♪ I love you like the ocean Deeper than is wide ♪
♪ I love you like the fire That burns me hard into the night ♪
♪ I love you like the tempest Raging hard against my soul ♪
♪ I love you like the storm inside I no longer control ♪
♪ I love you like the rain That's flooding streets inside my heart ♪
♪ I love you like the pain Of star-crossed lovers when they part ♪
♪ I love you like the wind That has ripped my sails apart ♪
♪ I love you like I love you Like it's written in the stars ♪
[upbeat music playing]
I want to make this wedding everything I've ever dreamed of.
[man 1] Everything around this wedding is around fantasies
and things she really likes and loves with color palettes and themes.
What makes the wedding really exciting is the level of personalization, you know?
It's something that really fits kind of our taste.
Every one of the performers, the level of detail is so distinctive.
I feel like I inhabited a Bollywood movie in real life.
It's amazing.
[woman] You know how homes and fashion are a reflection of who you are as people?
To me, weddings are the same reflection of the bride and groom.
We kind of agreed upon a certain ethos that the wedding had to imbibe.
[man 2] And we are perfectionists,
for us, it's always been getting it down to that tee.
[romantic waltz music playing]
We've been together for 11/12 years.
Eleven according to me because in the middle we broke up for a year
and 12 because he doesn't count the breakup.
But you have to define what a breakup is.
But he maintains that, "No, we hadn't really broken off."
So there's a difference of whether it's 12 or 11.
So, 12 years, short answer.
[Aman] We are from a pretty stereotypical large Punjabi joint family.
So it's my grandparents in the house and their two sons, my dad and my uncle.
I have a brother but then I have three cousins.
Five kids in the house. So, it's been quite a madhouse.
[Atul] Aman is a darling of a son, you know?
I mean… He's been a delight.
He always had that dimpled smile.
[Veena] The girl he's marrying, Divya,
she's a very beautiful person and it's such a pleasure to know her.
[Sanjay] She always treats me like a friend.
[in Hindi] There are no secrets between us.
The only thing she never told me about was Aman. [laughs]
After she'd graduated and come back from America,
I asked her if we should start looking for prospective grooms.
She said there was no need for that and then told me her story!
[in English] You know how his hands are right now
just like that, his hands were then also
and he said, "Will you go out with me?"
And then I burst out laughing. I don't know why.
And I remember Aman actually dressing up and applying perfume and everything.
"Dad, I'm going out for a date." I said, "Okay, have fun."
And I'm actually wanting to see how Aman's clothing sense changes
-once he's married. -Shut up.
Because I see him in a black T-shirt. "Didn't you wear this yesterday?"
"That was different, today is different." I'm like, "Okay."
He only wears a shirt whenever DK is involved.
[Aman] The biggest reason why I asked her out
and she still asks me, "Why did you ask me out?"
She was different from the rest,
the rest of them were always concerned about
whether their shoes were polished or not.
She was more concerned about work than on appearance,
which was something that is very common between us.
And then I genuinely thought she was really beautiful.
♪ My favorite pictures are when ♪
♪ You don't pose 'Cause you don't know ♪
♪ You're beautiful In the little things you do ♪
[Devika Narain] One of the trademarks of the modern Indian wedding
is that they're becoming very personal.
It's a reflection of who they are,
and that's amazing
because it's almost like each wedding has a personality of its own.
[Aman] There was no destination within a five to eight-hour flying radius
from Delhi or Jaipur that we didn't look at.
But you know, she always felt that this is where home is and--
It has to be in Jaipur because that's where our people are.
That's where our families are.
And Jaipur is always a great destination to come here
'cause it's such a cultural hub, it's becoming more and more vibrant.
[folk music playing]
[Narain] With Aman and Divya it's a lot about their heritage,
where they're coming from, all their memories
and it's all manifesting into their wedding,
and it's so special to find people who truly care about where they're from.
[Nikhita] Our parents who migrated to the Bay Area,
they had to create their own culture and make it feel like home wherever they were.
We landed up in an area with a lot of, we'll say Indians,
but in some ways more American, in some ways more Indian.
They'll say, they're a coconut, "Brown outside, white inside."
