Shashank & Dolma
Dear Shaadi.com! Thank you so much for helping my wife and I find each other. We met last June 2005 on your web-site, got engaged in August 2005 and just recently got married in Jan 2006! We look forward to spending a long & happy life together! Thanks once again for helping us find each other and for such a great web-site. Cheers!
Mitesh & Ananya
Infact our story is not less than a bollywood movie. We both had a bitter past with our first marriage and were quite reluctant for the second one, but due to parental pressure from both the sides we both finally got into SHAADI.com and the story began. I am an architect running my own practice in Dubai and she was a psychology teacher in Dubai, both hailing from Bombay. Soon after we both registered, i mean not even a week had passed, she contacted me impressed by the photograph. We spoke for about 45 mins on that evening and after couple of days of conversation i commited to her(without even looking at her). Then the day came and we met and became friends and within a month got engaged and now on 2nd february got married. Yes, forgot to mention that she is a Punjabi and I am a Sindhi, so usually when people come to know about us they misjudge it to be a love marriage, while I think this is neither a "Love Marriage" nor an "Arranged Marriage" ......This is a "Dot Com Marriage"......All thanks to Shaadi.com for giving us ray of hope after we had lost it in in the past....Hope you continue to do the good work for years to come. "Marriages are made in Heaven" but you guys "Solemnize it on earth"....How truly said.....
Supreet & Pooja
The first step towards my happy married life with Pooja was shaadi.com. I first saw her on this beautiful site. Thanx a lot for giving us both a lovely life partner. Three cheers for shaadi.com !!! Hip Hip Hurray !!!
Muhammad & Shabnam
My name is faisal and my wife name is shabnam khan ,Well we both met through shaadi.com on 02 feb 2005 and we got married on 23 december 2005,It is said that marriages are made in heaven. We realized it through shaadi.com.and it's ture that we made for each other and god make coplue on sky. i live in saudia (jeddah), and she live in pakistan its true that i belongs to pakistan buyt there is difference cities, we mailed each other in beginning and then got onto chatting msn messenger and yahoo help me and there is no any one day after we meet we can chat and chat goes more then 12 hours a day, Then we decided to make marrige even we can't see both of us, it's very strange that with out seeing take a dession to make marrige, and this is I always ask to my wife ! when night falling. Are you my wife that i got from shaadi.com And her that time smile and eyes take my heart and her smile more than billioner dollor ,hahaha i can't forget that moments and hole day inturrpting me her eyes and smile of the time., Thanks Shaadi.com, for making us meet each other and truly its only through you that we are happily married today!! I'm a pakistani guy and shaadi.com related to india i realy thankful to you if u issue my stry by shaadi .com and form depest from my heart and my wife a realy thankful to you !! I'm realy very thankful to you if you put me in your marrige page !!! I'm realy very thankful,I'm realy very thankful becuse god make haven that you got after die but behalf of yoru website i got my haven in this eath thank you tooo much..
