Worth the wait

From playground swings to a petal-strewn paradise, Zara Peerzada and Sarwan Saleh's childhood love story culminated in a wedding that swapped the transience of trends in favour of the transcendence of tradition

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A wishing tree festooned with gilded gota ribbons lords over a family courtyard as the bride makes her way down a bougainvillea-laden aisle to take her vows in the same place that her mother uttered hers around five decades ago. The evening air is tinged with nostalgia as guests linger around long-forgotten nooks to reminisce over their favourite childhood memories of the couple-memories that incidentally play the starring role in Zara Peerzada and Sarwan Saleh's love story as kindergarten sweethearts.