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Neil and Sanam Chhabria begin a new life together by following four centuries of tradition with a three day celebration Sanam and Neil Chhabria were married August 20 in a traditional Hindu wedding, or Viva Neil and Sanam Chhabria begin a new life together by following four centuries of tradition with a three day celebrationha, that was the culmination of three days of elaborate rituals. Festivities began Thursday with an eight-hour ceremony in which the bride was painted with intricate henna designs at the groom’s family home in Palos Verdes Estates and ended Saturday with an exuberantly colorful wedding at the Hyatt Regency Resort in Huntington Beach. But the newlywed’s love story began, with considerably less grandeur, on December 18, 2010, at Big Mike’s Philly Steaks & Subs sandwich shop in Hermosa Beach. Neil, the son of local real estate icon Raju Chhabria and his wife Philomina, had invited a friend from his college days at the University of San Diego, Diva, to a hip hop show he was promoting at a nearby Hermosa nightclub. His brother, Anand, was performing. His friend brought a few cousins, including Sanam, the daughter of Atul and Malvika Madhav of El Segundo. Diva called…
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