Etcetera, they say that.
My parents were born in India, Hyderabad. So we're Telugu.
Then they moved to the U.S. I grew up in Fremont, California.
And then I started working in the Bay Area.
I have one brother, a fraternal twin brother.
We don't look alike.
And I have two younger sisters, six years younger and they're also twins.
Mukund and Nikki, all went to the same high school.
[Mukund] So, I met Nikki at a summer camp for that online high school.
Then Karthik, my brother and her sister, Lena,
started spending time together, and started dating.
That's what I will do. I will.
Kind of obligatory, like,
"Our siblings are dating so we should hang out sometimes."
…puts broccoli on a pizza.
[Rupar] And when Lena and Karthik's wedding planning started,
that threw them together as siblings.
They were doing some dances.
[Mukund] Siblings dance is what it was called then, ironically.
When you come for dance practice, you end up getting dinner after.
Eventually it became more dinners than dance practices.
And then New Year's night, Jan 1st,
it was the night before their wedding. I go, "Is there anything you want to say?"
And he's like, "Okay, I really like you."
We filmed Lena's wedding and Karthik's wedding,
Mukund and Nikhita's brother and sister.
We also got footage of Nikhita and Mukund flirting with each other
and one of my producers had spotted them
flirting and having some sort of romance going on in the corner
and she told me, "Vishal, I think this is going to happen."
[Mukund] Doing it in the homeland,
there's a spiritual feeling you get when you're getting married here
because we still feel Indian even though we grew up in the U.S.
[Nikhita] And so when it came to choosing Chennai,
I've always been really close to my grandfather
and he unfortunately passed away a few years back.
I couldn't be there for the funeral. I have my grandmother left in Chennai.
What happens one day when my grandparents are just gone,
then what's my connection here?
I'm very happy, man.
[all laughing]
[Nikhita] So for me, coming back and doing this wedding in Chennai,
it was like feeling really connected to them and building a strong memory.
-I wish them all the best. -Thank you so much.
[Mukund] A big thing with this wedding was we're in California, always working.
So, how are you going to plan a wedding in the middle of all that?
I didn't know how Nikki would do it.
[Nikhita] I knew with my work life when I'm traveling eight months a year,
I can't do it unless I can do it on the very app that I work on.
So, I sent DreamzKrraft a message,
"You're great. I want to explore this process with you,
but you got to join Monster."
"Download the app, let's connect there and let's start a conversation."
So, Trrishant said, "I can totally vibe with you like this."
And they made it possible for me to work the way I like to.
So, she'll just get on her phone, press a button, be like…
"I don't like the flower right here, can you change that out?"
I've ten shadows.
Four helpers to help with ironing and everything.
And six F&B butlers with the family to make sure that they're eating.
Might be a little overwhelming, that many people hanging out at all times.
[Mukund] Nikki's not like the typical bride.
They never seen someone go to the level of detail that she does.
Whether it's eight to ten back and forths on the menu
or designing drinks herself and things like that.
So the final menus I sent, that's exactly what I want.
[upbeat music playing]
[Trrishant Sidhwaani] We went into every small element
from your cushion covers to your smaller coasters,
to branded welcome letters that actually went to the room.
To every aspect of it.
When a guest walks into the room,
they see this, and it makes an impression, like, "Wow, that was really sweet."
[Trrishant] So we tried to break the entire theme down into small parts
and saw how to add a little bit of Nikhita to that event as well.
-[man] The Buddha must be coming here? -The Buddha is coming here.
[Nikhita] And then we're building kind of like
an 8-foot platform for an actual Buddha statue.
The statue will sit on top and that's the Buddha-Bar feeling.
It literally already looks like the entrance
to the Temple of Doom in a way in the Indiana Jones ride.
There's going to be fire dancers who are going to dance on the stage
that we're building on the water.
When I saw what you can do in India…
You can create these beautiful sets.
It was almost like every single thing I could have
ever wanted in a marriage was ticked off.
[Divya] In the recent years, weddings have been more like a showbiz
and we wanted to steer away from that and we're going to do a wedding in Jaipur.
And yes, it's going to be a little larger than what we wanted.
But if we are doing that, we're going to give it a purpose.
