In December, Flairpresented some of the hottest couples on the island's social landscape. In that issue we also told the story of how super hurdler Brigitte Foster-Hylton met her banker hubby, NCB's Patrick Hylton.

Readers just loved their story and requested that we tell more. Well, being the romantic set we are, the team at Flair thought the most fitting time to give you some more would be in our Valentine's Day edition, so here we go. We hope these stories bring back memories of how you met your mate.

Doubt thou the stars are fire; doubt that the sun doth move; doubt truth to be a liar; but never doubt I love you. I love thee, I love but thee with a love that shall not die. Till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old.

Joey and Asha Issa

Asha and Joey Issa. - Contributed

Like some of our other couples, their journey has not been a smooth one, but all's well that ends well.

Joey and Asha were introduced by a mutual friend in 1994 while attending a wedding.

"I was told he asked who I was and my friend made the introduction," Asha tells Flair.

But Asha was not immediately wooed by Joey, and went back to her circle of friends.

Persistent, however, Joey asked Asha to go out with him after the wedding.

"I remember my cousin who was with me telling him, 'if you want to meet her, you have to have a shot (a drink)', and he had a shot of tequila," Asha said, smiling at the memory.

Joey complied and was invited to join the group.

He later revealed that he did not drink alcoholic beverages and that he had only done it so he could spend time with his future wife.

Still, Asha wasn't sure of him. Later, he pursued her with several phone calls before she finally agreed to go out with him. After dinner one night at a restaurant in Ocho Rios, the two started dating.

A few years later, the lovely couple parted, but one fateful day four years later, they ran into each other in London en route to Jamaica. The two conversed for awhile and sparks flew again. One year later, they were engaged, and the rest is, as they say, history.

Trevor and Claudine Heaven

Trevor and Claudine Heaven. - Contributed

A chance meeting 13 years ago brought this lovely couple together.

"It was the summer of 1993 and I was taking some students to a camp in Hanover. We stopped at his gas station and I went in to buy Kit- Kat and a friend introduced us," Claudine reveals.

She never thought of him after that. Some time later, another chance meeting occurred when Mr. Heaven came into Kingston for a meeting at the office Claudine happened to be working at the time.

"I didn't remember him, I really didn't remember that we had met before, but eventually I caught up," Claudine said.

Two weeks later, as fate would have it, they bumped into each other at Devon House.

Both exchanged numbers after a long chat. Trevor pursued Claudine, but she refused to give in - at least for two months until he won her over with his charm.

A first date was arranged, but Trevor was a 'no-show'. Two days later, he turned up at her office again, dinner followed, and happily ever after began.

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly by contemned.

- Songs of Solomon 8: 7

Lascelles and Eileen Chin

Lasco Group mogul Lascelles Chin lassoes his wife Eileen with a sultry smoocher to ring in 2006. - Winston Sill/Freelance Photographer

Lascelles Chin first met his wife Eileen, a medical doctor, in 1997 at a medical conference in Havana, Cuba. Needless to say, sparks flew, and two months later they enjoyed their first date.

"We are in love!" heralds Lascelles, as he dotes on the woman he describes as "beautiful, extremely intelligent and fun- loving with a warm personality." Eileen shares the same affection noting, "My husband is the most caring person I have ever met."

But what is the glue that holds this power couple together?

"We have a lot of things in common, such as challenge and commitment. And as we believe in our relationship, we are very supportive of each other and communicate well," explains Lascelles.

He continues, "If one of us has a problem, it becomes ours and together we try to find solutions, so that it does not affect the relationship or the family."

This formula has worked well for them for the past nine years they've been together, eight of them in marriage.

Their union has thus far produced two children - David and Richard - and the Chins value their family time, as they love spending time with their children. Still, they find opportunities to spend quality time alone, sometimes attending parties, going dancing, or going out for dinner.

Roses are red violets are blue sugar is sweet but not as sweet as you.

Gerard and Rosemarie Ivey have been married for the past seven years. - contributed

Sacha Walters, Staff Reporter

"I just have to get that man," Rosemarie Ivey said was what went through her mind when she first saw her husband of seven years, Gerard Ivey.

While travelling in a golf cart on the premises of Half Moon Rose Hall resort, where she worked, she spotted him and was intrigued.

"...That sexy walk, he just has this sexy walk," said Mrs. Ivey, now regional director of sales for MiPhone.

She rushed back to her office where she told her co-workers and found out he was a new employee. Years later she heard that workers from his office told him they couldn't wait for them to meet because they were the perfect match.

Neither remembered the day they were formally introduced, but they got to know each other through their work at the hotel.

That connection

"It wasn't a love-at-first-sight thing," Mr. Ivey, now financial controller of Franklyn D. Resorts and FDR Pebbles said, "... but we felt a connection," he added. He eventually asked her out on their first date to a seafood restaurant in Montego Bay.

"It was great," the couple said as they had many things in common, their love of seafood and music being two of them.

On another occasion they met up at a colleague's birthday party and once again hit it off.

Too difficult

Mrs. Ivey admitted she gave him a hard time although she was interested. "I wanted him to go all-out," she said. She remembers once he asked her, "Who the hell do you think you are?" Because she was being so difficult.

"I would call his department even when I didn't want anything, just to hear his voice," Mrs. Ivey admitted.

When Mr. Ivey left the resort they kept in touch and that was made easier because they shared the same Pentecostal church denomination.

Years after getting together, the couple are now happily married, and are proud parents of four-year-old twin boys.

Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks

-Songs of Solomon 4: 3

Managing director of Barnett Estate Limited, Mark Kerr-Jarrett and wife Paula. - Photo by Noel Thompson

Sacha Walters, Staff Reporter

It was an arranged marriage, Paula Kerr Jarrett often says in jest, about her relationship with her husband Mark because their families were instrumental in their meeting.

Mrs. Kerr-Jarrett, a lawyer, said both parents knew each other for years. While doing her master's degree in England, she met up with his parents at a health club. They invited her family to join them and their son, for New Year's eve and day in Jamaica. When they met it was magic.

Meant for each other

"We just fell in love. We both actually knew that we were meant for each other," Mrs. Kerr Jarrett said.

When she returned to England to complete her studies they kept their relationship going and got married the following December.

The couple proves that parents do know best as they have been together for 16 years and are parents of a 10-year-old boy and a seven-year-old girl.