It’s gonna be a white wedding for Andrea Fonseka.

The former Malaysian beauty queen is set to wed her lawyer boyfriend of two years, Paul Dewar, at the Assumption Church in Petaling Jaya this Friday.

"I’m a traditional Catholic girl," says the blushing bride-to-be.

"I believe in the whole white wedding-in-church deal - right down to parental approval."

The 26-year-old met her prince charming while nursing a broken heart in Perth in 2008.

"I met him through a mutual friend in a club in Perth 12 hours after I broke up with my ex," she cracks up.

Interestingly, Paul was clueless about Andrea. Nobody told him that she was a famous girl from Malaysia.

Even if they did, her fame wouldn't bother him a tad, he says.

"I had been working particularly hard on that day when a close friend of mine dragged me out of the office to the club that we like to hang out at," recollects the 39-year-old.

"There was Andrea, looking exceptionally beautiful and hanging out with a friend of ours. She told me she was in Perth for a holiday and I took it as she was a tourist."

So the ruggedly good-looking lawyer, who hails from Perth, extended his Australian hospitality.

"We couldn’t stop talking," Andrea bursts out laughing.

"We felt really comfortable around each other. It’s funny how things happen and you don’t really think about it at the time. We spent a short weekend getting to know each other and I remember giving him my email address when he sweetly drove me to the airport."

" Well, I got off the plane in Singapore less than six hours later and there was an email from him."

But love bug did not bite them until they've used Skype for three months.

"No, it wasn’t love at first sight," Andrea says, flashing her mega-watt smile.

"I only realized that I wanted to see more of Paul after I got back to Singapore for my final semester in law school."

Summoned by the power of love, she flew back to Perth to visit him and he made a follow-up trip to Singapore to see her.

It was in Singapore that Paul realised how glamorous his girlfriend was. The cameras loved Andrea and heads turned when they walked about, holding hands.

"What I love most about Paul is that he didn’t treat me any differently after he knew who I was," Fonseka opines.

"To him, I’m just a girl that he loves who happens to be in a more glamorous profession than his."

Flash forward to three months and he was down on his knees, asking for her hand in marriage - not once, but three times!

"He first proposed before he met my parents. After he got their approval, he proposed once again on a romantic trishaw ride in Singapore.” (And made her cry)

"It made me realize how he’s been there for me and that’s love right? Unmitigated support, someone who cares enough for you to let you be, well, you."

But the mother of all proposals came when they went to Paris for a holiday and climbed the top of the Eiffel Tower.

"We got to the top and he asked me for the engagement ring back and I was all like, ‘Hey, what’s going on?’ Then he got down on one knee, and asked me for my hand in marriage."

The rest, as they say, appears to be a match made in heaven.