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Ron & Sunil
2020
For a suburban family, a house is a home--but for a New York City family--home is their entire neighborhood. Despite being in one of the biggest cities in the world, all you have to do is live in a NYC neighborhood for one year to know what I’m talking about: how you start to recognize the same faces on the subway, the same delivery trucks blocking the same traffic as they’re double-parked, and how you begin to see the same people rotate from neighborhood bar to neighborhood bar while you sit there wondering how you think you know them. So the fact that Ron and Sunil live in the Upper West Side, one block away from where Heather and I first met, technically makes us New York family.
I first met Ron while serving him and his late husband at a restaurant at 105th and Broadway in Morningside Heights. I was new to bartending and they would playfully give me pointers as I trudged through shift-after-shift. Funny enough, this happened to be the same bar that Heather and I first met. To take this NYC serendipity even further, Ron and Sunil held their small reception at the restaurant across the street in the same building where Heather used to bartend! Talk about that neighborhood love!
Just a couple of blocks west, after you cross Riverside Drive, you come up on Riverside Park, which runs four miles up and down Manhattan’s west coastline. It’s too far a trek for most tourists and is a great place to do yoga, go for a run, have a picnic, or in Ron and Sunil’s Covid-contingency-case, have a wonderfully intimate and beautiful wedding ceremony. In true New York fashion, between all the congratulations from the passersby, there was a token heckler. Unsure what to do, we followed Ron and Sunil’s lead and we let their love speak for itself, ignoring this unhinged man for the pest that he was.
We’re so grateful to have been part of their celebration and we aren’t the only ones! Their wedding was featured in the New York Times this past weekend and they look just as good in their stylishly complementary outfits as they did the day of. Ron calls his jacket a ‘dusty pink’ and it might’ve been a literal description if Sunil dropped him when they danced and dipped on 106th street, but lucky for Ron, Sunil is an adept dancer. Shortly thereafter they embraced and the emotions of the day caught up with them. Ron cried. I cried. We live for these moments.
Ron and Sunil plan to renew their vows next year on the same date, inviting the same minister (Ben) who was actually at the church the night they got engaged! We love the idea of using their anniversary to celebrate their love even bigger and better. They plan to hold their reception at the India House and we can’t wait! Who knows, they might even invite their whole neighborhood!