We're engaged! If you're reading this, you probably know that.

We are in the very early stages of planning, but here's what we can tell you: It will be fun. There will be an emphasis on laughter and joy and a de-emphasis on impressing you with the latest thing or the most expensive option. We hope to pull it off with a bit of class, but it's going to be our kind of class. The ceremony will incorporate some Hindu traditions and some of my traditions, from wherever I've gleaned them along the path, and some things that I'm sure will have elements of both. The bride will not wear white. The groom will not be wearing a tux. The bride WILL be hula hooping on the beach at some point. There will be color. There will be music, some provided by the amazing technology of ipods, some provided by friends and family. We hope you'll join us for music making and dancing. It doesn't have to be "good" dancing. We enjoy a good waltz, and we enjoy utter crazyness on the dance floor. There will likely be bad puns. There will be the most awesome maid of honor speech you've ever heard. There will be chocolate. There will be cultural mishmash. There will be joy.

We hope you can join us!

P.S. A note about "nerdlove" Dev and I are both Nerds. We define that as "anyone who is incredibly passionate about knowledge in some form" You can be a literature nerd, you can be a music nerd, you can be a gardening nerd. I fall under the category of history nerd, marine biology nerd, children's literature nerd, and probably a lot more on top of that. Dev is a computer nerd, a current events nerd, a math nerd, a biking nerd, a chemistry nerd, and well, he's just generally pretty nerdy. "Nerdlove" is what we say to each other whenever we kiss and our glasses clink against each other. And now that I think about it "glasses clinking put's one in mind of a toast, so it's all the more appropriate.