Anil & Veena
Born in Australia to Indian parents Veena considers herself as an Australian with an Indian background. She is marrying Anil who is also a second generation Indian, in a traditional Hindu wedding in 4 months. Both Veena and Anils parents had arranged marriages in India.

Veena - “I had my first boyfriend at uni, he came home and it was all good. My father still thinks to this day that he was just my tennis partner.”

Anil - “The whole thing was arranged in a sense of the meeting initially but the only reason that it progressed was that we fell in love.”

Deepak & Ami
Ami’s parents moved to Australia when she was 2 years old. At the age of 30 and after months of her relatives trying to find her a suitable partner she met Deepak by arrangement, while holidaying in India. A few weeks later they were engaged and a few months later they were married in a traditional ceremony in India.

Ami - “I guess I kind of knew I would marry someone of Indian origin ultimately, mainly because I have a lot in common with someone like that. Aside from that I didn’t really know. To this day my friends all tease me because before I left, they all said ‘don’t get married!’ So they were just laughing – Indian goes to India and marries a boy.”

Deepak - “We went out a few times. It took about a week before we realized that we got along quite well. It wasn’t like love at first sight or anything. It took a while – but a week is not a long time, considering now that we’ve been married 10 years.”

Sunil & April
Born in Australia in 1974, Sunil is as much “Australian” as his fiancé, April. They are both not very religious but their wedding will be a mix of Indian and Australian traditions with enough Indian-ness to keep Sunil’s mother happy.

Sunil - “I remember when I took my mum to see Monsoon Wedding – it’s like porn for Indian mothers. The whole time she was like oh that’s beautiful but yours will be better, I’ve booked 2 elephants no only joking, only one. Stuff like that it was awful, for 2 hours just sitting next to my mother, I thought se was going to explode.”

Sunil's Mother Sushila - “The first time I met April something clicked and I said to Sunil later, ‘Whether you marry her or not, I’m keeping her.’”

Sunil - - “People have often said, well he’s not really Indian so he’s not really a Hindu priest but I feel like saying that’s the best part about it. I’m not really Indian either and he knows much more than we do and will ever know about the Hindu Cannon and theology that we ever will.”