[Aman] Bishangarh is like the epitome of a small village
which had this big structure next to it.
Divya was always intended… She was really hard bent on
how much can we not just source locally, but also employ locally.
[Narain] Many say, "This is how our wedding should be."
They walked in and said, "This is what we do."
"Now what can you do with this?"
There was no outline of what we should be doing or how they wanted things.
They said, "This is who we are."
"These are the things we care about and how can we incorporate these things in?"
[Divya in Hindi] Please tell me if I have to take a right
or a left from Kalpana Handmade Paper.
Should we go towards the block printing unit?
[Narain in English] Sanganer is a village outside of Jaipur.
It's known for their block prints.
And once they've printed and dyed the fabric,
they put it out to dry.
And you wanted to bring that structural aesthetic in here.
And we went and measured how many inches,
how does the fabric hang, how does it respond to breeze
and that's become such a passion project
for us to figure out how will these things come together.
Maybe we could have white, then we have a carpet print, the upward going arrow.
It's not a regular wedding structure at all.
-And if… -It's not?
[all laughing]
And it's about the detail.
We wanted the linens at Bishangarh
to be reflective of the style of Bishangarh.
It's a fort, not a palace. Things here are super simple.
[Narain] So it actually can be straight line patterns
that we're actually getting them block printed.
-I want to see human error on this. -Exactly.
[Divya] When you paint, there are imperfections,
there are small lines that are not straight,
has one little curve there.
She really takes the time to perfect everything.
So she needs everything to be of the greatest quality.
She doesn't tolerate mediocrity.
The entire time, we were figuring out what the wedding canopy looks like
and I was just like, "White, that's the color."
She made me like the concept of adding a little mustard to it.
And I was like, "Now this makes sense because mustard grows around."
[Aman] Transporting flowers, the carbon footprint of that is huge,
especially when you can achieve a similar effect with something very local.
We have a guy here, today I gave him a ring, I said…
[in Hindi] "We need 25,000 stems that are two feet long
and must have mustard flowers at their ends."
[Smriti laughs]
He said, "They'll be ready."
I'll need around 500 sheets for all my collaterals.
[in English] So yellow has been the accent color of Bishangarh.
And the way the seeds come on the paper is super nice.
And the best part is that after you use your paper
you can just put it in the soil
and you can use it as seeds for flowers to grow in your garden.
So every bit that is being used at the wedding,
there's a note at the bottom of every presentation of where it will go later.
Will the flowers go to a paper factory where they'll be recycled into paper,
whether the fabric can be used for uniforms
for the girls in the village.
We've thought about those things.
We're not an eco-friendly industry.
Just the fact that some of the materials we use
are not biodegradable for over 500 years
and how frivolously we use those materials.
But at least the fact that we're questioning them is tremendous for me.
[Divya] This employs local people, and this is just more sustainable
than giving it to a random printer
and asking them to print it on some random sheet.
There's nothing personal about it.
And the entire concept that we wanted to have
is to give that touch of us in it because it's our wedding.
It can't be like a copy-paste of someone else's wedding.
He's doing the 3D projection-mapping on the wall of the building next to us.
And we're going to do like a temple-y sort of thing right and then logo?
And then he'll black out the whole of it when we walk in
and do that, and play a certain song.
For me, I like to create experiences for all the people coming
and so everything I've gone into for design and decor and detailing
is so that it's a sensual, visual experience.
So that when a guest walks in,
they don't know everything you thought of.
I just walked through that archway and it was amazing.
They didn't know that you hit the light this way,
so the music is playing on this speaker with a lantern here
and it's all thought through.
[upbeat jazz music playing]
[Nikhita] The first one is our welcome event.
So typically in Western weddings, you do a rehearsal dinner.
This is our version of a rehearsal dinner mixed with all the things we love.
[jive music playing]
[woman] Nikki told us a little bit about her vision about a year ago.
And so I can definitely see her vision come to life.
[man] Despite all the grandeur,
you can still really connect with friends and family
and just have a really good time
and create some awesome experiences within all this.
[Nikhita] It's about making them happy so that they can then bring
nice camaraderie to the event and you can celebrate together.
