Sheraton Tysons Corner Tysons VA Hindu Wedding Drishti Rajan Groom Sibling

Relive the Groom Sibling from Drishti and Rajan’s Hindu Wedding held at Sheraton Tysons Corner Tysons VA.

Special thanks to our vendors:

Pre-Ceremony Venue: Manassas Park Community Center Manassas Park VA
Hindu Wedding Venue: Sheraton Tysons Corner Tysons VA
Event Venue: Sheraton Tysons Corner Tysons VA
DJ & Entertainment: DJ Vik
Makeup Artist: Suman Khosla
Wedding Decorator: Liz Walters

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Transcription:

Groom Sibling: today we officially add our new sister Trish that way. So this evening we like to take this opportunity Thio share with you guys. How are siblings or group works and what makes our sibling groups so special tonight? So it started back in 1991 and it was just the two of us. Me and my little brother Rajan. And when I try to think about our relationship all the way back then all I can remember is us playing in the most creative ways. So I’m sure all of you know now Rajan loves Batman. He loved it then and he loves it now. So he would always wear these Batman pajamas with like a cape and he like run like And then you’d have like a Batman action figure Billie Like singing the theme song Not a nun. And enough. No no no no. If he’s super enthusiastic about it I mean I’m not into a bat Manda and and but like we always have to play together. So we would add a twist together and seeing Nana Nana Nana Nana Nana! Nana! Barbie! And that way we always made it work together because we always had to play together. We’re each other’s buddies and we’re always there for each other no matter what the situation was. And I mean no matter what the situation. So I have a really good story to tell to depict this. And it’s actually a kind of forbidden story because I used to tell it to Rajan or use totality Rajan’s friends to tease him. And then he gets so mad that Mommy was taking me. Where are you? You can’t say this story anymore ever. But I thought since it’s a special occasion if I got their permission that I could share it with everyone and I did So the story goes when Rajan was a toddler he learned to go to the bathroom or kind of because the last part of the process he would he would get stuck so he’d be in the bathroom by himself and he yellow Miram here. Can you help me? Me help Help be and I would go to his aid for some reason. But today I don’t say it out of spite or to embarrass him. I say out of love because I see it now just how connected we were and how much we needed each other no matter what the situation was. And when we grew older nothing really changed. Were always there no matter what. Sometimes my dad would tell us like you know you guys need to open up your group a little Let some other people in re being too exclusive. But I don’t know we just always had so much fun together. We never really needed a big group of friends. Um of course like any siblings we had arguments but none of that really stuck out as much as us just laughing and giggling and goofing around with each other. So by now I’m sure you guys know I love my siblings Rajan and Mika and I’m deeply grateful for having them in my life in our relationship. But alongside that I have a little insecurity of getting a little too distant. Trunk him because of all these life changes and these busy lives that we lead rate it’s natural. The Rajan um this past rock Shevin then wrote me a letter and he wrote something in that letter that put my mind to ease. It was he wrote This change will make us even closer. If that’s possible thes special additions and hands are bond. Our foundation will lead us to a place where we continue to be there for each other picking up new movie quotes songs to sing and goofy habits along the way. So that’s me and my brother Rajan in seven years later I come along and every since then I I got the feeling that we’re not only just siblings like brother and sister were more friends more than just brother and sister in our similar passions and likes and taste in movies and music just made that relationship and friendship even stronger. So I remember a phase when growing up be the was kind of becoming too mature and growing up so she wouldn’t be ableto partake in my silly little shenanigans that I’d pull cause I was eight years younger than her. And so now I realize that I was lucky to have vaginal. He’s company because I need time. I’d want toe do something goofy. I any childish moment. He’d be there with me as his picture comptel and there’s another one particular memory I remember very vividly. It was we were at home one random Friday night and Roger we had a friend over and I was in the mood to play my favorite toy Polly Pockets. And um but I always like playing with someone’s I don’t want to play alone. So I was thinking my head I want to go play with Rajan B. And I knew he had a friend over So I like tentatively went to his room. And I was like Um lmagine we will you please Polly pockets with me? And he’s like Oh sorry may I have a friend over? Maybe later. And I’m like