Couple wins in court of love
“This feeling washed over me, that this could be the beginning of everything,” she says.
[...] during their first, brief exchange at a networking event in August 2013, they jokingly discussed how much they disliked lawyers.
Vaishali, 27, is a Saratoga native who attended UC Davis and Santa Clara University, “becoming a lawyer when I was really old: 24,” she says.
After their first meeting and few dates, their relationship took off.
“Vaishali gives off this energy that makes me feel alive and very excited,” Abe says.
[...] there’s how he graduated from Stanford so young, and became the youngest city council member.
Abe proposed in 2014 at a winery in Livermore that he and Vaishali had visited early in their relationship.
On the Wednesday night before their wedding, the bride had a henna party at her parents’ home.
On Thursday night, the couple held a Sangeet (meaning “song”) at the Dublin Community Center so guests could meet informally.
Friday night was a family dinner, with the wedding and reception following on Saturday.
Abe rode into the wedding ceremony on a horse, as per tradition, but the couple says they were deliberate in choosing which rituals had meaning for them, such as the priest asking for blessings from their deceased ancestors.
On Sunday, the couple dined at the groom’s parents’ house, where Vaishali was welcomed as the new bride, and on Monday the couple joined the bride’s parents for lunch, where the groom was welcomed into the family.
Life for the pair is a bit slower now, since they ran Abe’s re-election campaign at the same time they were planning the wedding.
“What I love and admire most about them is the respect they have for one another,” said Harman Sandhu, a longtime friend of Vaishali’s.
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