A knotty affair on V-Day

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This Valentine’s Day is a special one for city-based designer Sakshee Pradhan, daughter of politician and MP Ashok Kumar Pradhan, who will be marrying her long time sweetheart Abhishek Nadkarni, a commercial pilot from Mumbai, in the capital. According to sources the wedding will be a star-studded affair where Bollywood celebrities like Jitendra, Hema Malini, Vivek Oberoi, Sonu Nigam, Mahima Chaudhary, Farrokh Chothia, Andre Timmins, Madhur Bhandarkar, Aruna Irani along with politicians from Delhi and Mumbai are likely to be present.
The wedding will take place in a private bungalow at Sunhairi Bagh Road. The 25-year-old designer and founder of fashion label Schon, confesses that as her big day drew near, she could feel butterflies in her stomach. “There are too many things on my mind. My fiancé thinks I’ll get cold feet at the last minute and run away,” she quips.
The decor for the event will be done by Geeta Samuel, and the elaborate wedding celebration will include three main functions. The festivities started yesterday (mehendi) and will go on till February 14 with the cocktail and sangeet slated for today and wedding for tomorrow.
For the wedding, Sakshee will be wearing a Tarun Tahiliani ensemble. She says, “It’s a wedding lehenga that has sunset gradation and the colours flow from a peach orange to maroon. The rest of the dresses in the trousseau are done by dear friend Suneet Varma. For mehendi and sangeet ceremony Suneet has given me an off-white gold sharara with Kashmiri embroidery and pearl work. For the cocktail do, I’ll be wearing a cocktail gown from my own label.”
Abhishek and Sakshee decided to choose this special date for the wedding as it is the day their love story began eight years ago. Sakshee mentions, “Abhishek proposed to me on February 7 and after one week I said yes, so this is a very special day for both of us. Also, our panditji told us that Basant Panchami falls around that time so as per the Hindu calendar, it is a very auspicious date.”