Neither of us are sure when and how Cupid launched the proverbial arrow. Our school friends would say that we were the most unimaginable couple – to an extent, it may be the constrained imagination of our beloved friends, but there is certainly some element of realism to it. Mitsi (for the uninitiated, that is Urvi’s loving epithet for Sumeet) has always been an introvert while Urvi’s glib disposition is rivaled by very few… The only common thread between the two of us is that we both have more guy friends than girl friends – Urvi’s by choice, Mitsi’s by lack of!

For 3 years after graduating from The Army Public School, we barely saw each other. Sumeet moved to Pune for his college and Urvi stayed on in Delhi, pretending to immerse herself in the faculty of higher education.

After graduation, Sumeet moved to Delhi for work and we ended up spending time together in the company of common friends. But it was when both of us started our post-graduate MBA program at SIMS in Pune that we started hanging out a lot more together, many times without the company of common friends…

SIMS is popularly known as Symbiosis Institute of Matri-mournial Services for good reason… this is where our friendship blossomed and the love story began – singing around the trees suddenly started to make a whole lot of sense and everything else took a back seat (including us!!!)

From being two ends of a pole, we became the most obvious couple in SIMS. Apparently everyone could see the chemistry(!!!) except the two of us...We were with each other 24/7, together on all the bike rides, having all our meals together, sharing the short stories of our lives with each other, not knowing that we were writing a fable of our own. Waving outside of classroom windows, passing friendly notes to each other, talking on the phone for hours when we were not together – it was an inevitable slide from friendship to courtship.

SIMS ended and we both got placed in two different cities...Bangalore and Mumbai were far and we were so used to being with each other that we hated being apart...we knew we were not just any MBA couple and that this was definitely a more meaningful relationship...distance did not drive us apart but infact it brought us closer and made us realize how badly we wanted to be with each other. After thwarting some thinly disguised attempts by the father of the bride to find a suitable boy, we managed to get everyone on the Urvi-Sumeet band wagon… and there is no jumping off now!

12th December 09 is when we get married and start our lives together...