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Usha-Kiran Ghia and Rahul Rajkumar

The Times wedding section: Usha-Kiran Ghia, a daughter of Urmila Ghia and Kirti Ghia of Cincinnati, was married on Thursday morning to Dr. Rahul Rajkumar, the son of Dr. Urmil Aneja Gupta and Dr. Raj Kumar Gupta of Somers, N.Y. Mayor Thomas C. Rink of Indian Hill, Ohio, officiated in his office. Today, Pandit Navin Trivedi, a Hindu priest, is to perform a traditional Vedic ceremony at the Manor House, an estate in Cincinnati. ...

The bride and bridegroom met six years ago, when Ms. Ghia needed a ride from Westchester County Airport back to Yale after a vacation. A friend who knew them both had suggested calling Mr. Rajkumar because he lived close to the airport. "Out of the blue, I asked him if he didn't mind picking me up there," she said.

For his part, "I thought she was beautiful, charming and had a natural glow about her," he said. They soon became friends.

"One night I brought her a cup of coffee while she was up late writing a paper," Dr. Rajkumar remembered. "I was looking through some of her notebooks and saw my name written in beginner Hindi in one of them. That propelled me to ask her out. From then on, we knew."

Five years later, on another visit to the Westchester airport, he proposed.

I guess it's just the wedding pages, but the Times missed the story here. He lived close to the airport--but where did she live?

Assuming she lived at or near Yale, the school's travel services says Westchester airport is 59 miles away!

So this man with a law and medical degree agreed to drive out of the blue 120 miles round-trip for a stranger? My gosh... his friend must've emphasized her extreme cuteness. And what kindof a girl is she, to allow him to do that for her?

I'm very curious what the dynamics of their married life are like.

'Honey, would you mind driving to the next state to get me some chapstick?'

Photo of Usha-Kiran and Kirti by Steve Lyons photography via the Times.