She says, “Thank God, I plan to get married only once! This has been the most exhausting week of my life .
And also the happiest. I’ve waited so long for my wedding. Outwardly, the only thing that’s different is the choodas, and the way I’m dressed. Inside me, everything feels the same. I’ve known Raj for so long that it feels no different otherwise.”

Talking about the reception Shilpa says, “I have a severe jaw ache from all the smiling at the reception. Now I know why my colleagues avoid wedding receptions! It really does get impossible to manage the entire crowd.At the wedding too, there were people climbing trees and walls to take photographs.But it was a far more intimate, private and controlled affair than the reception. Shamita kept saying that she felt she was part of a Punjabi wedding sequence from a movie!The wedding was very traditional and simple. I felt I was going through a dream. My marriage was exactly the way I had imagined it.

Shilpa moves on to the topic of honeymoon and says, “We’re going to the Bahamas for our honeymoon. Then after we return, Raj is taking our entire family,all the Shettys and the Kundras, on a Mediterranean cruise for Christmas. He thought everyone needed a break.”

And Shilpa is eager to become a mother, she says, “Oh yes! I certainly want to be a mother. I can’t wait to start our family.”