Muhammad Sameer Sheikh Weds Afifa Burney
HOUSTON: Though they both went to different Universities of Texas, it wasn’t till their junior year that Muhammad Sameer Sheikh met Afifa Arif Burney, both 27, at a get together through some common friends. Slowly they grew attached, and the rest, as the saying goes, is history. Their overjoyed parents made plans for the wedding, […]
The Wedding was Elaborate, but the Shahs had Prepared for Years
By Jawahar Malhotra HOUSTON: When Mahesh and Alpa Shah started to plan out their daughter Mosum’s wedding to Umang Jain, they didn’t really have to look too far. They already knew the venues across the metropolitan area, could plan out the menus in their sleep, knew all the major wedding planners and were close to […]
Fairy Tale Wedding for Rish Oberoi & Alysha Alibhai
By Jawahar Malhotra CANCUN, MEXICO: It was the stuff that Bollywood weddings are made of: 320 guests flew in from across the globe – North America, Europe, Asia, Africa – all descending on the Planet Hollywood hotel on the peninsula in the tourist playground city of Cancun. They came for a 3-day, 4-event extravaganza and […]
Nikit Bhatt Marries Natasha Noun
HOUSTON: Natasha Noun and Nikit Bhatt were married at the Holy Rosary Church in front of friends and family from US and abroad as Nikit’s Grandmother made a special visit from India. An awesome reception was held to celebrate the wedding at beautiful ballroom in JW Marriott Galleria hotel on July 6. Wonderful catering was […]
How Anushka Sharma-Virat Kohli defied social media culture and kept their wedding a classy affair
In times when we are kept up to date on every minutia of a celebrity’s wedding day including both the pre-wedding and post-wedding ceremonies, Anushka Sharma and Virat Kohli managed to keep their nuptials under the wraps. While others were sharing photos from their mehendi, sangeet, and haldi ceremony, Virushka was busy avoiding the paparazzi. Even when […]
Ashna Kataria Weds Rohan Buntval
By Jawahar Malhotra ANGLETON, TX: You can tell how deeply two people are in love when they still remember not just how they met, but even the date and other memorable dates that came along. And it helps if you are as intense a person as Ashna Kataria is. She remembers the night of Monday, […]
Jeremy Gyan Malhotra – Kathryn Ann Davis Wedding Celebration
WASHINGTON, DC: They met seven years ago while volunteers in the US Peace Corps in Togo, a slither of a country in the hump of Western Africa. He was stationed in the tiny village of Aheppe in the southeast while she was in the northwest, ten hours to the north by jungle taxi. But the […]
Rita Golikeri Weds Eric Wood
By Jawahar Malhotra FORT WORTH, TX: Some may call it coincidence while others would say it’s karma. But this couple who had met in this North Texas town just west of Dallas didn’t really believe in anything like that when they were introduced by some mutual friends one Spring evening in 2014. They didn’t really […]
Namrita Singh – Mathew Mathew Wedding
By Jawahar Malhotra HOUSTON: They met, perchance, at a wedding, which is the one place where busy young professionals have an opportunity to check others out and be introduced to people outside their normal orbit. The notion of six degrees of separation was not only true in their case, but a little persuasion from their […]
Vishal Nigam – Carrie Rhodes Engagement
By Jawahar Malhotra SUGAR LAND:Everyone who knew Vishal Nigam growing up in the Bayou City teased him about how long he was taking to find the right soul mate and many had written him off as a confirmed bachelor. But luck intervened in the form of an Indian friend Kalpana who was cross-culturally married to […]
Arun Bala Weds Kelly Pfister
By Jawahar Malhotra HOUSTON: It was a passion for teaching that destined them to the same high school, but it was the proverbial copy machine that finally brought them together! After their undergraduate degrees, both taught at Robert E. Lee High School in Houston’s west side. Kelly was standing in a job fair line in […]
Here’s where Urmila Matondkar will SHIFT with hubby Mohsin Akhtar post marriage!
Everyone is busy decoding the mystery behind Urmila Matondkar’s secret marriage with model-turned-actor Mohsin Akhtar Mir. While we just brought to you the real reason why Urmila wanted to keep her wedding a private affair by quietly ringing in the ceremony at her Bandra residence. Later we even came across the inside pictures of their intimate wedding. […]
For Nadeem and Shuana it was Simply Love at First Sight!
By Jawahar Malhotra HOUSTON: It all started at a friend’s birthday party and there were many people around. He recalls her coming up to him and starting a conversation and thought she was really courageous and bold. She thought he was kind of shy, but really wanted him to call her later and found a […]
Happy Together After All These 25 Years!
By Jawahar Malhotra HOUSTON: They may have met a few times in the same college they went to in Katmandu, Nepal but they didn’t know that their fates would bring them even closer together years later. He was a busy soccer player, having formed the 3 Star Club and if he wasn’t practicing, he was […]
Saif Kazim Weds Nermeen Khan
By Jawahar Malhotra SUGAR LAND: They were almost neighbors living in the northwest part of the city and certainly went to the same school district but different high schools: he went to Cy-Falls and she went to Cy-Fairs but their paths didn’t cross then. Call it Fate or one of those happy coincidences in Life; […]
Welcoming Two Gauravs, One Again and One Anew
By Jawahar Malhotra SUGAR LAND: It was a memorable occasion for the people who came to meet Gaurav Mathur again at the luncheon at Sweetwater Country Club this past Sunday, November 15, on a sunny Fall day that lifted everyone’s spirits. Many remembered him the affable young man who grew up in their midst; with […]
Therese Cole Hubbs of Electric Karma Wins IACCGH Raffle Draw
By Manu Shah HOUSTON: On November 11, IACCGH held a Raffle draw for an elegant Rolex watch. The funds generated by the sale of tickets will be used to fund a new Educational Initiative that will offer students Internship opportunities in India and other educational initiatives. The meeting, held at the Hess Club was attended […]
Ragini Bahl Weds Veeral Gajjar
By Jawahar Malhotra SUGAR LAND: Most wedding receptions usually feature a slideshow collage of the highpoints in the lives of the newlyweds, from shots of them as tiny tots and racing up through the years till they meet and start dating and spending time together. This couple decided to turn the formula on its head […]
Kausthub Kumar Marries Deepa Raghunathan
By Jawahar Malhotra HOUSTON: Fewer and fewer unions among young Indian couples – now even in the Old Country – seem to follow the arranged marriage footsteps of their parent’s generation; with most families opting to introduce their adult children and take a wait-and-see attitude. Among young Indian-Americans who are of the marriageable age the […]
Nikhil Agarwal Weds Naina Prakash
By Jawahar Malhotra SUGAR LAND: One can never tell how the meandering road of Life brings two people together. In the case of this couple, you might say that divine intervention played a major role many years ago when Nikhil Agarwal was still a rebellious teenager. “I would go to the Houston Satya Sai Center […]
