Big wedding leads to love affair with NZ
It was not only the much-talked about Chicago-based groom Vikram Aditya Kumar who fell in love with God's own country and its amazing beauty (queen) but there was another celebrity couple at the wedding who was absolutely smitten by New Zealand and have promised to come back soon.
Not many know that the internationally acclaimed actor Kabir Bedi's son, Adam Bedi and his wife Nisha Harale (ex-Miss Mumbai), compere/hostess for the Pooja Chitgopekar-Vikram Aditya Kumar wedding that made headlines, (and even had NDTV fly down from India to cover the shaadi for their weekly show The Big Fat Indian Wedding) were there to help with the organisation as well.
In fact the much-in-the-news couple, Adam and Nisha Bedi who run Niche Entertainment, fell literally head-over-heels in love with New Zealand. They wanted to make the most of their trip here, which is probably why at the last minute they decided to go bungee-jumping on their way back to the airport.
The blue-eyed Adam Bedi who loves adventure, revealed that he's worked with production houses in the US (Ugly Betty included) and in India, and has done a couple of films, but most of all he enjoys working along with his wife as a director of events with major brands in India.
The young couple worked in tandem with David Hayward of New Zealand's biggest event management company, The Orange Group who was absolutely stoked by the scale of Indian weddings and the concept of a baraat, mehendi ceremony, sangeet, bidaai – add to it the bhangra pop star Daler Mehndi whose beat everyone happily danced to.
So while The Orange Group tried to arrange for lions and cheetah cubs (which they are known for as they have done an earlier event for a builder with the wild side making a prominent appearance) and other logistics, Adam and Nisha worked on the shehanai, qawwalis, shadow play and were the overall cultural event directors.
Soni Mudalia, the wedding theme specialist, who has been in the wedding industry for the last eight years, made sure that she created the right atmosphere and decor to go with ten events packed in three days at the big Indian wedding orchestrated by Vikram's tycoon father Shalabh Kumar, the Chicago-based electronics millionaire of Autotech Viktron Group – a Bangalore-based world leader in computer circuit board equipment.
Now who would have thought that after all the elaborate celebrations at different venues, including the flight of nine helicopters in a V formation, the happy groom was overheard admitting to one of his friends that he really didn't mind a small affair – like getting married on the beach with a handful of friends. Except that his doting dad had been dreaming of this grand wedding for the past 22 years!
It was not only the much-talked about Chicago-based groom Vikram Aditya Kumar who fell in love with God's own country and its amazing beauty (queen) but there was another celebrity couple at the wedding who was absolutely smitten by New Zealand and have promised to come back soon.
Not many know...
It was not only the much-talked about Chicago-based groom Vikram Aditya Kumar who fell in love with God's own country and its amazing beauty (queen) but there was another celebrity couple at the wedding who was absolutely smitten by New Zealand and have promised to come back soon.
Not many know that the internationally acclaimed actor Kabir Bedi's son, Adam Bedi and his wife Nisha Harale (ex-Miss Mumbai), compere/hostess for the Pooja Chitgopekar-Vikram Aditya Kumar wedding that made headlines, (and even had NDTV fly down from India to cover the shaadi for their weekly show The Big Fat Indian Wedding) were there to help with the organisation as well.
In fact the much-in-the-news couple, Adam and Nisha Bedi who run Niche Entertainment, fell literally head-over-heels in love with New Zealand. They wanted to make the most of their trip here, which is probably why at the last minute they decided to go bungee-jumping on their way back to the airport.
The blue-eyed Adam Bedi who loves adventure, revealed that he's worked with production houses in the US (Ugly Betty included) and in India, and has done a couple of films, but most of all he enjoys working along with his wife as a director of events with major brands in India.
The young couple worked in tandem with David Hayward of New Zealand's biggest event management company, The Orange Group who was absolutely stoked by the scale of Indian weddings and the concept of a baraat, mehendi ceremony, sangeet, bidaai – add to it the bhangra pop star Daler Mehndi whose beat everyone happily danced to.
So while The Orange Group tried to arrange for lions and cheetah cubs (which they are known for as they have done an earlier event for a builder with the wild side making a prominent appearance) and other logistics, Adam and Nisha worked on the shehanai, qawwalis, shadow play and were the overall cultural event directors.
Soni Mudalia, the wedding theme specialist, who has been in the wedding industry for the last eight years, made sure that she created the right atmosphere and decor to go with ten events packed in three days at the big Indian wedding orchestrated by Vikram's tycoon father Shalabh Kumar, the Chicago-based electronics millionaire of Autotech Viktron Group – a Bangalore-based world leader in computer circuit board equipment.
Now who would have thought that after all the elaborate celebrations at different venues, including the flight of nine helicopters in a V formation, the happy groom was overheard admitting to one of his friends that he really didn't mind a small affair – like getting married on the beach with a handful of friends. Except that his doting dad had been dreaming of this grand wedding for the past 22 years!
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