On the final night of their joint bachelor-bachelorette party in Tulum, with 30 of their closest friends gathered for dinner, Anwesha Banerjee and Omkar Joshi shared what they had been holding onto for months: they were already married.
In 2024, a year before their wedding in Jaipur, Banerjee and Joshi had stood beneath Bethesda Terrace in Central Park with their parents, their mini goldendoodle Rocky and a close friend as officiant, and promised forever in private. The wedding in Jaipur wasn’t about legality as much as it was about community, bringing together the people who had shaped their nearly 13-year-long relationship. They would later joke that they got “married married” exactly one year later, on October 30, 2025, with a larger celebration in Rajasthan.
They met in 2011 in a study hall at their New Jersey high school—Joshi in 10th grade, Banerjee in 9th. She walked in on her first day, they started talking and never quite stopped. “If you know Anwesha, you know she loves talking,” Joshi says. She laughs. “He’s truly no less.” Seated in front of each other again in choir, their friendship deepened. In 2013, he sang “She Will Be Loved” to ask her to be his girlfriend. It was the first of many proposals, as they describe it. They dated for ten years before getting engaged.
In June 2023, Joshi proposed in Lake Como after coordinating parents and 17 friends in what he calls a “top-secret mission.” The date—the summer solstice—fell one day before his late brother Savit’s birthday. “His name translates to the sun,” Joshi says. “I believed that was the best way to have him included.” Months later, Banerjee proposed in Paris, returning to the Carette café, a place tied to a London–Paris trip they had once cut short after Savit’s passing. Inside a Golden Snitch-shaped box was a platinum band engraved with the same phrase as her ring: “a&f, babu”—always and forever. “I asked him if he would do me the honour of spending the rest of his life with me, too,” she says.
Jaipur felt like the right setting for the next chapter. Though both were raised in New Jersey, Banerjee’s family is Bengali and Joshi’s Marathi, and they describe the city as a meeting point that allowed both sides of their heritage to stand side by side while inviting their friends from around the world into a fuller understanding of who they are. When they toured the Fairmont with their planner, Imran Qureshi of Weddings by IQ, the decision was made pretty quickly. “The moment we walked in, something just clicked,” they recall.
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