[Aman] Weddings do not have to be
in that traditional zone to be called an Indian wedding.
It's a modern version of a very traditional Indian thing.
It's like it's India 2.0.
You can be Indian without having
those big boxes that you made around these functions.
[Narain] This wedding canopy is not traditional.
There's no four-pillared column thing,
they're just gonna be surrounded by friends and family
in the middle of our infinity pool, which is a big challenge for me.
[in Hindi] I need it levelled, if any tile comes loose
then it'll be you and me in the pool fixing it.
[in English] We've sat there and with the family,
measured the height of the water
and where the platform will be.
It's very interesting because, if not, it's a solo job between us internally.
Having two joints which is going… Looks like a design.
Having one joint looks weird.
The mirror that had to come is smaller than the structure.
Now we figured a way, there's attachments coming tomorrow morning.
We're running late by a proper 24 hours right now and I'm very scared.
[fire crackling]
[Anil in Hindi] There's never been a wedding like this in our family.
So much time and effort has been put into the planning.
Each item of food had a tasting session and menus have been discussed for days.
[in English] But why are we doing cold soup in winter?
[Anil in Hindi] I always thought food tastings were only
for the likes of Prime Ministers and Presidents.
[in English] I love a good French onion.
[in Hindi] They're doing everything to make this wedding perfect.
[in English] Bishangarh's vibe is very modern, it's very clean design.
So we wanted that to reflect in the furniture that we use there as well.
[in Hindi] Ever since she was a child, she wanted everything customized.
[all laugh]
We told her that you should get married now, we'll search for a suitable match.
And she even customized a groom for herself.
-Twelve years ago. -Twelve years ago.
[upbeat music playing]
[indistinct chatter]
[upbeat jazz music playing]
[in English] What I'm most excited about is that finally the occasion is happening.
[laughing]
[Atul] Twelve years in the making, it's happening now.
Friends are coming from all over and…
[Aman] And the family's excited. You can see that, right?
It's just all going to come together and converge.
-But also celebrating us. -Yeah.
I'm excited about that.
[upbeat jazz music continues]
[indistinct chatter]
[woman in Hindi] Here are the props and flowers for the function.
Let's do this quickly. What is this lace for?
[Subrah in English] They are drawn to India and to all of the things.
But it is not too Indian but it's… You know.
You're not as much replicating what is the past
but to preserve the spiritual element, but make it fun, make it entertaining.
After the welcome dinner,
you'll have this in your room and then it'll basically be like
you're going to unlock Wonderland, right?
Like Secret Garden.
[soft music playing]
♪ Birds sing this song And I hum along ♪
♪ And I think what a beautiful day ♪
[Nikhita] This is a combination of the Secret Garden.
So, flowers everywhere with Alice in Wonderland characters.
You're going to have big hats, teacups and a ton of clocks hanging from the trees
and all kinds of different flowers
with the faces of the happy, the sad, different emotions.
♪ Pick the flowers from the ground ♪
[Priti Sidhwaani] She's fond of florals.
So for her wedding I have sourced out each and every flower.
I've gone to China…
And not only flowers, for this wedding everything is custom-made.
[Nikhita] I really wanted a chance to have Cinderella's carriage come to life.
So all of us can have girly photos with it
and have that be the experience to sit down and hang out.
-[guests cheering] -[upbeat pop music playing]
♪ Let's keep this party rockin' Keep this party poppin' ♪
♪ Let the good feels unlock ♪
♪ Oh, let's go all night long With dancing shoes on ♪
♪ Nothing but good vibes in stock… ♪
[Mukund] These moments are really to be shared with everyone.
I think what brings real joy in the moment is the fact
that all our close friends from California and across the world
were able to make it, 'cause that makes the experience what it is.
♪ So turn it up ♪
♪ Yeah, we're gonna celebrate ♪
♪ You're not alone ♪
[Mukund] She has a fun energy to her, extremely confident
and I think with that comes a very free spirit
where she can speak her mind, be very authentic.
I like her drive. She's very driven.
Anything she puts her mind to, she gives 200%.
I've seen her put on experiences, it's amazing.
