Shreeya and Amol had an eight-year courtship while they both attended colleges in different cities of Texas but they knew when they would get married it would be a very traditional celebration. They got married on June 3, 2017 at Cindy’s Palace in a traditional red, white and green celebration.
The couple met as sophomores in college through mutual friends. He attended Texas A&M University, Collage Station and she attended the University of Texas, Austin. As they grew together over the years they knew they would be married and that they had found their soul mate. Amol proposed in December 2016 at Hermann Park in Houston, TX. He planned an intimate proposal since both sides of the families had already began the wedding arrangements. He surprised Shreeya with an adorable video, a perfect ring and involved their niece and nephew.
She says: For our wedding we sought to be very traditional and tried to accommodate both of our families’ traditions. We were both in medical school, so we let our parents really handle it all. Our poor mothers were very stressed. It was a challenge, but it came together beautifully. They were true wedding planners.
And on the day of the wedding, as I entered the wedding hall, Amol cried. My uncle had to offer him a tissue! He swears it was because of the music, but I don’t believe him. When I arrived at the mandap and finally saw him crying, I started laughing at him and tearing up also. It became a mess of us both laughing and crying, confusing all of our friends and family.
We wanted to create a special memory at our wedding, so I choreographed an elaborate reception entrance in which we danced through the tables and did several lifts and dips. I made my husband painstakingly learn it all and pick me up and down over and over until it was perfect. We practiced a month before the wedding and then put it on the back-burner. When we practiced again a few days before the wedding, I had completely forgot it! I was panicking, when he patiently taught it all back to me. Thank goodness!
The sweetest part of our day were our vows. We both wrote our own vows to each other, to be incorporated into our wedding video. Neither of us had heard the others’ vows until the highlight video played at our wedding reception. To our surprise, they were nearly identical! We both poked fun at each other and ourselves for our battling colleges, my sweet tooth, and his goofy dancing, among other things.
Photographer: SB Image Studios
Videographer: Epique Cinema
Decorator: Dream Decors Design House
Cake: Cafe Rustika
Caterer: Bhojan
Hair and makeup: Eternal Glow: mehndi day and Blush and Glow: wedding day
DJ/ Entertainment: Desi Junction DJs
Bridal Clothes: Friendship Sarees
Grooms Clothes: Manyavar
