Meet Puja and Jai
Jai and I met on Hinge on July eleventh, 2023, and precisely 365 days later—on July eleventh, 2024—we tied the knot. Even supposing it used to be purely coincidental, the alignment of those dates, with a slightly of auspiciousness, made it really feel like future. Right through our six months of courting, we discovered we no longer simplest lived in the similar space but additionally had few mutual buddies. Past shared values, pursuits, and a love for meals, track, and journey sports activities (we even went skydiving in South Africa on our honeymoon), the humanities become “our factor.” Jai embraced my pastime for jazz live shows and artwork displays, all the time attending them with me enthusiastically.
Our romance, regardless that hush-hush to start with, progressively become identified—my circle of relatives knew instantly, whilst his stuck on towards the tip of 2023. After assembly every different’s oldsters and buddies, it become transparent that we have been intended to be. Jai started hinting at a suggestion, and I felt one thing brewing as I ready to wait Paris Haute Couture Week in January 2024. Jai deliberate to sign up for me in Paris all the way through a stopover from a piece travel in Chile.
Even supposing I assumed I had pieced in combination the clues, the instant nonetheless felt like magic. On January nineteenth, 2024, Jai invited me to a marvel dinner at my favourite lodge on the planet—The Ritz in Position Vendôme. After giving him a excursion of one of the vital salons the place I had received an award in 2022 (a spot that holds deep which means for me), we dined, reminiscing about our grandfathers as a pianist performed within the background. As we strolled in the course of the lodge hall in a while, Jai stopped, and I knew this used to be the instant.
He knelt by way of my favourite staircase and recited a heartfelt letter he had written in Chile, asking me to marry him. I whispered, “Oui.” What Jai didn’t know used to be {that a} proposal in Paris were a dream of mine in my twenties—one thing I had lengthy forgotten, simplest to have it come true in probably the most sudden method, reminding me that the universe all the time listens.
We returned house and celebrated our engagement with an intimate rite atop the terrace of my construction on Carmichael Street, surrounded by way of circle of relatives and family members, because the solar set superbly over Bombay.
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From The Bride:
The marriage happened on eleventh July, 2024. It needed to be about us, it needed to be about Jai and I. We felt that we would have liked to honour our Marwari and Gujarati traditions however make our personal as smartly. A mehendi, wedding ceremony and cocktail it will be, all excluding the cocktail, it would not be what one had in the past observed prior to as it used to be conceptualised in my thoughts lengthy prior to I had met Jai. Even supposing at that time it used to be only a musing of what an artwork comparable wedding ceremony tournament might be like. Ranging from our Save The Date which used to be a Claude Monet encouraged Lillies portray become an invitation to the formal invite which drew inspiration from Claude Monet’s Lilies and color palette, whole with quotes from Marc Chagall – we have been positive that it used to be a window into our wedding ceremony and what our intimate wedding ceremony’s visitors would enjoy in particular person. 3 days of revelry peppered with smaller precursory occasions, we knew our wedding ceremony could be unique. An Indo-Sicilian themed mehendi, a French Jardin encouraged wedding ceremony with a Night time At The Museum themed cocktail ensued.
Jai ensured that I were given the marriage that I had all the time sought after and dreamt of, he totally got here up with the theory of taking inspiration from Jardin du Luxembourg (my favorite and most lovely lawn in Paris) for our Mandap and wedding ceremony decor, all the way down to the fountain I had proven him to be my meditational spot. On the wedding ceremony, we sat surrounded by way of floral fountains towards a backdrop of a antique French cast-iron grill, particularly constructed for the mandap with an aisle that used to be covered with tall flowering bushes to copy the Jardin. I used to be walked to the aisle by way of my brother while in Tarun Tahiliani (a dream couture dressmaker of mine) and Birdichand jewels, blended with heirloom items. With the most important smile on my face, I walked against my eternally and a beaming Jai.
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We picked The Ingenious Corporate and Eshant Raju Images to helm the execution of our concepts (amongst a village that helped us plan) and seize the marriage throughout Taj Mahal Palace Lodge, IFBE at Ballard Property and Imara at Racecourse.
Distributors: Venues: Taj Mahal Palace Lodge, IFBE at Ballard Property and Imara at Racecourse | Make-up Artist: Meraki by way of Ritika | Wedding ceremony Making plans: The Ingenious Corporate | Images: Eshant Raju | Bridal Outfits: Tarun Tahiliani , Alpana Neeraj, Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla | Mehendi Artist: Bridal Mehndi Queen | Groomwear: Bohame Legit | Bridal Jewelry: Birdhichand Jewelry