Naresh and Avani met on the dating app Coffee Meets Bagel. Their first date consisted of a shared, vegetarian Thai dinner at Thai Prime next to the hotel where their wedding is taking place. They then enjoyed a really fun night out in Tampa Bay’s SoHo district (where the wedding after-party will be) that lasted into the wee hours of the morning. In total, they ended up visiting seven or eight different places on that first night.

Their second date was the very next day at the Laxmi Narayan Mandir, where Naresh has been visiting every Sunday for yoga, meditation, and prayers.

Their third date was the next day after that, at P.F. Chang's for dinner.

Weeks before the proposal day, Naresh’s friend Santosh Govindaraju sent an email invitation for his birthday party at the top of the Aloft hotel in downtown Tampa Bay. Coincidentally, on the same day as the party, a different friend of the couple, Michele Renee - who runs a hair and makeup studio - invited Avani to participate as an "Indian model" during training for her new artists. Naresh and Avani decided to meet at the Aloft hotel for the birthday after Avani's beauty session.

On her way to the hotel, Avani received a call from Naresh telling her he had just gotten to the birthday and that a guy at the entrance would lead her to a special location for the occasion. When she arrived at the front, she found it odd to be met by a photographer. She followed the photographer up to the top floor of the hotel.

As soon as Avani opened the door to the penthouse, she knew there was no birthday party. The room was filled with red balloons, hearts, roses, candles and her favorite Ferrero Rocher chocolates.

The photographer had Avani sit down to watch a video on the TV filled with sweet messages recorded by their families and photos of the couple together. Halfway through the video, she was confused why she was watching this alone while the photographer was snapping pictures of her reactions. She legitimately thought Naresh was late to his own proposal. She couldn't even concentrate on the video because she kept gazing around the penthouse for him... but at the end of the video, there was Naresh, telling Avani to come out to the balcony.

Avani followed a trail of roses from the TV couch to the balcony. Another pathway outside led her to Naresh, who was on one knee in a heart shaped bed of petals bordered by candles. He said a few words about how it had been exactly 364 days from the day they first met and how his life had completely changed for the better. It was such a sweet and thoughtful proposal, and of course Avani said YES!

But it didn't end there...

After an immediate photo session with the photographer around Tampa's Riverwalk, the couple returned to the penthouse, where about 30 of their close family and friends secretly gathered for a surprise engagement celebration! This was actually more of a surprise than the proposal!!! Some of their family drove or flew in from out of town. Other friends FaceTimed into the event. It was an eventful night of dinner, drinks, dessert, and love.

Everyone celebrated the night and ended up at the hotel bar downstairs, which was blocked off for the group's party.

Naresh, his parents, and Avani then spent the rest of the weekend in Orlando at a resort near Disney to keep the festivities going.

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