A Day Remembered, an Evening Forgotten 05.25.13

This post is dedicated solely to Saturday, May 25, 2013. 

Saturday was the engagement. It happened. I'm glad it's over and I thought everything was really pretty and perfect. Here are some pictures: 

 

the ever so handsome groom-to-be. I love love love the picture on the right of him.

me all indian-ed out!

sketchy and my smiles (as you can see) were pretty tired and done by this point. Not sure which one i like best here. Thoughts? I think i like the one on the left. Want to get one of these blown up and printed for wall. 

Sketchy's new mom and dad and siblings. lol 

This one came out really cute. 

family

secret giggles

cutest baby and culture couple picture EVER. should win an award. seriously. 

same cute baby and people, different shot. =) 

male cousins and niko

Brenna (MOH) and AJ (Best Man) -- These two gave great speeches.

These two made Sketchy and me very proud. Sapna and Kris gave ridiculously amazing speeches... both of which caused me to cry my ass off. 

Me and Kris. Really wish i had gotten one good picture with sapna after all that she did all week and because she looked so so pretty!

Family picture

my grandmother. she was so lively the whole weekend. meant a lot to me for her to see my home in Virginia and for her to enjoy herself!

me and Nani

she was quite the picture taker

I love my face in this picture. cake cutting. Cakes say: She Said Yes 

cake cutting

Anjali gave a surprise (and beyond incredible) speech 

she was so brave!

So one of my favorite parts of the ceremony was when my family decided to start taking "selfies" with me and sketchy in the background. Then when they started taking group selfies it became a party. I like that they brought some lighthearted happiness to the day!

this is one of my favorite pictures just to see all the natural laughs/smiles

we're still missing some cousins in this picture but for the most part we got a good chunk!

one of my favs.

Then we moved on to the BBQ which was 10x more successful than I thought it'd be. With the yard in a state of disaster and in the midst of make-over we had very little to work with. Thank you to my cousins who ran out and bought all the beer, chips, food and everything else to make the party amazing. 

brown vs. white flip cup. there's a great selfie shot with this background, but i chose to leave that out in leu of the next photo.

i liked the picture OF rovi taking the selfie. lol 

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There was food and other things i promise. Just not pictured. I started to finally chill out mid-way through the bbq! Thanks to the family that did come out and celebrate with us even if just to stop by. 

and so ended the bbq and so started the DC afterparty! 

we ended up at Rumours. Varsha looks dead. Everyone else looks happy. 

Me and the Patels. Hetal the only patel to make it out after much coercion. 

Kerry's drunk sign. Baltimore fan looks like he's taking a liking to Kris in the background.

Navin and Kristen having fun while Varsha and Mo really feel that music

lots of dancing. all i've ever wanted =) Creeper james in the back. 

more dancing

the best. =) 

While the youngins and wild ones were out partying. The party bus took the aunts and others out to enjoy a midnight monument tour! They seemed to have made quite a few stops and had fun. success. 

And then... 

there was the morning after, when everyone woke up on the same couch. all 1003902 people. Such a perfect end to a perfect weekend. 

Thank you again to all my friends and family who helped with any and everything to make Saturday one of the best days of my life. Hopefully created some good memories (or lack thereof) for you guys too!