India's star shuttlers, Saina Nehwal and Parupalli Kashyap have entrusted their respective parents to oversee all preparations for their December 16 marriage and reception in Hyderabad. “Our parents are working on our behalf and we have not participated in any [ preparatory] activity at all,” Saina told mid-day recently.

Saina, 28, didn’t want to dwell too much into how her relationship with Kashyap, 32, blossomed. “It was destiny. We are good friends ever since we started playing badminton. We have been to each and every tournament on the international circuit since 2004 when we played Junior World Cup held in Canada.