Creative Entrepreneur| Business Builder| Technophile
Working on making the dream of destination weddings come true with Indian Wedding Planners and Vyom, Jaipur. This has been the motto of Anant Khandelwal, the director of INDIAN WEDDING PLANNERS, MR. CHILL COLD CHAIN LOGISTICS LLP & CLUB LITHIYUM DELHI. Born and brought up in a middle-class family of Jaipur, He was a bright student and planned
to pursue his career in engineering like every other young boy. He even enrolled himself for an IIT preparatory course but destiny had something else for this young man. Engineering didn’t excite him as much as he thought and he dropped the idea & returned back home. Undecided about a career, he felt thrilled and fascinated about meeting new people, developing liaisons, travelling and making do adventurous things. The days that followed were spent discussing possible business prospects with buddies over tea at every “chai ki thadi”. Meanwhile, fate was playing mean. The familial circumstances shifted drastically. His father faced huge losses in business. Just to make ends meet, he did any meagre job that came his way, be it selling newspaper, driving etc. The due conditions at home front and his incomplete educational profile were a limitation to his dream of doing something big. Still not losing hope and his will power, he borrowed a small sum of Rs. 5,000 from his grand mother for a course in event management. With this sum he could only partially pay the course fee. The journey from there has been quite eventful. During his course, he worked as trainee at several events. The stipend earned from there helped him depositing the remaining course fee and made him buy his first bike. His keen interest, fighting spirit and a desire to learn quickly made him efficient pass out. Soon, after finishing the course, he set up his company Indian Wedding Planners. The first assignment that he received was of Rs. 1,00,000/- for a wedding event. As they say, judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it. He gave up everything what a 20-year-old would never to become what he is today. Just within 8 years of its inception, Indian Wedding Planners is today, one of the most successful wedding planning venture in Rajasthan. A firm believer in “Karma” and “Destiny”, he says, it was his luck when his paths crossed with Kartika Sharma. His business partner now for almost all the 7 years, is a commerce graduate and loves her work with all her soul. Together they have accomplished numerous successful projects that have set new benchmarks in the industry. On a personal front he is a party lover and a brand freak. They say, opposite attract, in his case it was slightly different from the usual. He met Saurabh Katyal, like minded, his idol, brother and a true inspiration for him. The desire to do more has led him spread his wings in extended areas also. Now, he is a director of Mr. Chill Cold Chain logistics LLP and Club Lithiyum, New Delhi. He is an apt example of sheer hard work and a “go for it spirit” that has taken him so long in this tryst. But he has more milestones to set and reach out to the stars.
