Anna Zhang didn’t want to lift her eyebrows by getting caught with a man.
In June 2020, she lived with her family in the Sunset Park district of Brooklyn, where she grew up. Coming from a strict Chinese family – and with several parents living in the same block – Mrs. Zhang asked Mohammed Naimul Alam Bhuiyan to obtain it at a pâté of houses in his house for their first appointment.
Mr. Bhuiyan, who passes through Naim, grew up only at only 10 marties of houses of Mrs. Zhang, but they had never crossed the way until the hinge was matching this month. For their appointment, he borrowed his brother’s motorcycle to pick it up in style and make a good first impression. His plan worked.
“He knew what he was doing,” said Ms. Zhang. “I loved how spontaneous it was.” They went to Caesar’s Bay in the south of Brooklyn and walked along the seafront, ending at night with ice cream from a truck Mr. Sofee.
In the weeks following the pandemic, he often picked it up, and they went to the park and spoke of growing up in the south of Brooklyn and their ambitions. “I am a chatter,” said Bhuiyan. “And she was just very easy to speak.
In November, on the occasion of the first anniversary of the death of Mr. Bhuiyan’s father, Mr. Bhuiyan went to his father’s grave and returned home to his new apartment in Sunset Park in which he had recently moved. Ms. Zhang was waiting for him, sitting on the floor of the uncomfortable apartment. When he saw her there, the words slipped from his mouth: “I love you,” he said for the first time.
“It’s so crazy,” she replied. She gave him a letter she had written for him. In this document, she wrote: “Your dad looks like an incredible man. Thank you for sharing stories about your father with me, Naim. He raised a great son. I love you so much.”
Mr. Bhuiyan read it aloud. It was an emotional moment for both.
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Ms. Zhang, 31, has a Sunset Park eyebrow bar called Babyface Brows. She graduated from Nyu with a culture baccalaureate and media communications. Mr. Bhuiyan, also 31 years old, is vice-president of security monitoring supported by mortgage loans in Morningstar, a financial service company. He graduated from the University of Buffalo with a baccalaureate in mathematics.
On August 23, Mr. Bhuiyan proposed during a sunset campfire in a Lenox complex, Mass., When he sent him a video via Airdrop to ask his parents their blessing in Chinese. At the end of the video, a legend read: “Your parents have given permission. Now it’s up to you.”
“As soon as I opened the video and I saw my parents, I just started brassing,” said Ms. Zhang.
On September 1, the couple decided to get married in three weeks. The friend of Mr. Bhuiyan and the wedding photographer, Rafiya Alam, helped to coordinate the sellers and to bring together all of this.
On September 21, the couple married before 150 guests at the Diyanet mosque in Brooklyn Eyup Sultan, a mosque in Brighton Beach. Imam Sefat Shafic has officiated. The reception that followed was in Hamilton Loft to Red Hook.
The celebration was a tapestry of their Banglades and Chinese cultures. Their four -feet long cake was made by a local Bangladaise bakery, oven Corners Co., and was decorated with dragon, guava, lychee and flowers. Their wedding favors were fans woven by Bangladais and Chinese fans. And the night ended with Trivia matches where the winners received money in red Chinese envelopes, followed by a truck of ice cream Mister Sofee.
Since marriage was planned at random, they forgot certain things, but that didn’t matter to them. “Everything that fell through the meshes of the net, it made our wedding even more unique,” said Mr. Bhuiyan. For example, he forgot to get ice, but his friends gathered at the last minute, went up in a truck and made an adventure to find enough ice for a whole wedding.
They responded to the food of Laghman Express, a Uighur restaurant which was on the list of the best restaurants in the New York Times 2025 in New York. “If the food is not good, marriage is not good,” he said.
Mr. Bhuiyan also secretly reserved a violinist 1 pm before the wedding to play the theme song of “Bridgerton” when Mrs. Zhang entered the place. She had already made a comment by passing on the way she would like to have a “Bridgeton wedding”. Ms. Zhang, shocked, immediately started to cry when she heard the music.
“It looked like a very magical moment,” said Zhang. “I felt like Cinderella.”
