The wedding of

Varun and Khushboo

22 to 24 January 2027

Greater Noida

Verinag Srinagar The five rivers Where we met Our first trip The proposal Verinag Srinagar The five rivers

The story

The Jhelum was always headed for Punjab.

The Jhelum rises at Verinag in Kashmir, runs through Srinagar, and becomes one of the five rivers that gave Punjab its name.

Varun and Khushboo took a less direct route. A line or two about how you met goes here.

This January, a family that argues about saunf in rogan josh sits down with one that argues about butter in everything. We’d love you there.

The invitation and ceremonies

With the blessings of their elders,

The Surname family and the Surname family

request the pleasure of your company at the wedding of

Varun and Khushboo

22 to 24 January 2027, Greater Noida

With love from

Our families

Varun’s family

Mother’s name and Father’s name

With the blessings of

  • Grandmother’s name and Grandfather’s name
  • Grandmother’s name and Grandfather’s name (in loving memory)

Khushboo’s family

Mother’s name and Father’s name

With the blessings of

  • Grandmother’s name and Grandfather’s name

marks those we remember with love

Swipe through the invitation, our families, and a card for each ceremony.

The celebrations

Three days of celebrations

marks a Kashmiri custom marks a Punjabi one

  1. 7 pm onwards

    Maenz Raat

    The henna night

    Where
    Umang Hall, Grand Heritage, Greater Noida Directions
    Wear
    Yellows, greens and saffron.
    About this ceremony

    In Kashmiri homes, the women of the family sing wanwun, traditional call-and-response songs, while henna is applied. We’ll have Punjabi boliyan and a dhol too, so there will be plenty of music.

  2. 11 am onwards

    Devgon

    Blessings around the sacred fire

    Where
    Grand Heritage, Greater Noida Directions
    Wear
    Traditional, in soft colours.
    About this ceremony

    A Kashmiri Pandit ceremony held around the sacred fire, where the family prays for the couple and asks for the gods’ blessings before the wedding.

  3. 7 pm onwards

    Cocktail and Dinner

    Drinks, dinner and dancing

    Where
    Aster Hall, Stellar Gymkhana, Greater Noida Directions
    Wear
    Cocktail or Indo-western.
    About this ceremony

    An evening of drinks, dinner and dancing with both families, the night before the wedding.

  4. 12 noon onwards

    Haldi

    Turmeric and blessings

    Where
    Jasmine Lawn, Stellar Gymkhana, Greater Noida Directions
    Wear
    Yellow, in something you don’t mind getting stained.
    About this ceremony

    Family and friends take turns applying turmeric paste to the couple, a tradition meant to bless them and give them a glow before the wedding. Expect a little mess and a lot of laughter.

  5. 5:30 pm

    Sehrabandi

    For Varun’s family and friends

    Where
    Stellar Gymkhana, Greater Noida Directions
    Wear
    Festive.
    About this ceremony

    Varun’s family ties the sehra, a veil of flowers and strings, onto his safa and gives him their blessings before the baraat sets off.

  6. Baraat at 7 pm

    Baraat and Wedding

    The wedding

    Where
    Grand Heritage Resort, Greater Noida Directions
    Wear
    Traditional formal.
    About this ceremony

    The baraat arrives with the dhol. At the milni, the elders of both families greet each other and exchange garlands. Then come the pheras around the sacred fire, followed by posh puja, a Kashmiri tradition where everyone showers the couple with flowers.

The invitation

Getting there

How to reach us

Both venues and the hotel are a few minutes apart in Greater Noida.

Yamuna Delhi Noida Greater Noida DND Flyway Noida–Greater Noida Expressway Yamuna Expressway Pari Chowk DELDelhi airport DXNNoida airport, Jewar Stellar Gymkhana Grand Heritage SAA Hospitality

A sketch, not to scale. Tap a venue to see it.

Grand Heritage Resort

R-4, Sector 20, near City Park, Greater Noida

    Directions

    The Stellar Gymkhana

    R-1, Knowledge Park II, next to India Expo Mart

      Nearest metro: Alpha 1, Aqua Line, about 2 km.

