Sonakshi Sinha and Zaheer Iqbal tied the knot on June 23 in an intimate wedding ceremony in Mumbai attended by their close friends and family members. The visuals of the same were quick to go viral all over social media and the duo was stunning as they took their relationship to the next stage. But there has been a special reason for choosing the wedding date.

Zaheer and Sonakshi dated for over seven years before heading for the marriage. The duo first met at the house of Salman Khan where they ended up speaking to each other for hours. Although they have attended several events prior where both of them were present, they had no idea about each other until then.

Zaheer said, “The first time we met was at Salman bhai’s (Salman Khan) house. Strangely, we both were present at Salman bhai’s birthday parties (at his farm and Mumbai home, Galaxy) several times since 2013, but our paths never crossed. I didn’t know she was there, and she didn’t know that I existed. Then finally, we met at Galaxy one evening, when a few of us just chilled together, and that was our first interaction. But the first time we really spent a lot of time with each other was on June 23, 2017 (hence, we chose that date for our wedding)." Further adding, "There was a screening of Tubelight and an afterparty, where we ended up spending five hours together. We kept chatting, and suddenly, we turned around and we were like…where did everyone else go? We knew that day there was something special here.”

Sonakshi and Zaheer also worked together on a film ‘Double XL’ which was released in 2022, also features Huma Qureshi in the lead role. Sonakshi’s latest project is ‘Kakuda’ where she starred alongside Riteish Deshmukh.