Maya & Naveen
I had almost given up hope of finding a groom through shaadi.com. It was a wet and cloudy day in July 2005 when I received a chat request from Rishikesh. The person seemed to be sincere and pleasant and we chatted for some time. We exchanged details about our different life styles at Mumbai and Rishikesh. Soon we started chatting every day for an hour. But all the time I had this worry at the back of my mind that I didn't want to leave Mumbai. I have lived in Mumbai all my life and I have been working here since 11yrs. Naveen seemed to be a sensitive, caring and mature person and we started speaking to each other every night. He had his own business at Rishikesh and to my delight was willing to shift to any city in India! Well, Naveen came down to Mumbai to see me in August 2005. My parents were not very happy about this proposal as the boy was from a North Indian Jaat family. We were fish crazy Malayalis from Gods own country- Kerala. I was very nervous when I met Naveen for the first time but I soon started to relax in his company as I found him to be easy going, patient, talkative and open- hearted. He was also very brave to have come down to see me in Mumbai without knowing what the outcome of this visit would be! In fact, to my surprise my parents liked him instantly! Naveen returned to Rishikesh with a big smile on his face and a heart filled with hope. We visited his family in Rishikesh in September 2005. Rishikesh is a beautiful town close to Dehradun and Haridwar. It is surrounded by hills on all sides and the holy river Ganga flows by. Naveen took me to a little Shiv temple among the hills and it was then that I decided that this should be the venue of our wedding. We met all his family members (He has a huge family with five siblings, jijajis and their kids). Some of them were not very happy about this North-South alliance. We both were very much in love by now and couldn't wait to be together. Meanwhile Naveen was busy trying to convince his entire family that I was the one made for him. His mother had secretly visited the Panditji with our date of births. Surprisingly our horoscopes matched very well and that became a positive aspect in his marriage campaign! We both were in a big hurry to fix up the date and finally the d-day was set for the 10th of Dec 2006. My parents were unhappy that we had decided to get married at Rishikesh but later they thanked us that they had the opportunity to visit such a wonderful and holy place. We were to have a typical saath phera North- Indian style wedding which I had only seen in movies. I had to make several phone calls to my in-laws to get the colours and textures of my wedding trousseau right. Naveen visited me once again in Nov and it was very difficult for us to part once again before our wedding. Finally with Gods blessings all the ceremonies went off very well admist the freezing cold December days. Later we visited Mussourie for our honeymoon and are now happily settled at Mumbai. Thanks to shaadi-com I found my perfect life partner from a place that I could have never imagined! I also thank God every day for giving me such a wonderful husband who's extremely loving, patient, handsome, naughty, witty, and I could go on and on... So all you guys out there please don't loose hope as there may be a silver lining waiting for you just around the corner. All the Best!
Basudev & Avani
hi shaadi.com team........ what better occassion than "Valentine's Day", to realize that you found a perfect life partner....and the reason is "Shaadi.com"........ Without this site i think i would never have the person that i was looking for.....coz finding husbands is not difficult...but finding a 'life-partner' is surely not easy...... Well...mine is a short and sweet story....this is how it all happned..... "Dec 2004 i became a paod member of Shaadi.com and in Jan mid i met Basudev.....presently my husband.....and after 3 phones and 2 email.....we found that we were made for each other. But he was in New Delhi and i was in Bangalore.....2500 kms apart...never seen each other...never met each other......what to do.....? So in April 2004 i decided it is high we meet each other and after that nothing works out we shall part off......so i went to Delhi all alone ...met him....and by god's grace all went well....... In August 2004 he permanently shifted to Bangalore because of me...(rather because of the high telephone bills.....) and by October our marriage date was finalized...... Finally....we had an engagement on Dec 2 (coincidently it was also my brithday...) and got married on Dec 3, 2004......oh wow what a wedding we had..... And now....today...is our first valentine;s day after the wedding and we thank you guys that we met and can share our lives together for ever...... THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH.....
Dibya & Vivek
I want to gratitude my heartiest thanks to shaadi.com for finding me a suitable Mr Right. I would also like to say thanks to my hubby Vivek for hearing my thoughts, understanding my dreams and being my best friend for filling my life with joy and loving me endlessly. We all know that marriages are fixed in heaven way before we get to know who will be life partner. Not long ago priests, friends and relatives have served as a strong medium for setting up the marriage. Well in recent times, the revolution in information technology has made it all possible to select our life partners with more flexibility and with ease and distance around the globe is no longer a limitation. The most important role played in this love cum arrange marriage was by my sister Renudi who initiated me and literally dragged me into the web-world for finding my hubby and helped me in such a way that I'll always be thankful to her. My marriage happened in a way as it was a dream comes true. I would like to start from the very beginning where Vivek had my profile as one and only favorite. Without knowing about his blind love for me, I preferred to keep myself away from the marriage affair, but couldn't keep myself away for long. One fortunate day (22nd March 2003), I accepted his profile and started communicating with him. His sober and loving nature reflected his great personality. There is a saying 'Well began is half done' That's true. Within a month, we had a chat on net as well as over the phone and we got closer. Our parents showed a positive response as well. It is needless to say that I got mesmerized with his charismatic appearance and behavior. Finally, we got officially engaged on 9th June 2003 and then tied the knot on the very auspicious day of 21st June 2003 in very conventional and traditional way. Today we are so happy with each other and find ourselves perfect for each other. Thank you very much Shaadi.Com
Bhawini & Jayesh
Jayesh and Bhawini met on 23 Aug 2005 in Singapore, fell in love, got engaged in November 2005 and got married about 2 months later on 30 Jan 2006 with the blessings of respected family members. Bhawini's wait for her knight in shining armour was over Thank you Shaadi.com for helping us find our life partners!
