Mother of the Bride
Loves: all dogs but mostly Zen, her family, friends & employees, homemade smoothies & salads, running 10 miles/day, yoga, DIY furniture & interior design, Marshalls, Harvard, US Army, binge-watching Netflix serials Also known as: The Dog Whisperer House: Slytherin
Father of the Bride
Loves: his family, all dogs, good food, good drink, great conversation, cricket, logic/math puzzles, pastel-coloured pants, his hair dryer, Patel Brothers, La Martinière, Kolkata Also known as: Kishore Kumar of New York House: Gryffindor
Mother of the Groom
Loves: Kolkata, Bengali culture, her family, writing books, painting, cooking, hiking, the National Trust, gardening, medicine, philanthropy, Cambridge, Nobel Prize, Matt Hancock, calling her boys down for dinner Also known as: Lady Van Gogh House: Slytherin
Father of the Groom
Loves: his family, fruit & nut chocolate, old Bengali music, rose arches, coffee and tea in copious quantity, cricket, cardiology, heart research, nature walks, strumming guitars, lecturing, mentoring, reciting poetry to his sons Also known as: Shakespeare of Kolkata House: Hufflepuff
Bride
Loves: Spandan (S), her family, friends, all dogs, primary care medicine, dumplings, philosophy, chess, painting, piano, medicinal plants, California redwoods, cheap flights, old books, old libraries, Cambridge countryside, Christmas in Kolkata, unreasonably long showers, posting stories, laughing really loudly Also known as: Maggie House: Gryffindor
Groom
Loves: Meg, Baloo, his family, friends, writing novels, reading (all books but mostly the long ones), James Joyce, George Eliot, Thomas Pynchon, Shakespeare, postmodernism, the brain, piano, local history, obscure mythology, long drives, dancing like nobody's watching, white rice, high quality sound systems, YouTube, his hair Also known as: Mushy House: Ravenclaw