This Four-Day Wedding Featured a Neon Sangeet and a White-and-Silver Reception

She’s a DEI director from Alabama; he’s an attorney from Massachusetts. Just a year and a half after Alisha and Vivek clicked on a dating app, he proposed at Top of the Town overlooking the DC skyscape, with friends and family on hand to further the surprise.

Their 300-guest, four-day July wedding celebration featured three distinctly designed events: a colorful, neon sangeet; a blush-gold-and-white ceremony; and a silver-and-white reception. Some of the grand decor included a floral peacock at the sangeet, flower-and-Indian-jewelry-adorned faux elephants flanking the ceremony entrance, and a statement bar at the reception. Showgirls dressed in pearls (and later as disco balls) greeted reception guests with Champagne. Even the photo booth was elevated, with a white floral backdrop and six-by-six-inch photo keepsakes. The couple’s favorite touch of the glittery affair was a sentimental one: the memory table to honor late loved ones.

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This wedding originally appeared in the January 2024 issue of Washingtonian.

Amy Moeller

Fashion & Weddings Editor

Amy leads Washingtonian Weddings and writes Style Setters for Washingtonian. Prior to joining Washingtonian in March 2016, she was the editor of Capitol File magazine in DC and before that, editor of What’s Up? Weddings in Annapolis.