[music continues]
♪ Turn it up ♪
[Divya] My most favorite thing about our relationship
is the fact that we're equal
and I think that's very, very important for me
to feel valued, to feel that I am visible.
Even when the world around you doesn't make you feel that,
by the end of the day, I know he's going to make me feel that
because he knows that's super important to me.
[upbeat music playing]
I think she's taught me patience. I was super impatient.
Things had to be super quick, things had to be done now
and she's the complete opposite.
She takes her time but that's through a process till something good comes out
and this is something I've learned from her.
You have to be patient with things.
[Narain] Driving to the fort and we saw these millet fields.
I asked Aman, "Can we just cut this millet and use it?"
And he said, "We can't cut this, but we can grow it for you."
The millet and all that installation actually is coming out really nicely.
I just need a little bit of green.
[Narain] The fort in Bishangarh has two different kinds of arches.
So we've used those contradictory styles of arches in the architecture.
And so you'll find a lot of these tiny details coming in.
[woman] A part of me knows it'll get finished in time, but I can now see flaws.
So I'm just super paranoid to make sure that those flaws get fixed.
Then there's a second part of me which is walking through
bits and pieces and I'm like, "Oh, my God, it looks so pretty."
[Aman] Every Indian wedding follows
the mehendi, sangeet, turmeric ceremony, wedding, reception pattern. Right?
So we basically said,
"How do we make our versions of this that's acceptable to us?"
[guests cheering]
[jovial music playing]
[Aman] We began with the mehendi
and Divya said, "I'm not going to put mehendi."
I asked my mom and she says,
"If Divya won't put mehendi, I won't, either."
So, the whole concept became a farmers market
because it's not that traditional thing anymore.
At Bishangarh, we have huge farms
and we try and grow everything that we consume here ourselves.
So we set up the menus to reflect what was in season of the stuff that we're growing.
[Smriti] We had mehendi for the guests,
but as DK is not applying, Aman doesn't like it, I said, "I'm okay,"
but I'm really liking this, at least they're taking charge.
They know what they want and we are totally supporting them.
[woman singing Bollywood song]
[Aman] Then we moved on to the sangeet, there is someone usually performing
and then the family performs.
Okay, then do we want family performances?
At the same time, my mom, she loves to dance
so we decided, for the moms, we'll do a little bit.
So it became this new concept of just redefining what a wedding party is, right?
It became our version of that.
[song continues]
[Atul] I was just talking to Aman yesterday.
Unfortunately, mustard comes maybe a month later.
The alternate yellow flowers will take a week to procure.
So let's see how much of mustard we go with and, uh…
We'll do our best.
[Atul in Hindi] How many will these be?
Approximately 30,000.
We need the ones with flowers on the 30th.
Then it's best to cut them that morning itself.
[Atul in English] I'm a romantic at heart.
I've always liked to go into the mustard fields…
[in Hindi] and sing a very popular romantic Bollywood song.
[in English] No, we stopped the car,
went to the fields and we enacted that scene, you know.
He's running from one side and I'm running from the other side. It was--
The farmers came chasing, wondering why someone got into their fields.
[in Hindi] What's happening?
[in English] That is our story.
This story belongs to Aman and Divya.
And the whole wedding is being created also like that.
It's natural. It's real. It's Bishangarh.
[classical music playing]
[Nikhita] I think that the wedding planning industry
oftentimes is not respected enough.
It's seen as a very… An industry that's fluff,
but there's not enough respect
for the amount of labor, creativity, the production to create these sets.
[opera music playing]
[Meet] She asked for a Fabergé egg,
these Victorian artists, Victorian artworks on the walls,
lots of colonial architectural walls and drapes you'll see.
Heavy florals in deep reds and burgundies, wine colors.
[woman] Nikhita and Mukund have done an incredible job of trying to incorporate
everything that someone would want to see
in every one of the events that they have created.
It's been incredible.
[chandeliers tinkling]
[Vishal] I think bespoke weddings would mean
to create a wedding that is individual to the person that it is.
I think the positive side to it is
you'll see dancers and you'll see musicians
who get a chance to play and perform
who wouldn't get a chance to play and perform
and earn the amount they usually earn.
