The Apprentice stars Harpreet Kaur and Akshay Thakrar have made TV history after they became they first couple to get married after meeting on the show.
The couple both competed on the 2022 series, with Harpreet, 32, winning the show and Lord Sugar’s investment.
After filming wrapped, the pair started dating and got engaged in May last year, before officially tying the knot this month in a three-day ceremony.
‘It’s crazy – what a story that we met on the show, I said in my speech, “I think I’m the only man who can say I met my wife on The Apprentice”,’ Akshay told The Mirror.
He added: ‘The only way I can describe our wedding is that it felt like a movie, it was amazing.’
The Apprentice stars Harpreet Kaur and Akshay Thakrar have made TV history after they became they first couple to get married after meeting on the show
The day began with a civil ceremony at Wentbridge House Hotel in West Yorkshire, where Harpreet wore a stunning Enzoani white wedding dress.
The newly weds then had a roast dinner with their guests before parting ways ahead of their Indian wedding.
Next up was the Indian ceremony at Hare Krishna Temple in Watford.
As with Indian tradition, the man has to cut a ribbon to offer up money to the wife’s family before marrying her.
Akshay however revealed that got his friend to cut the ribbon so he could ‘sneak’ by without handing over cash.
Harpreet said the couple are looking forward to starting a family but have decided to wait and focus on travel.
Their wedding guests included the show’s first winner, Tim Campbell, as well as Harpreet and Akshay’s fellow 2022 contestants Kathryn Louise Burn, Brittany Carter, Akeem Bundu-Kamara and Nick Showering.
As part of the wedding, there was a fake Apprentice contest with a backdrop of the theme tune – which is to determine the boss of the relationship. Harpreet was the victor.
After filming wrapped, the pair started dating and got engaged in May last year, before officially tying the knot this month in a three-day ceremony
Fellow contestants Kathryn Burn, Brittany Carter, Akeem Bundu-Kamara and Nick Showering also attended, with Kathryn being Harpreet’s bridesmaid (Harpreet and Kathryn pictured together on her hen do)
As part of the wedding, there was a fake Apprentice contest with a backdrop of the theme tune – which is to determine the boss of the relationship. Harpreet was the victor
‘We knew the other was The One straight away, and it’s just gone from strength to strength from the beginning,’ Akshay said.
After the three-day celebration, the couple jetted off on honeymoon to the Seychelles and Dubai.
Taking to Instagram to share snaps of their big day, Akshay wrote: ‘Blessed and Married. Starting our forever chapter ❤️.’
In February, the lovebirds admitted they never imagined they would fall in love on the show, despite Akshay’s mother hinting at the possibility of a romance.
Akshay told OK! magazine his mother made jokes about him finding love, telling him: ‘Good luck you might find your wife’, but he insisted she ‘not be silly’.
‘I told her to not be silly because it was a business show and such a high-pressure environment,’ he said.
Harpreet echoed: ‘I never thought I’d meet someone on the show. I just didn’t expect it at all.’
Their first impression backed up this theory, as Harpreet said on the first day of The Apprentice, Akshay gave her a serious glance and looked away.
After the three-day celebration, the couple jetted off on honeymoon to the Seychelles and Dubai
In February, the lovebirds admitted they never imagined they would fall in love on the show, despite Akshay’s mother hinting at the possibility of a romance
It made her think he was there for business and business only. ‘He does not look very friendly,’ she thought at the time.
‘I had a plan that I wasn’t going to make friends,’ Akshay revealed. ‘I wanted everyone to be scared of me.
‘But there was a point where Harpreet was doing a pitch and I thought, “I’d love a partner like her”.’
Harpreet and Akshay confirmed their romance in August 2022 when they shared a loved-up snap together to mark three months of dating.
The pair’s stunning proposal scene took place on a London rooftop with a rose display, sparklers and an LED sign which read: ‘Will you marry me?’
Harpreet looked glamorous in a metallic gown while showing off her dazzling engagement ring from the London Diamond Dealer.
Alongside the loved-up snap, Akshay penned: ‘I would find you in any lifetime❤️ Our journey began in the most unexpected way. Now it’s time to begin our forever chapter. She said yes.’
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