Real Weddings: Swipe Right

"I remember seeing The Tamarind Tree hotel back in 2012—it has the charm of an old vintage South Indian villa. I knew this is the place I would want to get married in and I did."

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Our advice

No matter how much you plan and prepare, a few things will go wrong. But this isn’t something you or your family should fret over. Remember to truly enjoy your wedding and make sure your parents do the same.

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Off the beaten track

Our wedding was small, intimate, and minimalist. We combined our sangeet and reception but didn’t have a stage in order to avoid standing in one area, meeting the never-ending queue of guests. Instead, we spent the first hour and a half mingling with everyone, which was followed by the toasts and dances.

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Destined to meet

How we met is Sandeep’s favourite story to tell—“It wasthe summer of 2014 in San Francisco, California when I saw a girl at my friend’s birthday party and she looked amazing. And that was it. Years later, in 2018, I was matched with a profile on dating platform Coffee Meets Bagel. The face looked familiar. It was the same girl I had seen back in 2014—Anusha.” We went on our first date, and here we are.

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Software engineers Anusha Venugopal and Sandeep Gangudi were a match made on a dating app.