{"id":373806,"date":"2026-10-15T11:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T11:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/373806\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T11:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T11:38:13","slug":"in-photos-isha-kothari-and-drew-greenbergs-multicultural-new-york-extravaganza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/373806\/","title":{"rendered":"In Photos: Isha Kothari and Drew Greenberg\u2019s Multicultural New York Extravaganza"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Indian wedding standards, Isha Kothari and Drew Greenberg\u2019s celebration was a low-key affair. Sure, there was the sangeet-style party that filled up the cavernous Aqua, a hybrid Japanese-Italian restaurant in New York City, with more than 500 guests. And there was the ceremony and reception at the Rainbow Room at Rockefeller Center, which lasted until 3 a.m. And the bride wore six looks in three days\u2014along with an impressive suite of bespoke emerald, ruby, and diamond jewels made specially for the occasion. (Her family has been in the gem business for four generations.)<\/p>\n

But rather than the typical three-hour ceremony, they kept it to an hour and a half\u2014and invited just 220 people to the main event. And instead of making it all about her, they incorporated Drew\u2019s Jewish faith, too, and blended the best of both worlds. \u201cThat was something we spent a lot of time doing during the planning process,\u201d Isha says. \u201cWe wanted it to feel as though we were bringing our two cultures and lives together.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Isha wore a lehenga set designed by Seema Gujral.<\/p>\n

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And a suite of custom jewels made by members of her family.<\/p>\n

A Jain priest and a rabbi co-officiated the affair, transitioning between traditions\u2014which turned out to share several similarities. For instance, in Jewish weddings the bride circles the groom seven times, signifying their new bond. In Jain weddings the couple join hands to take seven steps around a sacred fire. And in a parallel of sorts to the Jewish rite of breaking a glass at the end, a Jain wedding begins with the groom stepping on a clay pot (the sampoot), symbolically removing any obstacles in their path. \u201cWe picked the most important elements,\u201d Isha says. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t my wedding. It wasn\u2019t Drew\u2019s wedding. It was ours.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Celebrations kicked off with a sangeet-style party at Aqua.<\/p>\n

To be fair, the bride did get to have a day that was all about her. The afternoon before, her grandparents hosted 135 guests\u2014mostly extended family members who had flown in from around the world\u2014for lunch at Ambassadors Clubhouse. \u201cThat was more our traditional Indian day,\u201d Isha says, \u201cwhere we performed a lot of rituals that we weren\u2019t able to do otherwise throughout the weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Indian traditions, like a version of the mala ceremony, took center stage at the lunch the bride\u2019s grandparents hosted at Ambassadors Clubhouse.<\/p>\n

There was a swagat mala, a welcome ritual where the bride\u2019s side greets the groom\u2019s with blessings and garlands. That segued into iterations of the haldi and mala ceremonies, in which Isha was showered with rose petals (instead of the more common turmeric paste) and then adorned with an auspicious necklace by her mother. Drew declined to do a full baraat, which would have required him to parade down a New York City street on a white horse, so they improvised and did their own version at the restaurant\u2014and included other dances, like the garba. Everyone came festively dressed in Indian attire and feasted on a vegetarian menu of Ambassadors Clubhouse highlights, including beetroot dahi puri, chili cheese pakode, paneer tikka, and methi romanesco and chana biryani. Out of respect to Isha\u2019s grandparents, they didn\u2019t serve alcohol.<\/p>\n

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Dinner was vegetarian in honor of Isha\u2019s Jain heritage.<\/p>\n

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The five-tiered cake was a Ron Ben-Israel creation.<\/p>\n

Such was not the case the next evening at their Rainbow Room reception, for which the couple managed to coax cocktail recipes out of two of their favorite NYC restaurants: 53 (for its Raspberry Bouquet concoction) and Eleven Madison Park (for the Lucky Bamboo). Drew\u2019s drink of choice\u2014a mezcal negroni\u2014was also on tap, each one poured over a custom-stamped ice cube from Okamoto in Queens. Dinner was an elegant affair of beet and goat cheese salad, Carbone-\u00adinspired spicy rigatoni, miso-glazed tofu, and passion fruit pavlova. An extensive \u201cdrunchie\u201d menu (grilled cheese, kati rolls, samosas, and Caff\u00e8 Panna ice cream) followed later, natch.<\/p>\n

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Mikael D did the bride\u2019s reception dress (top image), which took 1,300 hours to craft, and afterparty mini.<\/p>\n

It was necessary fuel for the biggest surprise of the night: a Knicks-themed pop-a-shot that Isha spent weeks secretly arranging for her husband. \u201cThis was Drew\u2019s first Indian wedding, so he was a little overwhelmed,\u201d she says. \u201cThat was probably the only part he truly enjoyed.\u201d (She\u2019s kidding, of course.)<\/p>\n

This story appears in the October 2026 issue of Town & Country.<\/p>\n

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Leena Kim is Town & Country\u2019s Senior Editor, covering the travel, jewelry, style, arts and culture, education, and weddings beats. She has no priors\u2014she has been at the magazine since 2013, having started her career at T&C as the assistant to the editor in chief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"3 min read By Indian wedding standards, Isha Kothari and Drew Greenberg\u2019s celebration was a low-key affair. Sure,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[54687,15064,137615,569,83931,568,9,11,10,57826,137614,108292,137616],"class_list":["post-373806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-collection-in-the-magazine","tag-content-type-round-up-general","tag-contentid-b49fe4a8-d01c-4eb0-bde6-c907c78e4a7e","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-issyndicated-false","tag-locale-us","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-read_time-3","tag-shorttitle-isha-kothari-drew-greenbergs-new-york-wedding","tag-sponsored-false","tag-subsection-weddings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}