Hima & Gaurav
How We Went From 'That Don't Impress Me Much' To 'Forever & For Always' :) Date: 29-July-05 Time: 6ish IST / 10.30ish PST I was just about to log off the Shaadi messenger when Gaurav messaged me. To this date, I don't know what made him send me a message, but I ain't complaining, for sure! We ended up chatting for about an hour and my takeaways from the conversation were his sophistication, politeness, genuine passion for his work and an inherent and deep respect for family values. Gaurav, on his part, maintains that he liked 'everything about me' from the start, which I THINK is meant as a compliment. Jokes apart, though, the long and short of it is that both of us logged off with this pleasant, (s)he-may-be-the-one feeling in the head, and the heart. Date: 31-July-05 Time: 7ish IST / 11.30ish PST It's time! He should be calling me any minute, according to our last chat a couple of hours ago. The house is in a state of utter chaos because of the whitewash, and hence I am standing in the balcony, the only place unoccupied by the hired help, waiting for Gaurav's call. Just when I think I have had enough trying to pretend that I am just having my usual evening stroll, threading my way amongst the cans of paints scattered all around, and smiling at the overzealous female occupants of the adjacent houses (who I suspect may have been betting on the various reasons I need the 'privacy'), the phone goes Tra-la-la! Finally! :) I say a cautious 'Hello' into the phone and he replies back with an equally hesitant 'Hey! What's up?'. I instantly like his voice and the way he talks, and that helps me ease into the conversation. He also opens up after a bit when he realizes that I am not too bad to talk to! Amazed at how many things we share in common, we end up talking for an hour-and-a-half. Surprising and encouraging, since neither of us is a big talker. The two things I know about him for sure, by the time we disconnect, is that 'It's alright' is his favourite one-liner, and a 'Wow' can be used to express a gamut of feelings , from a 'this-is-absolutely-awesome' 'wow' to a 'what-the-hell-is-this' kind of wow! The aunties have reluctantly disappeared into their kitchens to prepare dinner, it is absolutely dark and I bump into a couple of paint cans as I make my way back into my room. As I drift to sleep that night, I find myself going over the conversation in my mind, and smiling to myself, something that I thought only happened in movies. August to December Through endless conversations on IMs/Skype (a big and heartfelt Thank-You To you guys!) /phone, the only ways open to two people physically separated by an impossibly-huge-number-of-miles (sorry, was never good at Maths!), we got to know each other better, and the feeling of closeness and commitment grew steadily north. Our virtual courtship had the usual highs and lows; the difference in time zones and our work schedules played spoilsport quite a number of times, but I guess, what is to be will be. We could always tide over difficult times, mainly thanks to Gaurav, who ended up sacrificing his normal sleeping hours almost daily, so that we could be constantly in touch. I was always of the opinion that you cant really decide whether you want to spend the rest of your life with a person unless and until you have actually met him and spent some time together. Gaurav thought differently, and always used to tell me that as long as you are committed and genuine and believe in the other person, meeting personally is just a formality. We always ended up debating the point. Funny then, that by October, I had more or less decided that he was the one. And so did he, or so he tells me! Okay then, without much ado, cut to December. Date : 24-Dec-05 Time : 6.15 IST Gaurav is supposed to fly down for two weeks in a couple of days. In the past month, our parents have come to know about us, I have already met his family and find them just as caring and affectionate as Gaurav is. But I am anxious and more than a little nervous at the prospect of finally meeting him in a couple of days' time, a feeling that isn't helped by the fact that I am supposed to meet Gaurav's uncle at this swanky hotel, and I am standing in the lobby waiting for Gaurav's mom and uncle. I cannot even call/text Gaurav and talk to him because he is supposedly away in Melbourne, having an early New Year bash with his friends. The door opens and Gaurav walks in, gives me a hug and hands me this huge bouquet of roses. I try to accept the fact that my brain is telling me, that this indeed is Gaurav, that I have been had, that the Mel-thing was just a huge yarn spun for my benefit, that