Tejas Kashyap and Aniqa Premjee met in August 2017, by chance and by misrecognition. Both were students at Emory University when Premjee spotted Kashyap at an outdoor bonfire party, mistook him for someone else and struck up a conversation as though they were already friends. He didn’t correct her. “By the time I realised who he actually was, it felt too late,” says Premjee. They began dating shortly after.
Premjee and Kashyap come from different faiths and communities, backgrounds that have shaped how they approach commitment, family, and eventually marriage. Eight years later, they live in New York City, where Kashyap is a Vice President at Oaktree Capital Management while Premjee works in Corporate Finance at Bloomberg. “Our relationship has always involved balancing demanding careers with travel, culture and community,” says Premjee. “Even the late-night wedding planning sessions became part of our story.”
The proposal came during a summer trip to Portugal in 2024. Kashyap proposed in a secluded cove on the beaches of Lagos, Portugal, at sunrise. Premjee was suspicious when he asked if she wanted to take sunrise photos the next morning while at dinner. “Tejas has never once volunteered to take photos,” she says. “Especially not at sunrise.” Kashyap had been carrying a custom engagement ring designed by Viya Jewelry throughout the trip and had arranged for a photographer to be waiting along the cliffs. At dawn, with the Atlantic below them, he proposed. “I burst into tears immediately,” says Premjee. They spent the rest of the day wandering the coastline, celebrating and nearly missing their ride back to Lisbon, getting caught up in revelries.
A wedding in Portugal–Sintra, to be specific–felt like a continuation of Kashyap and Premjee’s shared journey. Premjee had studied abroad in Lisbon, Kashyap had visited her there early in their relationship and the Ismaili Centre in Lisbon, one of only six in the world, is a spiritual landmark for her religious community. “We wanted our closest friends and family to experience Portugal the way we had,” Premjee says. “Together, in one shared stretch of time.”
They worked with Details Weddings, selecting the team for their experience with cross-cultural South Asian celebrations in Portugal. Months of site visits and planning meant that once the weekend began, Premjee and Kashyap could step away from logistics entirely. “It was the first time in our lives we didn’t carry a phone,” Premjee recalls. “There was no one to text. Everyone we loved was already there.”