      Directions

      Where you’ll stay

      SAA Hospitality

      Plot 18, Knowledge Park I, Greater Noida

        Rooms for guests not staying at the venue.

        Directions

        Good to know

        Before you pack

        The practical things in one place. If your question isn’t here, ask either of us.

        What should I wear?

        Each ceremony has a note above. In short: colour is encouraged, pherans and phulkaris are both welcome, and wear something washable to the haldi.

        Where should we stay?

        We are holding a block of rooms for guests travelling in. Booking details will be shared with your invitation.

        Which airport should we fly into?

        Delhi airport (DEL) has the most flights. The new Noida International Airport at Jewar (DXN) opened for domestic flights in June 2026 and is usually the shorter drive to both venues.

        What’s the best way to drive from Delhi?

        Take the DND Flyway into Noida, then the Noida–Greater Noida Expressway. It brings you out close to both venues.

        Will there be transport between venues?

        The celebrations are split between Grand Heritage and Stellar Gymkhana, a short drive apart. See Getting there for maps and directions. Transport details will be shared closer to the date.

        Is there a gift registry?

        No registry. Your blessings are plenty. If you would like to give something, a shagun envelope is traditional and entirely optional.

        Who do we call on the day?

        Contact numbers for someone from each family will be shared closer to the date.

        Your reply

        Will you be there?

        Please reply by 31 December 2026 so both families can plan the food, which is a serious undertaking.

        Varun and Khushboo on a sunny street
        Varun and Khushboo out for the evening
        Varun and Khushboo on the night of the proposal
        Varun and Khushboo just after the proposal, showing the ring
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        For Varun and Khushboo

        Design review

        A review tool, not for guests. Switch it off before you share the link by setting SHOW_REVIEW to false near the bottom of the file.

        The previous version is saved as varun-khushboo-wedding-v5.html so you can open both side by side.

        Changelog

        v14A dark cover, photos separated current

        • Changed: The photographs are now separate files in a photos folder, so the page itself is small again. Keep that folder beside the HTML file.
        • Redesigned: The cover is dark, a deep warm brown, with the names in ivory and gold. The photographs are larger and overlap in a row under the names, so there is no empty space around them.
        • Changed: The colour block on each card is taller, giving the date and time more room.
        • Changed: Everything on the back of a card is centred.
        • Fixed: The shikara now appears as the river line reaches it, instead of arriving late.

        v13Your photographs

        • New: Your four photographs are on the cover. Each is cropped to the same upright shape and centred on your faces, so the row lines up cleanly.
        • Desktop: They fan out behind the names, spread wide enough that the names never sit over a face, with a soft glow keeping the text readable.
        • Phones: They sit below the date as a neat row of overlapping prints with white borders, and the arrow moves below them.
        • Also: The same photographs now fill the gallery and the three stops along the Jhelum, replacing the placeholders.

        v12Real mountains, refined cards

        • Redrawn: The mountains are no longer flat zigzags. They now have uneven ridgelines with smaller bumps, shaded faces so the peaks have volume, and soft irregular snow instead of triangles.
        • New: A shikara drifts on the water near Srinagar, with its own reflection, and there are many more chinar leaves scattered across the scene on both desktop and phones.
        • Refined: The cards. The colour block now runs edge to edge with a soft gradient, a gold seam and a shadow beneath it, so it sits above the paper rather than being a flat band. The back has the same colour header, the paper is warmer, and the shadows are deeper.
        • Fixed: Only Grand Heritage could be selected in How to reach us. All three places now respond.

        v11Wider borders, mountains, colour blocks

        • Changed: The shawl stops further out on the cover, so a proper strip of the teal kani weave and the red and gold phulkari stays visible down each side.
        • New: A range of snowy Kashmir mountains spans the full width behind the Jhelum, with the river rising out of them, and the mustard field now reaches both edges.
        • Changed: Each ceremony card has a deep block of its own colour from the top edge down to the dashed divider, holding the date and the time.

        v10Photographs back, cards on red

        • Changed: The cover has your photographs fanned behind the names again, with the clean centred layout.
        • Changed: “Open the invitation” is replaced by a simple round arrow down to the story.
        • Reverted: The ceremony cards are the plain ivory cards with the date stub again. The colour bands are gone.
        • New: The invitation and ceremonies section sits on deep madder red with phulkari borders top and bottom, like the earlier ceremonies section. The dock switches to light text over it.
        • Fixed: The cards no longer scroll inside themselves, and the red “Swipe to see the ceremonies” line is gone.

