New Delhi: Agriculture scientists Alapati Nymisha and Prem Kumar B. have dedicated their careers to soil science and agricultural chemistry research. So, it was no surprise that when the two decided to tie the knot, their wedding invitation displayed their shared love for research.
The invite spurred a hilarious and heartwarming conversation on the internet this week, when people spotted what looked like the introductory page to a research paper.
With an abstract, an introduction and even a description of the methodology, the document looks like it has been pulled right out of a journal by an international publisher, like Elsevier or Springer. But on a closer look, one can spot the image of the smiling couple, with the title that reads, “Wedding Invitation”.
Agriculture biologist Channa Prakash posted the invite on X Saturday and wrote, “When two ag scientists get married.” Prakash’s post has garnered over 13,000 views and more than 200 likes.
When two ag scientists get married pic.twitter.com/ogItUPtbVG
— Channa Prakash (@AgBioWorld) December 7, 2024
Nymisha, a research scholar with the ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), and Kumar, an assistant manager with the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD), married each other on 5 December.
Their wedding invitation is not just a proof of their love for academics, but also a sneak peek into their love story. The ‘introduction’ to this “research paper” tells the invitees about how the couple met, fell in love and decided to spend their lives together—all by means of science.
“When the groom and the bride first saw each other, the groom developed a partial positive charge and was ready to share his electron with the bride,” the invitation reads. It goes on to describe how the “thermodynamic and kinetically stable parameters” (the parents of the bride and groom) “catalysed the transition state to proceed forward to form a stable covalent bond forever”.
Their love for soil science can be gauged from the fact that they picked 5 December—World Soil Day—for their wedding.
The invite places the wedding and reception details in a tabular format, highlighting the date and time.
In 2022, the wedding invitation of another Indian-origin research scientist, Sunil Kumar Sahu from the China National GeneBank (CNGB), was widely circulating on social media. The invitation to Sahu’s wedding with a former banker was also carefully designed as a research paper.
Many social media users applauded the creative invite by Nymisha and Kumar. “This is so cool, I hope they enjoy a spectacular life together,” read a post on X.
Another user jokingly asked, “Where is the DOI?”
A DOI or digital object identifier is a unique number given to research articles to identify a particular publisher.
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