Valentine’s Day: Love blossoms at Expo 2020 Dubai

Valentine’s Day: Love blossoms at Expo 2020 Dubai

A Lithuanian-Italian couple share how the iconic event being held in the city brought them together.

Published: Sun 13 Feb 2022, 5:28 PM Last updated: Sun 13 Feb 2022, 5:55 PM

She is Lithuanian, and he is from Italy. She is a specialist in cultural policy and management, and he is a journalist turned communication expert.

The two meet in Dubai, and they fall in love. They are set to be married soon. What sets this love story apart is that it blossomed on the sidelines of an iconic event being held in UAE, Expo 2020 Dubai.

Thirty-two-year-old Austeja Brasiunaite met her soon-to-be husband Cristian Lanzanova, 40, during the 2019 International Participants Meetings of Expo 2020 Dubai.

“We met during the preparation for Expo 2020 Dubai in one of the International Participants Meetings (IPM). The meeting took place at the beautiful Madinat Jumeirah. Cristian knew my colleague and boss, and he came over to talk to them, and that is when we got introduced,” Brasiunaite told City Times.

Lanzanova says: “My life changed in November 2019.”

There is a good chance that journalists covering Expo 2020 Dubai would have interacted with the ever-smiling and always helpful Lanzanova. He is a director of a Milan headquartered communications agency