everyone including his Mom and Dad were in on the surprise, and that I should hug him back and thank him for the lovely roses. But all I can do is stand there, grin inanely and stare. After several futile attempts to talk to me and to ask me how I liked the surprise, the poor soul gives up and settles on driving me around instead. By the time we get to his home, my eyeballs are back in their usual place, and I am (almost) back to normal and more importantly, both of us are happy and content, at having finally met and sharing the same comfort and happiness in each other's presence. The rest of the day passes by with no more surprises. My family meet Gaurav too and everyone is happy all around. A week later, we get engaged. Date: 30-Dec-05 After exactly six months and a day since we first met, Gaurav and I got engaged to each other with the blessings of family and friends. The wedding date has been solemnized for the 21st of April, when we will officially begin our new journey together, a journey that started in July this year. Both of us would like to thank Shaadi.com for bringing us together, and for converting us from skeptics to believers. Thank you so much, and keep up the good work! Thanks
Sanjeev & Preeya
Sanjeev's perspective: I put up my profile in March 2005 and in a few weeks I saw Preeya's profile. After chatting for a couple of weeks, we decided to meet. I distinctly remember my thoughts while muddling through Los Angeles traffic on my way to meet Preeya: - I was born and brought up in India and she was born and brought up here. Will our values match? As I approached her, she seemed even more beautiful than in the picture that she had sent me. I thoroughly enjoyed our first date. In the following weeks and months, we got comfortable with each other. It did not take me long to realize that she was my dream girl. It was clear that we loved each other. Now for the difficult part: I had to buy an engagement ring AND think of a romantic way to propose to her. Me, romantic? Please! But I knew that the exact way I propose would mean a lot to her. I went all over Los Angeles looking for the perfect ring and finally found it in the jewelry district. Whew, one task down, one more to go! Her best friend tried to advise me on possible ways to propose: hot air balloon ride, writing Preeya, will you marry me? in a public place, etc. I racked my brain but finally chose to keep it simple. I took her to her favorite spot The Montage Resort in Laguna Beach and proposed during a beautiful sunset. Our families were ecstatic at the news of my proposal. It turns out that our family values are quite similar. I have never been happier in my whole life. I can't wait to spend the rest of my life with Preeya. Preeya's perspective: Our love story began when Sanjeev contacted me through Shaadi.com. I was a bit wary at first, but I figured I wasn't getting any younger and my parents' connections could only take me so far. I lived with my parents and my life consisted of going to work, eating, and sleeping. Let's face it: I wasn't going to meet anyone without some outside help. I didn't really expect to meet Mr. Right through Shaadi.com, but I thought it would at least give me something to do on weekends and maybe I could even score a few free dinners out of it. A few weeks after putting my profile up, Sanjeev contacted me. After reading his profile, I concluded that he was not a weirdo and called him. We met a couple of weeks later in Newport Beach, California. My intent was only to meet for coffee, but we ended up spending seven hours together. After coffee, we walked along the beach, played miniature golf and had dinner together. We agreed to meet again the following weekend. Sanjeev and I lived about an hour's drive from each other so meeting on the weekends was most convenient. We met every weekend after our first date and each weekend we got a little closer. On the fourth of July we admitted our love for one another and a couple of months later Sanjeev proposed at sunset on a bench at a local beach. He wanted it to be a surprise, but when he told me he would be coming over on a Friday evening in peak LA traffic, I kind of knew he was planning something special. Our families were thrilled at the news of our engagement. If it were not for Shaadi.com, I would have never met Sanjeev. I'm probably the least computer savvy person and I had no trouble using the website. Putting my profile up was easily the best thing I have ever done. I got much more than a free dinner, I found the love of my life. Thank you Shaadi.com for helping us find our life partners! Our wedding is scheduled for July 28th, 2006.