        v9Back to the cleaner design

        • Reverted: The teal cover, khatamband lattice and postcards from v8 are gone. The cover is the clean, centred v6 layout on almond again, with only the soft colour washes from v7 and a few quiet drifting leaves.
        • Changed: The ceremony cards are the v6 cards, with the same layout and text. Each now carries its ceremony’s colour: a solid band across the top with the date and time, and a matching medallion, title, label and outline.
        • Reverted: How to reach us is back to the earlier light style. There are no tabs: both venues sit beside the map, each listing its ceremonies in neat rows of date, name and time, and SAA Hospitality sits in one slim line underneath as where you’ll stay.
        • Kept from v8: the Swipe chip and stronger nudge, the phone story fixes (no branch, labels clear of the text, Our photos button), and Invitation removed from the dock.

        v8Elegant, colourful, with depth

        • Redesigned: The opening is deep Dal-lake teal with ivory and gold. A fine gold lattice taken from khatamband, the carved walnut ceilings of Kashmir, frames the edges, with a slow glint of light passing across it. The shawl now slides fully away, and the colour washes, boughs and falling leaves are gone.
        • New: Ceremony cards are vertical postcards, each in its own colour: henna green for Maenz Raat, saffron for Devgon, midnight for the cocktail, turmeric for the haldi, rani pink for the Sehrabandi, and wedding red. Each has a stamp with the date, a postmark and a line drawing, and flips to a written side with the details.
        • Changed: Sections now alternate dark and light (teal, paper, sand, teal, paper, teal), and the cards and venues cast real shadows, so the page no longer sits on one flat plane.
        • Restored: The floating “Swipe” chip with the moving hand, on every screen. The deck also glides further towards the next card when it nudges, and nudges once more if nobody has swiped after a few seconds.
        • Fixed: The story on phones. The branch is gone everywhere, and the source at Verinag has a small cluster of chinar leaves instead. The labels sit clear of the text, and phones get an “Our photos” button in place of the photo stops.
        • Changed: “Invitation” is gone from the dock. “Ceremonies” opens the deck at the invitation, and the chapter is now called “The invitation and ceremonies”.
        • Redesigned: How to reach us has no tabs. Both venues and SAA Hospitality (Plot 18, Knowledge Park I) show at once. Each venue lists its ceremonies with day, time and colour, and hovering or tapping a place highlights it on the map and draws the way in.

        v7Colour and leaves in the opening

        • New: Soft washes of colour around the edges of the opening: saffron from the top-left, rose from the bottom-right, with hints of chinar red and Dal-lake teal. They drift slowly, like light through fabric, and stay clear of the names.
        • New: A full chinar bough reaches in from the top-left corner for Kashmir, and a spray of mustard flowers and marigolds rises from the bottom-right for Punjab. Both ease in as the shawl opens and sway gently.
        • Changed: More drifting leaves, at three depths: small soft ones far back, crisp ones in the middle, and a few large, slightly out-of-focus ones drifting in front.

        v6A calmer redesign

        • Redesigned: The opening is one centred invitation: monogram, “The wedding of”, the two names, a single chinar mark, the date, the place and one button. The valance, pompoms, paisley weave, photo prints and the three pills are gone, and the textile borders are now a slim frame.
        • Moved: The photos left the opening, where they only competed with the names. They now sit along the river as three moments on your route: Where we met, Our first trip and The proposal. Tap one to open the gallery.
        • Redesigned: The Jhelum runs across the whole story screen, around and behind the words, from a chinar bough at the top to the mustard fields along the bottom. The bough is redrawn so every leaf hangs from its own twig.
        • New: Every card in the deck flips. The front has the essentials, and the back has the description, where, what to wear and directions. The invitation’s back holds your families.
        • Changed: The knots under the dashed line are replaced by a plain label and count (“Maenz Raat, Fri 22, 2 of 7”), a progress bar, arrows on every screen size, and “Swipe to see the ceremonies” until the first swipe.
        • Removed: The decoration switcher and the v1/v2 ceremonies comparison. v5 is kept as a separate file instead.

