Taleen Vartan & Thomas Nakashian

Manhattan. Taleen and Thomas were friends for a decade before it sparked into something more.

The two met around 2002, when they were in the same friend group.

“We were both always dating other people, so we never really went down that path,” Taleen remembers.

But then, when both were single around 2010, “something sparked.”

For their first date, they went to a jellyfish exhibit in Coney Island, then got fishbowls on the upper West Side and Taleen, 32, who works at the United Nations, showed Thomas photos from a recent trip to Vietnam and Laos.

“That was the first time we’d hung out alone, and for that long,” she says. “It was really cool to see him in a different light.”

Because they already knew each other so well, things became serious quickly.

They became engaged in 2011, during a ski trip to Whistler, British Columbia.

Thomas, 33, an investment banker, took Taleen in a horse carriage to the top of a mountain, where he proposed and they later celebrated with champagne and oysters.

“It was the two of us, it was complete quiet, we could see all the stars,” she remembers. “Just beautiful.”

Their ceremony was at St. Vartan Armenian Cathedral on 34th St., with a reception following at Cipriani Wall Street and after-party at the nearby Andaz Hotel.

The archbishop who married them in the Armenian ceremony, where they both wore crowns to follow tradition, had also married Taleen’s parents.

It was the bride’s birthday, and the groom led the guests in a rendition of “Happy Birthday.”

The couple, who lives near City Hall, went five places for their honeymoon: South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Seychelles and Dubai.

A calm moment after the ceremony is what the bride remembers most.

“I looked at his hand and I saw his ring on it,” she says. “I couldn’t believe it actually happened, and I got to spend my whole life with him.”