Ms A.L. Koh is 36, has a master's degree in business administration and works as a marketing manager in a multinational company.

When her Singaporean boyfriend of six years broke off their engagement in 2005 due to objections from his mother, she dropped the idea of marriage totally.

But last December, she walked down the aisle of a church in France and said 'I do' to a Frenchman.

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