Hello All My name is Rishabh Jain and I was a member on the jeevansathi portal. I would like to share my story of finding a match on this portal and eventually getting married. On 9th December 2019 I sent an interest to the profile of Miss Swati Jain, the account of whom was being handled by her father. I took the contact number mentioned there and parallely sent a whatsapp message to him and we shared our respective biodatas. Our locations were as follows Myself - Mumbai My parents - Gurgaon Swati - Gurgaon Her parents - Alwar Since her account was being handled by her father I asked my mother to give them a call and ask if they are interested. My mother called him and it was decided that they would exchange our numbers so that Swati and I could talk and get to know each other. I texted and called her on 14th December 2019 and we spoke on phone twice that day. The conversation was pretty generic and we talked about our likes, dislikes, hobbies, work routines and our preferences on music, movies, travel etc. Our parents parallely spoke once again and decided to meet. Her parents visited my parents in Gurgaon on 25th December. The meeting went fine and they decided to meet again with both of us on 29th December (I had come to my home in Gurgaon for new year). So on 29th December we all met and had lunch and we both got some time to talk. Soon after celebrating the new year I went back to Mumbai. Since all the meetings had happened, parents were expecting an answer so we both decided to talk once again on phone before coming to any conclusion. After our call, I said yes to my parents and they planned to visit Swati's place in Alwar on 12th January. Everything seemed fine and things got fixed that day. The roka ceremony was decided for 1st February and the dates for sagai and wedding were fixed for 24th and 26th April. Meanwhile our calls and messages increased and we got to know each other pretty well. She even gave a one day surprise visit to me in Mumbai on 14th February (our first valentine) without telling anyone. I also travelled to gurgaon in February for shopping with parents. Things were going as planned and in March I again came to gurgaon for my sherwani shopping.  And it was then when the lockdown was announced and I couldn't go back to Mumbai. Swati too had gone to her home in Alwar due to lockdown. Suddenly everything seemed doubtful due to COVID. When the lockdown extended till 3rd May it was clear that we had no other option but to postpone the wedding. It felt like the excitement and charm of wedding preparations was fading out and everything was put on hold. To look at it in a positive way, this extra courtship period brought me and Swati closer and we had developed better understanding and feelings for each other.  When the third lockdown (till 17th May) ended and it was announced that marriages could happen with 50 people, our fathers consulted the pandit once again and the revised dates of 7th and 15th June were fixed for sagai and wedding. The preparations again started although in a much subtle way since now all the functions had reduced to a much smaller scale than before. Both the families had planned to have all the functions but with only immediate family members. The functions started with a pooja that was held at our home and then we had our engagement on 7th June in Courtyard by Marriott in gurgaon with a gathering of 50 people. With huge families on both the sides, it was a really strenuous exercise to narrow down our guest to 25 nos per side. The sagai happened as planned and it turned out to be a really sweet event. In the next week the functions like lagan was planned at the bride side and the functions of haldi, bhaat and mehendi for both the sides. Since almost all the hotels were closed, the wedding too was planned at Courtyard by Marriott on 15th June.  However the challenges didn't end there. On 13th June my locality was declared a COVID containment zone and fearing that we might not be able to move out on the wedding day we packed our bags along with all the stuff related to the functions and shifted to Marriott on 14th itself. Parallely Rajasthan government sealed its borders with Haryana and Swati's father had to visit the SDM office to arrange special passes to travel for the wedding. With god's grace all these hurdles passed and the wedding happened on 15th June. The consequent ceremonies of pagphera too went fine. Since we could not go for our planned honeymoon (we had booked a package for Greece), we decided to spend a weekend at a resort in Manesar, however that plan too was disrupted since one of their staff tested positive for COVID on the same day and they had to shut down. We both are at home since then, following our respective 'work from home' schedules and finding time on weekends to visit nearby markets and obviously hoping for things to settle down to finally plan a trip somewhere. We would like to tell all the people on jeevansathi that all these things require patience and resilience but don't lose hope. Sometimes finding the right match takes time, and sometimes even after finding the match conducting the functions gets tough. We are passing through an unforeseen and tough time and only patience, hope and due precautions can take us past this. For all the people who are yet to find their match, all the best and for the ones who have found, rejoice and celebrate but with due to regard to the present regulations and restrictions. Love Rishabh and Swati