Couples press pause on grand wedding plans, most opt to postpone indefinitely

TNN | Updated: May 3, 2020, 10:26 IST

Meeta Ramnani and her fiancé Hitesh Godhwani wore their wedding attire and made a TikTok video from their separate homes

Meeta Ramnani and her fiancé Hitesh Godhwani wore their wedding attire and made a TikTok video from their sepa...Read More

PUNE: Meeta Ramnani, a research writer living in Pimpri, and London-based chartered accountant Hitesh Godhwani were to get married on April 16. Instead, they wore their wedding attire and made a TikTok video from their separate homes.
The coronavirus pandemic left several would-be couples like Meeta and Hitesh with no choice but to postpone their wedding celebrations.
“We planned a big fat wedding in Jodhpur. My fiance was supposed to fly down from the UK about two weeks before the wedding but when the lockdown was announced on April 14, we realized that there was no way we could go ahead with our wedding plans,” said Ramnani.
Soni Singh, a marketing professional from Aundh, whose wedding was scheduled for April 28 with Aman Sharma, who works for his family’s textile business in Chandigarh, has been forced to postpone their wedding too.
“We were going to get married in Delhi and we had sent invites to over 1,000 people. On April 14, when the lockdown was extended till May 3, we informed everyone on the guest list that the wedding had been postponed indefinitely,” she said.
“We had booked everything from the entertainment to the catering, venue and decor. We did not get a refund from them, but the advance can be redeemed whenever we have the wedding. I don’t know if we will be able to have a big wedding later in the year or whether only a limited number of people will be allowed to attend the functions,” Singh added.