Payal and Mukul on the stage, 10 May 2026

We got married

Payal&Mukul

10 MAY 2026

Hathras, Uttar Pradesh. Four days, one very long and very good week.

The rest of it

From both of us

✦

Thank you for being there

We spent the better part of a year planning four days, and then the four days went past in about an hour. What we remember is not the schedule. It is the people who travelled a long way to get there, who danced considerably longer than they had planned to, who stayed up through the phere and were somehow upright again for the vidaai.

A wedding is really just a room full of people who decided your day was worth rearranging theirs for. We have not stopped thinking about that.

We have been going back through the photographs ever since. This is where we are keeping them.

Payal & Mukul

Moving pictures

The films

Shot by people far more talented than either of us.

Start here if you only watch one

The wedding trailer

10 May 2026

The full film

The pre-wedding film

Krishna-Radha & Dekho Naseeb se, shot in Lucknow

8 to 11 May 2026

How the days went

  1. 8 May

    Friday
    • Tilak

      Where it formally began

    • God & Engagement

      Rings, and the first proper look at each other

  2. 9 May

    Saturday
    • Haldi

      Turmeric, cold water, no dignity left by noon

    • Bhaat

      The maternal side taking their turn

    • Sangeet

      Everyone had a routine. Some had rehearsed

  3. 10 May

    Sunday
    • Ghudchadi & Baraat

      The procession, the horse, the dancing in the road

    • Jaimala & Phere

      The garlands, then seven rounds under the open sky

  4. 11 May

    Monday
    • Vidaai

      Seven in the morning. Nobody was ready for it