Recently, Sonakshi Sinha and husband

Zaheer Iqbal

were seen taking part in the India Day Parade in New York. Dressed in colours of our National Flag, the duo definitely made the country proud, thousands of miles away. While Sona wore a white salwar kameez, she donned a saffron dupatta, and accessorised her desi look with green bangles. On the other hand, Zaheer looked dapper in an ethnic ensemble.

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Zaheer and Sonakshi got married on June 23 in Mumbai. Later, in a exclusive chat with Bombay Times, the duo opened up on their intimate, yet high on love ceremony. Sona said, “It’s just the way we wanted it. And that’s just us, that is the kind of people we are, and we wanted our

wedding

day to reflect us. Right from sending out the invite, which a friend of ours quickly made for us, to the wedding afterparty – we wanted it to be chilled out. We didn’t want to have the whole rigmarole of multiple functions, and we were sure we wanted our wedding to be one big party. So, that is what it was – one day of having fun where everyone who truly loves us showed up to celebrate us.”

Talking about how the lovebirds met, Zaheer said, “The first time we met was at Salman bhai’s (Salman Khan) house. And strangely, we were both present at Salman bhai’s birthday parties (at his farm and Mumbai home, Galaxy) several times since 2013, but our paths never crossed. I didn’t know she was there, and she didn’t know that I existed. Then finally, we met at Galaxy one evening, when a few of us just chilled together, and that was our first interaction. But the first time we really spent a lot of time with each other was on June 23, 2017 (hence, we chose that date for our wedding). There was a screening of Tubelight and an afterparty, where we ended up spending five hours together. We kept chatting, and suddenly, we turned around and we were like…where did everyone else go? We knew that day there was something special here.”

Talking about her parents at the ceremony, Sonakshi said, “Both mom and dad were very emotional. Dad just appears strong about it, but from within, he’s a softie. He was standing right next to me, and I knew that he was feeling very emotional, so I held on to him and told him, don’t worry, I’m not going anywhere (her eyes swell up as she says this). My mom broke down during the wedding when she realised that I was actually going to be moving out of the house. Now, we visit them very often, in fact, I speak to my mom a lot more now, at least twice a day.”