VIDEO - American Tourist Marries Rickshaw Driver (news article included)
September, 2009
PROOF that you can find love (or at least meet a good woman) anywhere if you're persistent and have the courage to ask...
I have searched for the outcome of this relationship to see if they were still together but I haven't found anything yet. Hopefully, they are still together. I believe in true love and I hope it lasts for a very long time.
Video provided by ABP NEWS
For more information: google "whitney ricksaw driver"
- loveqna
Here are the details and notes about this unique romantic experience as reported by some of the media...
It took only one week for a motorized rickshaw driver, Harish Hotala, to win the heart of a 26-year-old American tourist traveling in India. Whitney (her surname was not given by the "Mail Today" newspaper) hitched a ride in a rickshaw last week and married the driver a few days later. Whitney from Chicago met her prince charming in Jaipur in Rajasthan.
She hired this strapping young lad to take her on a tour of the city and "On the third day, he surprised her by popping the question:
"I want to spend the rest of my life with you", he told her. And she fell in love.
After meeting last Saturday they were married on Wednesday in a simple ceremony.
Whitney was pictured in the paper, standing with new husband Harish Hotala, wearing a traditional sari that covered her head.
But according to the "Mail Today" paper, Hotala was wasn't just your average rickshaw driver...
"Though a school dropout, he is fluent in English and owns three auto-rickshaws," it said.
After the ceremony, Whitney was to fly back to the US on September 30 to face the open arms of her parents. "My father was surprised but my mother took it sportingly," she said.
- loveqna
PROOF that you can find love (or at least meet a good woman) anywhere if you're persistent and have the courage to ask...
I have searched for the outcome of this relationship to see if they were still together but I haven't found anything yet. Hopefully, they are still together. I believe in true love and I hope it lasts for a very long time.
Video provided by ABP NEWS
For more information: google "whitney ricksaw driver"
- loveqna
Here are the details and notes about this unique romantic experience as reported by some of the media...
It took only one week for a motorized rickshaw driver, Harish Hotala, to win the heart of a 26-year-old American tourist traveling in India. Whitney (her surname was not given by the "Mail Today" newspaper) hitched a ride in a rickshaw last week and married the driver a few days later. Whitney from Chicago met her prince charming in Jaipur in Rajasthan.
She hired this strapping young lad to take her on a tour of the city and "On the third day, he surprised her by popping the question:
"I want to spend the rest of my life with you", he told her. And she fell in love.
After meeting last Saturday they were married on Wednesday in a simple ceremony.
Whitney was pictured in the paper, standing with new husband Harish Hotala, wearing a traditional sari that covered her head.
But according to the "Mail Today" paper, Hotala was wasn't just your average rickshaw driver...
"Though a school dropout, he is fluent in English and owns three auto-rickshaws," it said.
After the ceremony, Whitney was to fly back to the US on September 30 to face the open arms of her parents. "My father was surprised but my mother took it sportingly," she said.
- loveqna
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