
The groom’s religious ceremony, or pithi, took place Friday morning at The Ritz. Guests began arriving on Wednesday, and wedding activities started Thursday morning with the bride’s religious ceremony, or puja, at the Jain house in Plano. The couple, both of whom are Indian, also knew they wanted to incorporate Indian culture and wedding traditions into their events, “but also find ways to infuse them with our personalities,” Amy says, “which have a lot of New York to them and a lot of Southernness to them.” Pratik and Amy are also vibrant, fun-loving people-and they wanted their wedding weekend to reflect that quality.

“Our hope was that our friends would become close.” “When we thought about the weekend, we wanted our friends and family to feel like they were at home,” she says. Holding her three-day event at the hotel allowed all of her guests to easily be together. She loves The Ritz-Carlton and the restaurant Fearing’s. Today they have an apartment together in NYC’s West Village.Īmy grew up in Plano, and knew she wanted to get married here. The two would have dinner and hang out when she would go into the city for work or to look for an apartment, and by the time her move was final, they were dating seriously.

Joseph, Missouri, was already living in NYC, working in commercial real estate private equity. When they met, Amy was living in Boston, going to business school, but planning a move to New York City. Three years later, they themselves tied the knot. She and Pratik Patel met in Dallas at a wedding on Easter weekend in 2010. The 31-year-old co-founder of BaubleBar, a brand that sells the latest trends in fashion jewelry, is talking about meeting her husband.

“The timing was quite fortuitous,” Amy Jain says.
