UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, January 28, 1994
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Ukranian couple met, fell madly in love at KU
William Alix / KANSAN
"American-style" wedding planned
By Roberta Johnson Kansan staff writer
Vladimir Riabokon and Nataliya Grekh, both from the Ukraine, study business at KU. They met last August in Lawrence and are getting married at 7:00 tonight in Danforth Chapel.
They lived in the Ukraine; he in Kiev,
she in Lief.
They studied in Moscow but never met.
Then they came to Kansas and fell in love.
Last summer the School of Business received a letter from Nataliya Grekh, an exchange student at a community college in Oregon who wanted to join the MBA program.
Vladimir Riabokon, Kiev, Ukraine,
graduate student, was an exchange
student who was trying to extend his
length of time at Kansas. That day he
was working for Bruce Bublitz, associate
professor of business.
"Bruce picked up the phone and put it on the microphone," Riabokon said. "She had such a tiny voice. She sounded very sweet and very scared."
Riabokon and Bublitz helped her make the necessary arrangements to come here.
"I was not very happy about it." Riabokon said. "I had to study for the GMAT, and I worked full time. Talking to her kept me up.
"I told her to send a picture as part of the application package. I never got."
Greek said she never thought of the possibility of a romance with Riabokon.
"I thought he was some guy from Moscow helping me out," she said. Riabokon picked her up at the airport when she arrived in August.
"She looked pretty exhausted," he said. "I felt sorry for her, but it wasn't give at first sight. I wish it were."
A few days later, the two were supposed to get together before he left
Riabokon said she had failed to give him a wake-up call, and he woke up three hours before his flight.
She had no idea what had happened.
"I thought he was a nice guy. I didn't know he hated me." she said.
"Nataliya had already left," he said.
She never woke me up or left me a
note. I had to run to school in 100
degree heat. Gosh, I hated her."
He had calmed down on his vacation and bought her a t-shirt.
"She was so grateful," he said. "I didn't expect it."
He asked her out soon afterwards, and a month later the couple decided to get married.
"We did not expect a romance," Bublitz said. Grekh and Riabokon had lived in separate rooms in his house before recently moving to Stouffer Place Apartments.
"At first it was no problem because they were friends," Bublitz said. "Then when I came home, they didn't want to talk to you anymore, they wanted to talk to each other. By the time they moved out they spent all their time with each other."
The couple is getting married at 7:00 tonight in Danfort Chapel. There will be a small reception afterward.
The couple will have an "American" wedding.
"When we go back we will have something Ukrainian," he said. "This is something fun — getting married in another country with our parents and friends across the ocean."
The couple will stay to finish graduate school and plans to remain a few years in the United States.
"I believe it's fate," Grek said. "Three years ago I never would have dreamed I would be in the States. When I was in Oregon, I never dreamed of being in Kansas. When I came to Kansas I never thought I would meet a guy from my native land whom I'd fall desperately in love with."
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