It’s like marrying your best friend: Gaurav Assomull

Sure, destiny rules! Just ask society darlings Gaurav Assomull and Kajal Fabiani whose lives seem peppered with a dash of romance, right timing and style. Having met 10 years ago “as children” and then recently dated for a year to finally decide to get married, fate’s played Cupid alright! For last July, he proposed, admitting to have “no rehearsed speech” at the Albert Hall, London, leaving her so touched that she cried! “Gaurav lied to me and said he had to pick up some tickets for his dad, so I went there with him.

And before I knew it we were both alone inside the Royal Albert Hall and he was down on one knee. I was in absolute shock and began to cry….it was such a memorable day,” she recalls.

“We have grown to be the bestest of friends and knowing each other meant it was easier to break the ice from the start,” starts Gaurav seated at his French-windowed home. So, is it like marrying your best friend? “Yes, indeed,” smiles the bride-to-be.

“We first met in London randomly through our brothers and then when he moved to India a few years ago we started hanging out a lot more as we had common friends.”

The latter also share similar leisure pursuits. “For one, we are both foodies,” says Gaurav. “Yes, eating, travelling and playing cards…we both could live our lives doing this,” she laughs.

With his professional commitment keeping him busy (Gaurav’s working on renewable energy in India) and she’s got her own baby Villa 39, it’s probably not easy juggling preparations for the wedding. “Well, D-Day is next March, so there’s time,” he says.

As Kajal grew up in Spain and Gaurav in England, society’s abuzz with whispers of a location in Europe. “We want a destination wedding, that’s for sure,” he admits, as she joins in, “It’s been tough finding the right venues for each event as we want everything to be perfect. We also want to make it as intimate, as we’d like to know everyone at our wedding, so about 500 people,” she says.