TRT-4187
Vivaah Sanskar
Where this booking has reached, and what happens next.
What you can do now
Muhurat
Sunday, 25 October 2026
04:30 pm – 08:30 pm
Your time · GMT-4
Monday, 26 October 2026
02:00 am – 06:00 am
India time · IST
previous day where you are
- Reference
- TRT-4187
- How it is performed
- Pandit at your home
- Package
- TraditionalRuns about 4 hr
- Paid with
- Card4417Paid
- Goes to · Ceremony venue
- Kartik Anand Sharma18 Coriander Court, Oak Tree RoadEdison, New Jersey 08820United States
Progress
Where this booking has reached
A step marked not applicable is one this way of performing the rite does not include. It is shown rather than hidden, with the reason, so the count of steps always adds up.
Step 2 of 8: Pandit assigned
Completed
Booking confirmed
Your timeGMT-4India timeISTYour booking is held for the evening of 25 October. Both gotras are on record, so the sankalp will name them as given.
Tirtha
Happening now
Pandit assigned
Your timeGMT-4India timeISTPandit Devdatta Upadhyay will conduct the vivaah, with two ritviks for the chanting. He has written to you with the order of the vidhi and the list of what the families are traditionally asked to bring.
Pandit Devdatta Upadhyay
Not applicable
Samagri prepared
Not applicable at home. The pandit and the ritviks bring the samagri to the venue.
Ahead
Ready for the muhurat
Expected byGMT-4India timeISTThe day before, you will get the arrival time, the mandap layout, and a short call with the pandit to walk both families through the sequence.
Ahead
Ritual in progress
Expected byGMT-4India timeISTFrom the kanyadaan through the panigrahana, the laja homa and the saptapadi, each step named aloud in English before it is performed.
Ahead
Ritual completed
Expected byGMT-4India timeISTThe vidhi closes with the ashirvachan and the aarti, and the pandit reads the sankalp once more with every name in it.
Not applicable
Certificate ready
Not applicable at home. Both families are present throughout, so no certificate of performance is issued.
Not applicable
Prasad dispatched
Not applicable at home. The prasad is distributed at the venue at the close of the ceremony.
Sankalp
As it will be spoken
The sankalp names who the rite is performed for, where, and in whose lineage. It is said aloud before the puja begins. Check it now — anything here can still be corrected.
- The name
- Kartik Anand Sharmaकार्तिक आनन्द शर्माgroom
- Also named
- Divya Rajanbride
- Sushila Sharmamother of the groom
- Gotra
- Bharadvaja
- The place
- Edison, New Jersey
- The rite
- Vivaah Sanskar
- Spoken in
- English
- In your own words
For the vivaah of Kartik and Divya, with both families named before the fire.
This is not read aloud unless you ask for it to be.
Who performs it
Your pandit
Acharya
Devdatta Upadhyay
He took his Vedic schooling at Gurukul Kangri in Haridwar and has conducted sanskars for Arya Samaj mandirs along the Ganga canal for twenty-one years. His practice is havan-centred and follows the Sanskar Vidhi compiled by Swami Dayanand Saraswati: there is no murti puja, no image is installed, and every offering goes into the kund with a Vedic mantra spoken aloud. He translates each mantra into Hindi or English at the moment it is offered, so that families understand the words as they say them rather than afterwards. Couples marrying across communities often find their way to him because the Arya Samaj vivah is short, textual and does not require either family to adopt the other's local custom.
- Lineage
- Arya Samaj Sanskar Vidhi; Yajurveda adhyayana at Gurukul Kangri, Haridwar
- Recites in
- HI · EN
- Practice
- 21 years · 1,180 pujas
- At the agreed muhurat
- 97%
- Rated
- 4.8 214 reviews
What was checked
- What was checked
Aadhaar and PAN were checked against the name on his bank account, and a live video selfie was matched to both documents by our onboarding team.
8 Oct 2025
- What was checked
His Vedic schooling at Gurukul Kangri was confirmed against the gurukul register, and the pradhan of the Arya Samaj mandir at Jwalapur confirmed in writing that he has served on its purohit roster since 2011.
21 Oct 2025
- What was checked
He recited the vivah and namkaran sequences from the Sanskar Vidhi before a three-member review panel, which assessed svara, the ahuti order and the accuracy of his running Hindi translation of each mantra.
3 Nov 2025
- What was checked
He completed a recorded rehearsal from the Arya Samaj hall he works out of: one wide angle and one close angle on the kund, a clip-on microphone, and an uplink measured at 8 Mbps sustained over an hour.
27 Jan 2026
- What was checked
A police verification certificate from the Haridwar district office dated 19 February 2026 was received, along with references from the two mandir committees whose registers carry his marriage sanskar entries.
24 Feb 2026
The rite
What is being performed
The Vedic wedding rite. Two families are joined before Agni, and the couple walks the saptapadi — the seven steps that complete the marriage.
Payment
What this booking cost
Every line the pricing produced, with the reason for each. There are no charges beyond this total.
| Charges | Amount |
|---|---|
| Vivaah Sanskar — Traditional | $900.00 |
| Two ritviks for the Vedic chanting | $252.00 |
| Pandit travel within the tri-state areaFlat travel fee. Nothing further is collected on the day. | $120.00 |
| Subtotal | $1,272.00 |
| Shipping | $0.00 |
| Taxes | $0.00 |
| Total | $1,272.00 |
Charged in USD and settled in INR at 1 INR = 0.0120 USD, fixed at the time of booking. Your bank may apply its own charge.
Prices are shown in USD. There are no charges beyond this total.
Something to correct?
A name in the sankalp, a gotra you have since found, an address that has changed — any of these can still be corrected up to the day before the rite. Quote TRT-4187 and the person who arranged this puja will answer.
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