Guests had already been given the backstory before they arrived. Reva Goswami and Shrey Anand’s wedding invite mapped their thirteen-year journey like a Bollywood rom-com, tracing the arc from school and friendship to Dublin, London, a proposal and finally the wedding in New Delhi itself. “We wanted our friends and family to feel that sentiment even before they joined us, to know they were being invited to celebrate a story and surround it with their love and blessings,” they say.
The couple first met in school, in the tenth grade, when they were 15. “Our class had barely eleven people, but even if there had been a hundred, I would’ve spotted her,” recalls Shrey. What followed was a friendship that stretched across years and cities, from Delhi to Bangalore to Dublin, with birthdays, heartbreaks and constant check-ins along the way. They also did a summer internship together after school, another chapter in a bond that outlasted its teenage setting. Over the years, they stayed in each other’s lives even as timing, distance and uneven signals kept the relationship from settling into anything straightforward.
In 2023, it finally did. They found themselves in the same city, single at the same time, for the first time in years. A trip to Dublin followed, then London and Edinburgh, where Shrey asked her out properly. “It felt like something that was always meant to happen… just at the right time,” Reva says. Their wedding invitation described that stretch of their relationship through Europe in filmy detail, from dancing in the rain by the Thames to finally turning years of near-misses into something real.
“The proposal was everything Shrey is as a person: dreamy, slightly chaotic and full of surprises,” says Reva. Before the real proposal, he staged five or six elaborate dates that each seemed suspiciously likely to end in an engagement, only for the evening to pass without one. “For me, it was hilarious. For her, not so much,” he says. By the time the actual day arrived, she was thoroughly thrown off. He had everything arranged, including both their mothers, their closest friends, sunset, candlelight, a photographer and, for reasons he “still stands by”, a horse. “In the middle of all that chaos, it turned into something really magical,” he says. “I asked her to marry me, she said yes, and it became one of the best days of my life.”
