Dr. Kruti Nitin Parikh and Milan Rasik Thakkar were married Sept. 15 at the Legacy Castle, an events space in Pompton Plains, N.J. Narendra Raval, a Hindu priest, officiated.
The bride, 29, is taking a gap year and is to start, in July 2019, an anesthesiology residency at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in Newark. She graduated from Northwestern and received a medical degree from Rutgers.
She is a daughter of Dr. Gita N. Parikh and Dr. Nitin A. Parikh of Livingston, N.J. The bride’s father is an internist in private practice in Jersey City. Her mother is a psychiatrist at East Orange General Hospital in East Orange, N.J.
The groom, also 29, works in New York as a risk manager at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He graduated magna cum laude from Rutgers. He is now enrolled in the Langone part-time M.B.A. program at N.Y.U.
He is the son of Gita R. Thakkar of Union, N.J., and the late Rasik P. Thakkar. The groom’s mother, who is retired, worked as a toll collector in Union for the New Jersey Turnpike Authority. His father was the owner of Park Liquors in Union, N.J., and Bergen Bread & Butter, a grocery store in Jersey City.
The couple were introduced through a mutual friend in 2013 in New York.
