A mystical marriage in Peru and an official ceremony in Florida. Olivia Newton-John and John Easterling met 15 years ago — but it was only last year, on a trip to Peru, that they fell in love. Now, the couple has secretly married on a mountain top, writes Sharon Krum.
In Peru, there are some mythical places that are keepers of both secrets and stories. One of the most beautiful is a mountain top just outside the city of Cuzco, held sacred by the Incas as a place of love and new beginnings. It was here Olivia Newton-John and John Easterling sat one day last year, talking about John’s plans for the future. What, at first, was left unsaid was that days before, while travelling through Peru, they had fallen in love.
"We had been together not even a week and John was telling me he sat there every year and made his resolutions,” remembers Olivia. "He was talking about his plans and I said, 'Can I be part of those plans?' And we started talking about life together. It felt right."
One year later, on June 21, telling not a soul, Olivia, 59, wearing a traditional matrimonial alpaca shawl, and John, 56, returned to the mountain top to marry at sunrise in a traditional Quechuan (the way of the Inca) ceremony. "It was the winter solstice," says John. "There was frost on the ground, a bright sun was coming out, it was a beautiful ceremony."
Yet it wouldn't be the only one. Nine days later, they secretly married again
in Florida, where John lives, making their union legal in the US. "It was really lovely,"says Olivia of the sunrise beach ceremony. "I'm wondering why everyone doesn't do two," she says, smiling. As in Peru, they exchanged rings ¡ Olivia and John had designed a platinum band with two intersecting uncut diamonds.
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