This Bride And Groom Exchanged Mangalsutras. What Happened Next

"People started commenting- 'Now wear a saree also'," says Shardul, talking about the backlash he faced for his decision to wear a mangalsutra.

When Shardul Kadam said that he would wear a mangalsutra on his wedding day, his decision to turn an old ritual on its head raised many eyebrows. The mangalsutra is a sacred thread which is traditionally tied by the groom around the bride's neck on their wedding day. "After the pheras when Tanuja and I tied the mangalsutra around each other's neck, I was so happy," recalls Shardul, who spoke to Humans of Bombay about why he chose to wear a mangalsutra and how that one decision made the couple a target of Internet trolls. Shardul and Tanuja met in college, although their love story began four years after they graduated. "We reconnected in the most unexpected way. She'd shared a Himesh Reshammiya song on Instagram and captioned it as 'torture'-I replied back saying 'maha torture'...that's how we started talking," says Shardul. When they met for tea after a few weeks and started talking about feminism, Shardul declared himself to be a "hardcore feminist". "She looked at me as if she hadn't expected me to say that!" he says.