Ladies, gentlemen, and assorted carnival attendees: Under the glow of starlight, fireflies, and the questionable judgment of two people who thought “What if we combined a sangeet, a state fair, and summer camp?” was an excellent idea ..… welcome. Our story began online, after both of us had already lived enough life to know what mattered and what didn’t. We had both been married before. Kirstin was only just beginning to step back into dating, while Subhash had already spent a few years searching for the right person. What neither of us expected was to find someone whose particular brand of weirdness made perfect sense to the other. Subhash knew very early on that this was something special. Kirstin was skeptical and conducted multiple evaluations of his character, sanity, and various business ideas. Subhash is brilliant, outgoing, wildly inventive, and operates on a deeply unconventional wavelength that not everyone understands. But Kirstin saw the things that mattered most: his loyalty, his creativity, his enormous capacity for dreaming, and the strange, wonderful way his mind works. Subhash admires Kirstin's steadiness, curiosity, and the way she cares deeply about people even when he doesn’t always fully understand why humans behave the way they do. He also loves how instinctively connected she is to the natural world - her quiet logic of how living things operate and coexist. Where he sees possibility everywhere, she brings grounding and heart. Where he brings colorful chaos, she brings patience and clarity. What makes our relationship work isn’t that we are identical. In many ways, we are very different people. We don’t always experience the world in the same way, but we respect each other completely, accepting each other’s delightful oddities. Together, we discovered that love is not necessarily finding someone exactly like yourself - sometimes it’s finding someone who fully enjoys your particular kind of weird. When it came time to plan our wedding, we wanted it to feel like us: joyful, slightly chaotic, colorful, unconventional, and deeply welcoming. So naturally, we decided the only reasonable way to celebrate was with a carnival-themed wedding weekend involving camp cabins, dancing, colorful traditions, and philosophical debates about what exactly qualifies as a pellet. Throughout the weekend, we’re honoring both Subhash’s Indian and Mexican heritage in ways that feel personal and genuine to us - through food, music, adventure, and community. We’re incredibly grateful to the friends and family who are joining us for this wonderfully unusual adventure. Welcome to the circus. ❤️