‘WON’T PUT OUR WEDDING ON SOCIAL MEDIA’
Rubina Dilaik and Abhinav Shukla, who will marry on June 21 in Shimla, plan to keep it lowkey
Having known each for over four and a half years now, actors Rubina Dilaik and Abhinav Shukla are set to tie the knot on June 21 in a palace in Shimla. In a chat with us, the soon-to-be bride talks about the wedding preps, the idea behind keeping it low key, their eco-friendly wedding card, and more.
At what point you decided that it’s the right time for marriage?
The decision of taking our relationship to the next step wasn’t based on a right or a wrong time. We just thought that we want to get married and we made things happen.
What was the idea behind your organic wedding card with a sapling? Did you take a cue from Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma?
No, we didn’t know that Virat and Anushka also had this theme; it’s just a coincidence. We wanted something meaningful and eco-friendly. Lavishness is not necessarily defined by mindless use of things that just look beautiful and serve no purpose. Also, we wanted to gift friends a token of appreciation and thanks.
Was it too much of an effort to prepare all these invitations on your own?
Abhinav really believes in doing things on our own. Everyone can spend a lot of money but spending a lot of energy and effort really takes a lot of courage and commitment. And my friend, Keerti Kelkar helped me a lot in putting things together and giving it a beautiful look.
Why are you keeping your wedding a lowkey affair?
A wedding is celebrating each other’s presence with our loved ones. Also, Abhinav always wanted to have a wedding in the mountains or a forest and this palace is lavishly spread in a forest with trees around. So, it’s the perfect setting for us,
Do you plan to share videos and photos from your wedding on social media?
Our wedding, especially the rituals we’re doing with friends and family, that’s absolutely a personal affair. We’d like to keep it that way. We’re not looking at putting them on social media and make it a public affair.
Besides the seven vows, you also plan to exchange seven secret vows. Tell us more about it?
These vows are not to bind or weigh down each other with promises or responsibilities. They are a commitment or reminder to self to be in each other’s life, creating value, cocreating memories and being each other’s strength. And, nothing that we commit to ourselves burdens our partner.
Who all from TV industry are invited?
I’ve got my entire gang joining me for my big day. Keerti will be the maid of honour and then my friends, Surveen Chawla, Tina Kuwajerwala, Ghazala Shaikh, Kamya Punjabi, Meghna Malik, Srishty Rode, Benaf Dadachandji will be there too.