We invited readers to share stories of how they met their spouses and interesting anecdotes about their wedding day. Here's Vidhyashankar B's account of how he courted Bhavani.
I'd rather let the readers decide if it was an arranged marriage or a love marriage after reading 'my love story'
I work in Singapore and my parents are in Chennai. I was 26 then.
It all started on the morning of May 30. It happened to be my off day and mom had called.
After the usual saaptiya thoonginiya(did you eat / sleep) etc she asked me if she can start looking for a bride for me.
Getting a negative reply, she insisted that there was a nice girl in the same apartment and if I would be interested she could look into our horoscopes.
At the time it had been four since my parents moved into the new apartment and nearly eight years since I moved out of India.
So basically I had no idea about anyone in their neighbourhood.
I was still adamant that I wasn't ready for marriage. Even my mom tried to persist that my dad found the girl very impressive but it didn't seem to work on me. That was the end of our conversation.
But things took an unexpected turn because of my friend Sriram.
He insisted that I at least get to know the girl.
Very hesitantly I called up my mom again and asked about her.
I got to know that her name was Bhavani and didn't continue with the conversation.
Later I tried to track her down online. Thousands of women with her name turned up in the search on Orkut.
When I refined my search only one turned up!
Incidentally she had re-named her name as 'Bhavani@Chennai' because she had just moved to Chennai a few months ago. I introduced myself.
Though she was reluctant at first but after much convincing that I was indeed the son of her neighbour we chatted first on Orkut then on Gtalk and later over the phone.
Finally we met each other when I came down to Chennai for my cousin's wedding.
After I returned, we continued chatting on the Internet and phone. Minutes turned to hours and my phone bill began to shoot up.
And after a year of courting, I finally proposed to her all this without my parents having any idea about it!
After that we told our parents, got engaged in April 2008 and got married in August that year.
Now we have a six-month old baby
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Love story: I told her 'You are my Anjali'
We invited readers to share stories of how they met their spouses and interesting anecdotes about their wedding day. Here's Anand J's account of how he courted his wife.
This was the time when I was doing my internship in a chartered accountant's office in 1998.
The same year Kuch Kuch Hota Hai was released, where Shah Rukh Khan was Rahul and Kajol played Anjali.
I used to feel magnetic with a junior girl who had just finished her graduation and had joined as an articled clerk in the same office in which I was pursuing my internship.
She was very jhalee (very bubbly) and had an infectious smile and typical shyness of a girl who was venturing into the Big Bad World....
Whenever she got a chance even she would try and be around me; she kinda liked me; she felt good talking to me and I felt good listening to her.
She used to commit mistakes in her work and some were very silly and some were such that she was not aware of that they were mistakes.
I used to shout at her but also cover her up most of the times.
She never used to like any girl around me but I used to pay little attention to what annoyed her most.
This is the time where the words like jealousy, hatred etc were introduced in her otherwise non-complicated life
When she used to call me on phone, I used to remain glued onto the invention of ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL as if there was no tomorrow; even she used to enjoy the sweet nothings....
Then slowly and steadily, this friendship started getting converted and changed the meaning of life and one day. I called her to a BUS STOP and asked her if she had seen KUCH KUCH HOTA HAI
(In fact we all had seen it together, our group of office friends had gone for the movie) she said YES she had seen the movie
Then I asked her what my friends called me. She said they call you RAHUL (that's the screen name of SHAHRUKH in the movie).....
I told her that if I was RAHUL, then "YOU ARE MY ANJALI " , there was a stunned silence from the girl and the moment froze in time , and she held my hand , but did not say YES, she said she needed a day to decide.
I could not sleep in peace that night until the next morning and she said YES.
Now she is mother of my child!
Share your romantic experiences with us! Write in to getahead@rediff.co.in (subject line: 'My love story') along with a photograph of you and your spouse if possible and we'll publish the best entries right here!
Just make sure you include the following information:
Where and how you met your partner
When you shared your feelings for each other
An interesting incident from your wedding
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