10. Tailor living in Canada for just 4 days saves wedding
When the zipper on Jo Du’s wedding dress broke just hours before her ceremony, her wedding photographer Lindsay Coulter suggested asking the neighbour next door for a pair of pliers. When a bridesmaid who was dispatched for the task returned, she had something better. David Hobson, the neighbour she approached, had taken in a family of Syrian refugees four days earlier. The father, Ibrahim Halil Dudu, had worked as a tailor in Aleppo for 28 years and had a complete sewing kit. Within a few minutes Halil Dudu fixed the zipper.
“I was so excited and so happy,” Halil Dudu said through a translator. “I like to help Canadian people from my heart.”
Ibrahim Halil Dudu, a tailor who had recently arrived in Canada as a refugee, fixes Jo Du's wedding dress. The wedding was on Sunday Sept. 25, 2016. Dudu had arrived four days earlier. (Lindsay Coulter Photography)