        v5New decorations, a cleaner deck

        • New: Three alternatives to the marigold toran, switchable above under “Opening decoration”: a phulkari valance with pompoms (the new default), hanging brass lanterns with a warm flicker, and a chinar bough with a mustard-and-marigold spray in the corners. The toran is still there to compare.
        • Changed: The Friday / Saturday / Sunday pills and the dots under the deck are replaced by one stitched thread, with a knot for every card grouped under Invitation, Fri 22, Sat 23 and Sun 24. Tap a knot or a day to jump there.
        • Changed: Each ceremony card opens with a ticket-stub header: the date in large numerals on the left, the time on the right, and a perforated line with notches underneath.
        • Changed: The separate Kashmiri and Punjabi key is gone. Each card now says “A Kashmiri custom” or “A Punjabi custom” under its name.
        • Changed: “Add my ceremonies to my calendar” sits on the invitation card itself, so there’s no toolbar above the deck any more.
        • New: Swipe cues. The invitation card says “Swipe for our families and the ceremonies” with moving arrows, the deck nudges sideways once after it deals in, and on desktop a small “Swipe” chip shows until the first swipe.

        v4Festive, one screen at a time

        • New: Every section now fits exactly one screen, on desktop and phones, including small ones. One flick moves you to the next section, whether you use a mouse wheel, a trackpad, a swipe or the arrow keys. Trackpad momentum can’t skip two sections at once.
        • New: A marigold toran with mango leaves drops in across the top of the opening once the shawl opens, and its strings sway gently. A faint paisley weave sits behind the names.
        • Changed: The shawl now opens with the first flick, tap or key press, or by itself after about four seconds, instead of needing a long scroll. The page stays put until it opens.
        • Fixed: Returning visitors lost the kani and phulkari borders, which made the opening look plain. They now always frame it.
        • Changed: The family names have their own card in the deck, right after the invitation, so neither card is cramped. On short screens, ceremony descriptions show the first lines with “Read more”.
        • Changed: Good to know is its own screen, and the reply screen now ends with the monogram footer. The story text is shorter so it fits.
        • Fixed: An old spacing rule made every section stop 64px too low when jumping between them.

        v3The invitation deck

        • Changed: There’s no separate ceremonies section any more. The ceremony cards now sit in the same swipeable deck as the family invitation, like the inserts that come inside an Indian wedding card.
        • New: The deck opens on the family invitation. Swiping moves on to one card per ceremony, and the first dot is a small diamond so guests can always find their way back to the invitation.
        • Changed: The day tabs, colour key and calendar button now sit above the deck. “See the ceremonies” links anywhere on the site jump straight to the first ceremony card.
        • Changed: Chapters renumber themselves, so the site now reads 1 The story, 2 The invitation, 3 Getting there, 4 Your reply.
        • Changed: The couple photos are now large prints that fan out across the whole opening in a wide arc, sized separately for desktop and phones. A soft veil and a glow around the names keep everything readable.

        v2Ceremony cards

        • New: Ceremonies appear as invitation-style cards, one per ceremony, in the same cream-and-gold style as the family invitation.
        • New: Guests swipe through the cards sideways. On desktop they can also drag, scroll, or use the arrow keys, with arrow buttons and dots underneath.
        • Animation: The cards deal in from the right when the section comes into view, then tilt gently as they pass through the centre.
        • Changed: The day tabs jump to that day’s first card and follow along as you swipe.
        • Changed: Each card shows the full ceremony description, so there’s no “About this ceremony” link to tap.
        • New: This review panel, with a switch to compare against v1.

        v1Timeline and liquid glass

        • Ceremonies as a vertical timeline, one day at a time, with “About this ceremony” to expand.
        • Liquid glass dock on every screen size, and glass tabs with a sliding highlight.
        • Photos fan out behind the names in the opening.
        • Families introduced as a formal invitation card.
        • Five numbered chapters, with Good to know folded into Getting there.

        Will you be there?

        Please reply by 31 December 2026.

        Can you come?
        Which ceremonies will you attend?
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