When Greg Moore was planning his road trip of a lifetime, he never imagined it would also lead to the love of his life.

“I knew in my heart something big would come of the trip,” says Moore, 43, a quadriplegic who refuses to let his wheelchair get in the way of his adventurous spirit.

“I just had no idea that it would be to fall in love and get married. I didn’t see that coming at all.”

But that’s what happened on Saturday, when he and Keri Cameron, 29, said their vows surrounded by family in the backyard of the Kitchener home where Moore has lived for 12 years.

“It was awesome, it was perfect,” the groom said Tuesday, still basking in the post-wedding glow. The couple wrote their own vows for the 15-minute ceremony, which was presided over by a licensed officiant and sealed with a kiss.

“Actually, we cheated and kissed a little during the ceremony,” says Moore.

And to think that it’s all because of Kijiji, the popular buy-and-sell website that became an unlikely matchmaker for the pair.

The love story starts less than a year ago, before Moore’s two-month trek to Los Angeles and back last fall, which the Star followed. In order to go, he needed to find a companion or two to drive his customized van and help with his personal care. So he posted a 550-word ad on kijiji.ca that opened with the question “Do you have the ‘road trip gene?’ ” and offered to pay for anyone willing to come.

The ad was so quirky and entertaining it quickly generated thousands of hits and even a few headlines.

His stated goals included wrangling a buffalo, seeing every kitschy small-town attraction, and maybe riding in a helicopter or kayak.

It quickly caught the eye of Brampton sisters Amy and Keri Cameron. They were among the several dozen to respond and soon met Moore in person.

In the end, Amy, a teacher, accompanied Moore, along with another Kitchener man. Keri couldn’t. She had her hands full working on her PhD in social geography at McMaster University. She also had a boyfriend.

But somewhere deep down a spark had been lit and was beginning to smoulder. Keri was among the Ontario friends who visited the travelling trio after they had arrived in California.

After Christmas, they all went to Florida. Back in Kitchener a couple of weeks later, Moore and Cameron they had their first date. He said “I love you” immediately. She said it back the next day.

On June 7, he proposed, with his usual twist of humour.

“You better not be kidding!” Cameron responded. Then she said yes.

“I was very happy,” recalls Moore. “I might have cried a little.”

The wedding was just the way they wanted it — surrounded by 24 people who know and love them best, and full of laughter.

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Amy was the maid of honour. Moore’s best man was the 16-year-old son of a previous partner, whom he thinks of as his own.

After the ceremony, they attached cans and a Just Married sign to the back of Moore’s wheelchair and paraded through the park in the sunshine.

“People were yelling congratulations and clapping,” laughs Cameron. “It was nice because we both like attention.”

Then they went home for a formal sit-down dinner that included the couple’s favourite tomato salad, chicken and salmon and two lavish cakes.

A sense of humour isn’t the only thing the two have in common.

“We both have huge ambition about changing the world as far as accessibility and equality, and we want to do big things with our lives,” says Moore, who was paralyzed in a motorcycle accident at age 18.

Part of Cameron’s postgraduate studies focus on disability issues.

They hope to take a real honeymoon to Hawaii next winter. But in the meantime, their summer getaway will be to the family cottage on Lake Huron.

Last fall during his 17,000-kilometre road trip, Moore did get to see the world’s biggest ball of twine in Kansas, herds of elk in Yellowstone National Park and glorious sunsets over the Pacific. But he never did get to wrangle that buffalo or gaze down from a helicopter.

He may have to give up the buffalo dream, but guess what? He’s tracked down a wheelchair-accessible helicopter in Hawaii.

“I can take that helicopter ride with Keri now.”

And oh, about that “road trip gene” question that started it all? Nearly a year after Cameron first read the query, she’s happy to report the answer to that question is also “Yes.”