...the first magical meeting in their own words

Sapna's story...

It’s not the most romantic story in the world but here's how it went down.

A proposal dropped in one fine day but when I heard that the guy is an NRI, I immediately said NO. I’ve seen a lot of NRIs during my collage days so I was a little prejudice but my parents wanted me to have a conversation with him at least once before I gave my final answer. You know how parents are :-)

So then the two of us exchanged a few emails and chatted a couple of times before we actually met. He seemed to be a nice, friendly guy. But I wanted to meet him before I decided anything. When we finally DID meet it seemed as though I had been talking to someone else all this time. He was completely different! … all quite and engrossed in thoughts. Our first “date” was in a restaurant called the golden palm. It was a bit strange because nether of us could strike much of a conversation. How much can two people talk about the weather right? ;-) I guess both of us were very self conscious and nervous.

Being a chatterbox I couldn’t sit silent for too long so I went on and on initiating small conversations (kya karu aadat se majboor) and thanks to Prashant’s patience he could endure my boring stories about my college, my friends, me, me and some more me :-). I think the more I talked the more he looked confused and indecisive. He didn’t talk much and I just thought throughout our conversation that he was deeply thinking about something. Was it about me or the group of girls who came and sat behind us…. WHO KNOWS!!. Nahito soch raha hoga ki yeh ladki kitna bolti hai.

After that first date, not understanding what the matter was, I was thinking of giving him a big NO again. But my parents thought that he was a decent person (so did I actually) and wanted me to give him some more time. Finally the next day I get a call from my sister that he said yes. Prashant was finally out of his deep thinking. God only knows what he was thinking for so long. I was however still a bit confused as to what he had to think so much about and what finally helped him turn the switch.

But now that I know him well for around five months I’m happy things worked out. He is much more open with me now and I feel lucky to have met him and more lucky to have him as my better half. In him, I find a true friend, a caring and a loving person and someone who I can trust to stand by me in every phase of life. And above all he is a good & honest human being.

I love him so much....

The End
 

Prashant's Story...

I never really thought much about marriage before that day. I was too busy enjoying my life as a bachelor. My mother used to send me profiles to look at and I made it a game to find something or the other wrong with them. Too short… too fat… too skinny… too dark … too fair… etc etc. Then one day I get Sapna's profile... “Hummmm lets see … what can I make fun off today…. Height seems good, not fat and not too skinny, complexion looks ok . Damn… it looks like my mum finally found someone potentially perfect”. So I give my amber signal to go ahead.

We then started emailing and chatting with each other and my first impression was that she seemed like a very nice person. She was an easy person to talk to and for those of you who know me, also know that it’s not easy to get a conversation out of me. But with her it was different. I felt that I could talk to her for hours. She had a sweet voice and liked telling stories about her collage days. I was coming to India for some official work so my mum quickly arranged for two more families to visit us during that time. Sapna was however the first one I was going to see.

The big day arrives and the two of us meet at a place called the Golden Palm. I’ll never forget that amazing evening. She came wearing a beautiful orange suit and had long side-swept bangs that simply blew me away. Arriving early, we picked the restaurant’s authentic style wooden deck to mark our historic first date. As we sit and my mind raced thought all the topics I thought might interest her. My car… What kind of a moron talks about his car on a first date…… Places in Dubai… if she hears me go on about that she will probably think that I’m a snob which I guess is the general impression of NRIs in India already…… How about my job… darn, we already covered that topic on the phone yesterday. WOW… will you look at the time. It’s already been 15 minutes and I haven’t said a thing. I have an addition to make to the proverb “time flies when you’re having fun” time also flies when you are looking for topics on your first date. As I sat there wondering why this beautiful, charming smart girl would ever want to marry a guy like me, the waiter comes down and lights the candle on our table. At that moment the whole world melted away around us. She was all I could see as her dark brown eyes twinkling in the candle light and her hair glistened in the glow of a near by street light. The tone of the evening was perfect as the sun dipped deeper over the horizon. I decided then and there that she would be the one.

As the evening went on we talked mostly about her collage days, the quality of the food they served us (which was exceptional by the way) and about our future plans. The rest of the evening went by pretty quickly and before you know it was time to go. I reached home and immediately told my mum “Yes, She is the one I want to spend my life with”. The expression on her face at that moment was priceless. Her eyes filled up with tears and she gasped for words. I got the biggest hug I had got in a long time. After her tears subsided and she was a bit more composed, she said … “now what do we tell the family that’s already driving down all the way from Puna to see you tomorrow?” We couldn’t call and tell them mid-journey to step on their breaks because the election is over and there was a landslide victory for someone else. So we waited for them, welcomed them the next day and were extremely courteous. Once they left we called Sapna’s family and gave them the good news. I had my fingers crossed the whole time hoping she didn't find me utterly boring the day before and had changed her mind. But by some weird chance, that had not happened and she said yes too. I must have done SOMETHING right that evening. The faceless, nameless girl that I had been dreaming about for years finally came into my life. It’s another thing that two hours later I had to break her heart and tell her that I was flying back to Dubai the next day due to a problem in my office. I can only imagine what must be going through the poor girl’s heart at that time.

But things worked out at the end and we were well on our way to building a strong future together…

I love her more then words can describe…

And so begins the start of our happily ever after….