Michelle & Sargam in Minneapolis, MN

Michelle met Sargam at a business meeting in Minneapolis, and she didn’t think anything of their encounter. But, when he returned to the city a year later, they went to dinner with some coworkers. It was then that her feelings began to develop. The Bride Michelle Brown, 29, retail consultant The Groom Sargam Patel, 31, president of an electronics accessories company The Date November 1 Sargam invited Michelle to dinner the next night, and they began a long-distance relationship with her living in Minnesota and him in California. While she was visiting Sargam one weekend, they went out for sushi (at the same restaurant where they ate together the first time she visited him in Los Angeles). They returned to his condo, and when she opened the door, she was shocked to find rose petals, candles and a proposal from Sargam.