Woman's Day Magazine NZ

Reality stars reveal ‘OUR ARRANGED MARRIAGE LED TO LASTING LOVE’

In Ekta and Ashish Sharma’s living room, their wedding portrait smiles warmly from the wall, the bride and groom bedecked in traditional Indian wedding garb, looking the very picture of smitten newlyweds – and they still appear just as happy after celebrating their fourth anniversary.

As their rambunctious one-year-old Ayaan playfully runs around their Auckland home, curiously eyeing the unfamiliar people and equipment of our Woman’s Day photo shoot, the Sharmas say they know exactly who to thank for their domestic bliss – their parents.

The couple, both 31, featured in the last season of the reality show , which follows Kiwi-Indian couples entering into traditional arranged marriages, where parents look for partners for their children through

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