Sushmita and Nabin met at university in Kathmandu and dreamed of a pre-wedding shoot in the mountains they used to trek. We built a two-day itinerary around light, calm water, and the couple's actual chemistry.

Morning one began with a rowing boat on Phewa Lake at first light. By afternoon we were in the streets of Lakeside for candid frames. Day two ended above the clouds at Sarangkot.

The reel closes with them writing in a shared journal — the same one they'll bring to their wedding mandap next winter.