Mumbai: Marriages are made in heaven - one wedding Saturday in Pune came pretty close.

Pune adventure sports enthusiast Shital Mahajan got married to Vaibhav Rane, working as a software engineer with Nokia in Finland, around 600 feet above the earth in a hot air balloon.

Hindu priest Milind Bildikar Guruji and Shital's father Kamlakar Mahajan accompanied the young couple in the small basket dangling below the huge multi-hued balloon.

Shital, 25, sported a red sari with golden designs while Vaibhav was attired in a cream-coloured churidar-kurta for the ceremony.

Though a bit wary of the swaying basket, Guruji chanted the Vedic hymns and conducted the 'saat pheras' around a makeshift 'havan' (going around the holy fire seven times) while the couple exchanged garlands.

Kamlakar "gave away" his daughter Shital to the groom.