A Cultural Wedding in Pittsburgh, PA

After meeting through some mutual friends, Raghuveer and Adrianna were nothing more than pals -- until Raghu left Pennsylvania to visit family in India. “I missed him so much, I knew my feelings had progressed past ‘just friends,’” says Adrianna. Luckily, the feeling was mutual, and the two started dating. The Bride Adrianna Gilkey, 27, teacher The Groom Raghuveer Vallabhaneni, 33, surgery resident The Date November 15 Raghu and Adrianna often talked about getting married during their two-year relationship; after all, they needed plenty of time to work out the logistics of melding Hindu and Catholic traditions when they got hitched. Still, Adrianna was taken completely by surprise when Raghu woke her up from a nap one day to ask her to marry him. “We’ve always been homebodies who love our lazy days together, so the proposal was perfect,” says Adrianna.