Congrats, Carrie and Sujeet!
By Never teh BrideI read about a very special wedding in a recent issue of Time Magazine and wanted to offer my heartiest congratulations to Carolyn Bergeron and Sujeet Desai. With all the celebrity divorce and the cheating hearts and other wedding-related BS we are subjected to on a daily basis, it’s nice to see something positive in the news for a change.
Bergeron and Desai both live with Down Syndrome and found themselves moving through adulthoods that were rich with activity but lonely. That is, until they found each other.
Bergeron and Desai met at [a National Down Syndrome Congress session] two years ago. (”I told my mom I wanted to date her,” Desai recalls. “I was shy. I couldn’t say anything, so Mom helped.”)
With help from their families, who live about 90 minutes apart in upstate New York, the couple began dating. At a Valentine’s Day party, “I had my eyes on her all the time,” Sujeet recalls. Later that night, “I started to kiss her. She loved it!”
The happy couple began this new phase of their lives with a traditional Hindu ceremony in which prayers were offered to the goddess Parvati, and Bergeron and Desai performed the ritual of Saptapadi. Following the ceremony, they cut a rug, Indian style. A week later, the newlyweds enjoyed a Western ceremony in upstate New York.
Check out the pics here. I can’t get over that gorgeous sari!
July 20th, 2006 at 3:55 pm
I’d say this couple had two lovely weddings. And yes, that sari is gorgeous!
Best wishes to the happy pair!
July 20th, 2006 at 6:39 pm
Mazel Tov!
July 20th, 2006 at 8:10 pm
I’ve known a few people that have doubled up on weddings in order to honor two traditions, Twistie. I think it’s so cool.
July 20th, 2006 at 9:26 pm
Thank you so much for sharing that Never teh Bride! It brought a tear to my eye, they looks so happy together!
July 21st, 2006 at 12:00 am
That’s wonderful! I’m really happy for the two. May they have a long and happy life together.
July 21st, 2006 at 3:48 am
They look so happy!
Her white wedding gown is very flattering also.
July 21st, 2006 at 11:42 am
They look very happy and hopefully have a long and happy life together. The pictures are very sweet.
July 21st, 2006 at 11:56 am
Thanks for sharing this! My younger brother has Down’s — he’s 22 now — and I know he would love to have a girlfriend. I think he is sometimes really frustrated with his situation as he sees me planning my wedding. I don’t know if marriage is in the cards for him, especially since he isn’t as high-functioning as this couple, but this story offers a kind of hope.
July 21st, 2006 at 8:06 pm
What a wonderfully happy couple! Blessings and joy to them always.
July 26th, 2006 at 2:53 am
Darn! Now you made me cry! What a lovely couple!