what to imagine it it's good though so John

  • this is yours for today hahaha finish it up show your love to your wife let's

  • check it off yeah and we can have it on the way right okay

  • take it and go take it away

  • Jasmine is a real sweetheart and a very thoughtful girl as well so for their

  • wedding she never really asked for anything not the ceremony not the

  • wedding photos and not even a ring but I know girls even if they don't say it

  • they have it in here or or here but John the very thoughtful and wonderful

  • husband he knew it and he's got something in his mind for quite a while

  • so what I'm doing is I'm trying to get a ring for Jasmine because I never got her

  • an engagement ring coastal wedding ring Oh

  • so I want a surprise for at the Taipei dinner with that a nice new jewelry what

  • do you guys think I think I like it I think it would look good on her I want

  • to buy that one so she does have no but I'm excited to give her the surprise and

  • it's hard hard to top it says surprise jasmine so I I'm excited should be fun

  • I can't wait to give it to her on top of Taipei 101

  • so how do you like this place it's beautiful and I know the two of you

  • after getting married your first time the Taiwan you two have been wanting to

  • have a nice gathering with the whole family yeah so I picked one of the

  • finest restaurants in Taipei we're now on the 85th floor of Taipei 101 with the

  • best view of Taipei City nice nice so you two in for fancy restaurants I am

  • stoked yeah and ready for the cherry on top the family is waiting all right

  • all right let's head in okay so Jazmin and John still remember your first

  • missions I do remember our first mission I do believe it was taking underwire

  • in photography and are you guys stoked to see the room a little bit so move

  • your site it's ready on the left

  • John and Jasmine had a romantic trip around Taiwan and so we're just gonna

  • give him a little bit of a last surprise maestro please

  • it was super special for Janet to come in and set up the engagements off

  • I saw your wedding pictures they're really really awesome yeah I love the

  • underwater ones whether it was that difficult to do it took some work and

  • how do you feel me this is your first time ever leaving Canada yeah it was

  • amazing much yeah one of the coolest experiences good okay well I have to ask

  • everybody here yeah I think we want something a little bit more romantic cuz

  • we didn't get to see it did you see it I didn't did you see it - no no no yeah we

  • were pretty alone in that yeah so I think we need to maybe reenact some sort

  • of situation

  • elbow I think in front of everybody it was so hard to keep this a secret safe

  • it's a really hard secret to keep especially having the ring in my pocket

  • for a couple days to last until tonight last but not least

  • yeah let's get the say just pretend you're not here

  • and it was so nervous doing it in front of all the family oh my heart was

  • beating like crazy and my forehead started to sweat it was very

  • nerve-wracking but I love her with all my heart time I would ask her in front

  • of a million people any time and Janet as a married woman huh and happy in

  • marriage do you have any words for the newlywed oh yeah completely the woman is

  • always right always yes always right to the device it is true happy wife happy

  • life and no other than that I think you'll have a great start you you met on

  • you know doing adventure you've explored different things together I've heard

  • you've had a very very romantic start of the marriage in fact because you took

  • care of you when you were in Canada I mean all these things are you know great

  • start for a wonderful marriage so hopefully Taiwan is your first trip

  • outside of Canada hopefully you will not be your last so we should probably not

  • stand between the two

  • their family was so welcoming so happy and everybody is so nice it was hard

  • being the foreigner who stole her daughter so it was really really

  • emotional especially dad it was important for me to thank him for

  • allowing me to marry his daughter it was really nice

  • family show

  • you

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