A UNION OF CULTURES

When Czech native Karolina Ebel and techie Chaitanya Aluru met, it was the beautiful culmination of two distinct worlds. From a California proposal to a Prague wedding, we trace their story.

- By SONAM POLADIA

HOW WE MET

“Chaitanya and I met through a dating app in New York. What started as a simple conversation on a rainy day quickly turned into something more. There was an ease to it — no big drama, just a real connection.”

THE NEXT STEP

“Chaitanya proposed two weeks before our formal engagement, on a cliffside near Carmel-by-the-Sea in California, one of my favourite spots. He had written a heartfelt note and tucked it into a bouquet of roses. That note stayed with me and eventually became the inspiration for my wedding veil, which was embroidered with the words, ‘In every bunch, there's one who stands out, and you are that one.”