It creates a lot of employment,
allows them to get appreciation for their art in a space of love and family.
[Zorawar Kalra] Marriages are so essential to our culture.
They form a intrinsic aspect of our social fabric
and as a result, the food plays an incredibly important role.
So what we've done here is an incredible food map.
The whole country has been charted.
Even if you took one bite of every single dish on the menu,
you'd be full for two days.
♪ The sun goes down Day is done ♪
♪ The weekend's here Gonna have some fun ♪
♪ I gotta get ready Gotta dress up fine ♪
♪ 'Cause my baby's coming over And he's always on time ♪
♪ But that's the way I like it That's the way I like it ♪
-[Nikhita] You're coming at 8:30, right? -[woman] Yeah.
[Nikhita] Well, then shouldn't we just start the song off?
Bollywood nights and we're doing popcorn. Isn't this so cute?
-[woman] So cute. -Little popcorn buckets.
And before the sangeet they're going to get a note and a ticket
so it's like a night in Bollywood.
[Bollywood music playing]
[Nikhita] They've actually designed a bar, almost like a ticket counter.
So when people drop off their ticket, they get access to that bar menu.
Then, of course, heavy Indian food from all over India.
It's very black and white with her, you give her five options.
"I like this one. I don't like this one."
"Give me something that works in this zone."
So we started working on the options for entertainment,
seeing what bands would probably fit in this.
Decide what DJs to bring on board.
Do you want to practice right now? Yes?
[Terence Lewis] And Nikhita knew certain songs that are very close to her heart.
So she requested me to perform on those numbers.
So we've choreographed and designed a very special dedication to her.
So every detail, everything is curated.
It's going to be a full-on presentation, like a stage show.
Think of it like an award ceremony, think of it, the Oscars.
It's the works.
We literally felt like we were in a film and the drums as we walked in, royalty!
If people think coming to India is sensory overload,
they obviously weren't invited to Nikhita's wedding.
[upbeat Bollywood music playing]
I feel like I inhabited a Bollywood movie in real life.
It's amazing.
[Mukund] For me, it will be as much of a surprise as for the guests to be honest,
it'll be cool to see all of it come to life.
I have not contributed at all to the design and decor of the wedding.
My support has been, "Hey, how are things going?"
I didn't expect Rajinikanth and Anil Kapoor to be there
so you feel transported.
[guests cheering]
[Bollywood song playing]
[guests cheering]
[Nikhita] Chennai by the ocean almost gave me that feeling of my home in California
and being by the ocean,
but with the spiritual feeling of being authentic to my roots, to my grandfather,
the beaches that we used to go with him.
And so it was a perfect convergence of everything.
[Meet] Although the setting is very contemporary,
but the themes, in terms of music,
periphery artists, in terms of food, it's very traditional.
So I think it's a superb fusion
and I think it's going to be very exciting.
[birds chirping]
[Narain] Bishangarh has never had a wedding with 1,500 guests before.
And it is a logistical nightmare to pull this wedding together.
Just to figure out basics like food and movement of human beings
has been a huge sort of endeavor for them.
[Aman] The wedding's gonna go by in a flash.
You won't remember much of it 'cause you're in a different state of mind
and things are gonna go by quickly.
But what you do remember is the process
or the months that you fought or not fought,
those small things that keep coming back to you.
[Narain] My last minute stress is figuring this structure,
which is above my head, making sure it's all aligned. There's no breeze.
It's all clean and looks like it belongs here.
Not like it belongs in Sanganer or somewhere midway.
[woman vocalizing]
[man vocalizing]
[Nikhita] Beautiful.
[upbeat music playing]
♪ You're always there by my side ♪
♪ I count on you through rain and shine ♪
♪ You make me smile You make me laugh ♪
♪ It's hard to feel the hours pass ♪
♪ But you and me, we're on our way ♪
[Nikhita] When he would look at dating me, he's like, "What can I give to you?"
He never looked at what he can take from me
and that was something I recognized in him.
♪ You and me are on our way ♪
[birds chirping]
[woman in Hindi] We'll be waiting for the wedding procession.
We won't be waiting around,
we'll be dancing with the wedding procession.
[woman] Yes, we'll dance.
