Parul & Shubham
We lovingly invite you to the happiest day of our lives.
Come bring us together
Vancouver
Pune
Parul
Shubham
I always wanted a meet-cute like in all the romance novels I grew up reading and that's the one thing Shubham and I didn't have.
He will say we met "through our parents", but we actually met through this matchmaker who decided which profiles would be a good fit based on our preferences and shared them with us. My elder sister urged me to talk to him because she really thought we would get along based on his profile and for some reason I even ended up agreeing, which was surprising because I had been super reluctant to talk to anyone through these methods.
When he first texted me, he was in France and I was in Canada. We texted a bit and decided to get on a video call. From the beginning, our conversation just flowed.
I had more fun on that hour long e-date than I had had on any other date I've ever been on. But towards the end of the conversation we realized it couldn't work because we were both going to be across the world from each other and had no plans at the time to make a move. We even told our parents that we weren't interested in taking this forward. But even after the call, we kept texting. And from one message a day, before we knew it, we were texting paragraphs and paragraphs to each other. Things started clicking as we got on more calls and everything just came together.
We met for the first time in December one day before my birthday in Delhi where I was attending a friend's wedding and he chose to surprise me. Meeting him felt so natural and since then I never looked back.
Most of our relationship has been in long distance and it's seen its fair share of trials and tribulations that we both had to work immensely hard to get through. Everything was rosy in the beginning and then when the honeymoon phase wore off we realized there was so much more to this other person than we initially thought. Our growth together (which is always ongoing) is something I will always be proud of.
Before I met Shubham, I didn't think a relationship like this could be possible. Somebody I could talk to about anything and for hours without running out of things to say. I have never met anyone as intentional, effortful and self-reflective as him, and no one else who understands me as he does. My favourite aspect of our relationship is that we are similar in all the ways that matter and opposites in all the areas that keep things interesting between us. He makes everything in my life better and more fun, and I can't wait for our big day!