Okay and kind of hoping we walk away angle play by myself and like the whole lawyers something and then like a few minutes later gradually comes out and he just sits down and starts playing with Polly pockets with me and dressing them taking them to the mall to get different foods and things. So um gradually has this way about him where he can pick up on other people’s emotions whether they’re good or if they’re feeling sad or lonely or a little down or anything like that and he’ll actively go to try to make the situation better and It’s something that I’ve always really appreciated and something that I’m gonna miss having around. And then I came into the picture in 2006. No one really knows how I got there but now here I am. So uh over the years my relationship with Rajan has gone through many phases and evolutions. Remember way in the beginning Gradient even played the protective brother Roland Mirror and I were just becoming good friends. And that was before he got swollen too. So imagine that uh it just developed into a natural sort of friendship. Um it started out by doing Endless Garba in Columbus. And then there were many other outings trips get togethers. But I remember the multiple trips that we took two Kings Island and Cedar Point with so many different people. And that brought his difficult. That brought us closer together for sure. Then when I first joined the family family I know Raj in particular didn’t enjoy playing football or watching football but he knew I liked it. So whenever I was over he would always go out of his way to suggest that all you wanna watch this or you want to go play football star throw the ball outside and like I loved it obviously because I was like Oh yeah sure because these two weren’t gonna do it with me. So I always appreciated that. And another shining quality that I know everybody here has felt from Rajan. Is that how genuinely nice he is? If you know me. You know I have a few quirks and I opened myself up to getting teased and I’m okay with it so that’s fine. But um I’ve noticed on multiple occasions that any time someone may say something to me or make a joke Gradient always brings up something positive and defends me and they always has my back. So he’s a good bro. I remember before when we were married Meera asked me one time who my best friends were. I think this is when we were planning for the bachelor party or whatnot. But um so I started listing off. I said I don’t have I don’t have one best friend. I have multiple. Not as many as Christie. Bye. So I started listening off my best friends and then I said Rajan obviously because at that point I felt like a best friend and she was surprised and I Then I realized that I’m so lucky that Rajan became my brother in law. But now I’m even luckier that he’s my best friend and he’s also basically become a re a little brother to me. So I’m so grateful for this relationship that we’ve developed. And then because of goldfish we were lucky also to gain to new siblings the Stephen and D judgy. And then um we quickly quickly grew to nine because just last year we heard about there she and her two brothers. So now we grew from suit and nine siblings and there’s still room for one more. So when gradually first told us about their see all three of us had the same three immediate questions. The first thing is there she like garb. The second question that we asked Rajan was does thirsty like Disney and the third is she into movies. So for Garba gradually told me or told us that yeah she likes garb. I mean she won’t go like hard core like us three but I mean later we found out that her definition of doing Garba was getting all dressed up in girlie and then taking pictures of Oliver friends. But you know we weren’t too worried. We know she’s got the moves. We just gotta pull her in a little bit like we do with this one. So she’ll dance and do Garbo with us. Hey on then for the second question about Disney she said I mean yeah I guess it’s not like I don’t like it. But then later we found out that her true feelings were that What’s the big deal about Disney? Why is this so important to them? So we as a family love Disney so much and we just want to share with their see why we d’oh. So over the past year we’ve been we took a week long vacation to Disney World. We’ve been watching the classic movies and getting up to date with all the lingo. And when we say lingo we know the scripts so well that US three she’s rolling her eyes. Us three came up with a game where we would say a quote. I would say a quote and then gradient Omega would guess which movie it’s from and that person whoever guests would win. So instead of the regular in a reception. Shoe couple gains. We thought that we would play the cloaking here. Uh and don’t worry there’s still we’ve used these quotes in front of you numerous times but you should remember her Them and Roger knows every Disney quote so that wouldn’t be fair. We’re going to give him Hindi Bollywood quotes. Who guess so? For the game? No help from the audience to And then don’t you? You too.