[in English] I just spoke to Devika, she's sent me pictures.
I'm dying to see all of the decor.
-[men laughing] -[upbeat music playing]
[all laughing]
[imperceptible]
[Divya] What I'm most afraid of is the fact
that I have to do makeup and spend three hours doing it.
That's my FOMO time, right?
How can you miss things that are happening around you?
[Aman] All the fun stuff happens between events, right?
You'll find lounges or these corners of someone's room.
You're just chilling with friends that you haven't seen in a while.
[upbeat music continues]
What the fuck are they doing? [chuckles]
[camera shutter clicks]
[Aman] The baarat traditionally is the boy's side coming
and the girl's side welcoming in their house.
Jsut the concept of these two families being so separate
was just not okay with us.
And Divya always… And we love dancing.
So we had to be together.
So our version is no one is receiving anyone,
we are just together going in a procession to celebrate and get married.
[folk music playing]
[drums playing]
[guests cheering]
[band playing upbeat music]
[Atul in Hindi] Initially, they didn't want to do the ceremony around the fire.
[in English] I said I'm cool with everything.
Come on, marriages, are they really made around a fire?
You know, marriage is made in hearts, not by these other things and…
And I could see that their hearts were set.
[soft music playing]
[priests chanting]
[guests clapping]
[Aman] We found a priest who thinks like us.
So instead of the giving away ceremony,
both sets of the parents are jointly giving us to each other.
[Sanjay] Marriage is a partnership.
It is centered around the idea of family.
That's the core, it's more than just yourself.
[Mukund] Someone you meet from a different family
that really feels like family.
You trust that you'll go through life together.
You can have arguments and disagreements,
but at the end of the day, you got each other's back
and I think that feeling is the biggest thing.
[Atul] A lot of people look at some of the things they're not prepared to do.
I look at the things that they are prepared to do.
You don't want a guy touching your feet and not meaning it,
but if he comes and hugs you,
it's probably indicating more love and feeling
than a lot of these rituals which are meaningless.
[Nikhita] I feel that we built something
where I can develop the sort of home and family culture I want,
with a person who is just so supportive but also such a free spirit himself.
[Divya] My way of showing love is not giving them gifts
or giving them surprises.
It's just letting them be,
and that's the kind of space we've made for each other.
[Aman] It's like the ultimate commitment.
It's me and her deciding to spend the rest of our lives together,
grow together, live together with someone that will be my life partner throughout.
[fireworks bursting]
[Nikhita] You can have friendships with a lot of people,
you can enjoy the company of many people.
But building a home takes a unique set of qualities
and I think, as human beings, we are all crazy.
So it's about finding the crazy that you're willing to handle.
♪ I love you like the stranger Who will never see your flaws ♪
♪ I love you like the wager I must win when all is lost ♪
♪ I love you like the knife That cut through bone and sinew ♪
♪ I love you like the scab That's the only proof of wound ♪
♪ I love you like the tears Through which I've cried myself to sleep ♪
♪ I love you like my fears Somewhere hidden deep I keep ♪
♪ I love you like the consequence I know I must reap ♪
♪ I love you like I love you ♪
♪ Like no one can but me ♪
♪ I love you like the sailor Who left home to tame the seas ♪
♪ I love you like the writer Naming things you cannot see ♪
♪ I love you like the soldier Bleeding by his flag he stood ♪
♪ I love you like the carpenter Carving beauty out of wood ♪
♪ I love you like the painter Trying hard to frame the dawn ♪
♪ I love you like the sinner Claiming he was but a pawn ♪
♪ I love you like the saint Who kept faith when all was gone ♪
♪ I love you like I love you Like you never ever saw ♪
♪ I love you like the moment Which once lived cannot come back ♪
♪ I love you like that stolen glimpse That negates all that is lacked ♪
♪ I love you like the souvenir That's worth more than its cost ♪
♪ I love you like a memory You once thought was lost ♪
♪ I love you like the failures That haunt me in my dreams ♪
♪ I love you like the incompetence In the mirror that I see ♪
♪ I love you like the risk That suffocates that which could be ♪
♪ I love you like I love you Despite all that is me ♪