Anika & Faisal

When: October 2025
Where: Dhanmondi & Pan Pacific Sonargaon, Dhaka
We covered: Holud, Nikah & Reception, photos and film
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Anika adjusts Faisal’s hair on the steps of an old red-brick building

Two nights of Holud songs at home, a Nikah signed at the dining table with the whole family leaning in, and a reception where the dance floor never quite emptied.

Holud হলুদ

10 October 2025 Family home, Dhanmondi

Cousins took over the rooftop by sunset. Nobody followed the running order, which was the point.

Anika in a yellow lehenga beside Faisal at the edge of a still pool

Flowers pinned in Anika’s braid against strings of festival lights

Close-up of hennaed hands and bangles mid-gesture

Nikah নিকাহ

11 October 2025 Family home, Dhanmondi

Quiet, then very loud: the kabin nama signed, and the room let out a breath at once.

Anika getting ready in front of a round mirror, a red dupatta folded on the table

Faisal and Anika signing the marriage register, garlands around their necks

Anika and Faisal holding hands under a white arch in a brick corridor

Portrait of Anika in blue and silver, hands folded, mehndi visible

Reception রিসেপশন

13 October 2025 Pan Pacific Sonargaon, Dhaka

Anika and Faisal standing together on a floral reception stage

Anika kisses Faisal on the cheek; he laughs behind his glasses

The film

Holud, Nikah & Reception, 3:48

The Nikah, told mostly through the people watching it.

Film still: flowers in a braid against festival lights

3:48

“They caught the gate-dhora, the Nikah, the chaos backstage — everything we missed while it was happening is in our film.”

Anika & Faisal Holud, Nikah & Reception · Dhanmondi, 2025

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