At this Indian-Korean wedding, the bride wore a Gaurav Gupta gown covered in her grandmother’s favourite flower

For the rehearsal dinner that evening, Mehta wore a vintage archival dress sourced from Isle of Monday. The heavyweight-silk piece served as her “something borrowed”, and she wore it with green emerald earrings from Amaris Jewels and René Caovilla shoes.

Along with the heirloom jewellery pieces she wore for the paebaek, Mehta chose her nani’s diamond necklace for the vows ceremony and her dadi’s necklace for the rehearsal dinner. When her nani’s jewellery box reached her before the wedding, she opened it and began to cry. “It smelled exactly like her closet growing up.”

Han’s uncle, Dr Soong Chan Rah, has officiated his family’s weddings and did the same for the couple. For the ceremony, he wore a stole made from Han’s grandmother’s hanbok. Han wore a vintage Korean watch passed down from his late grandfather.

Rain interrupted the couple’s first look the following afternoon, then cleared before the outdoor ceremony. Jasmine spilt from clay pots around a terracotta platform, with pink and green flowers against the waterfront. Mehta walked down the aisle to a violin rendition of Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, her favourite film growing up.

She chose a Tarun Tahiliani lehenga with a structured, hand-embroidered skirt worked with crystals, pearls and sequins, and a blouse with draped lace wings. Her mother had also worn Tarun Tahiliani for her own wedding ceremony. Mehta added a tulle veil embroidered with cranes, a Korean symbol associated with longevity, and wore her nani’s diamond necklace.

Han wore a bespoke black double-breasted Watson Ellis suit with wide-legged trousers and an open collar in place of a tie. He had the initials AMH, for Aviva Mehta Han, embroidered on his shirt cuff and wore the vintage Korean watch inherited from his grandfather.

Jasmine’s her nani’s favourite flower, and after learning that she wouldn’t be able to travel to Montauk for their wedding Mehta picked Look 15 from Gaurav Gupta’s Spring/Summer ’26 couture showcase, covered in thousands of handcrafted mogra tassels as an homage. “I had an emotional reaction to the gown,” she says.

At the reception, Mehta changed into the silk-chiffon and tulle gown exactly as it had appeared on the runway. The couple seated guests ate at long tables lit with candles and decorated with fruit and vegetables. A pair of wooden Korean wedding ducks sat on the couple’s table to signify lasting love, one dressed in blue fabric for Han’s favourite colour and the other in pink for Mehta’s. The couple also attached Korean knot tassels, symbols of good health and long life, to individual escort cards for their guests.

Han’s brother spent months developing two signature cocktails, one based on soju and another on imli. Their names came from stories their friends knew well. ‘Stomach of Steel’ dated back to Han’s first visit to India, when Mehta’s family warned him to be careful about what he ate and he confidently assured them that nothing could affect him. The following day, he came down with the worst food poisoning he had experienced and had to continue travelling through Delhi and Agra. ‘Shorty’ came from Han’s early DMs to Mehta, where he used the nickname so often that her friends eventually began calling her it too.