The Great Indian
Wedding
A rare day after long when I have nothing really important to do. Just
feeling bliss full after those busy days at work and home. The wedding times,
the event at office the official training, all left me tired and exhausted but
yes definitely with more knowledge, experience,
emotions and a step closer to be a better person and you know that’s the best
part.
So many different experience and different set of people, environment
and culture.
At one point of time I was in my home town in this heat to
attend a close cousins wedding where I met loads of Agony aunts whose basic
motto to attend the wedding is to know who is doing what and where and why? "beta you have changed a lot," "Itni se thi jab tujhe dekha tha!" are the common phrases we hear when we go to home town after long (Arnt there obvious answers to these questions.... aree itne saalo baad mili hu toh badi ho he jaungeena...lol..) but probably when i grow old i might also respond in the same way under such situations, you never know ..oops! but I just
reverted back to all of them with smile (of course a fake one) just to give them
a feeling I am not rude. (But I was not really interested to answer all the questions
making them restless about me!! Huh! )
Heavily Dressed up ladies were worried about their hair and running
make up due to the heat of month may and constantly cribbing “log garmiyo mein
kyun shaadi karte hai, ache se tyaar bhi nai ho sakte” lol.
Elder groups behaving most formally and overly respectfully
with each other because they are either from groom or brides side…and its curtesy to show respect. It’s a another story
that this day is the last day of receiving maximum respect.
My poor groom cousin was patiently (just looked , he was not
internally ) sitting on the stage waiting for his bride to accompany him at the
earliest …to get rid of the marriage
rituals and photography sessions in this scorching heat but he dare not express the above feeling
from hi s face.. How can he? He was the Jamai raja after all and is suppose to
smile the whole night today whatever he may feel deep inside..lol..
Not only my cousin after a while I started pitying the couple (including the new bride dressed
up in the heaviest red dress and
accessories ) on the stage silently following
our Indian wedding norms by standing up every
time someone comes to greet them on that huge stage and smiling mandatory to
have a good click .. And the most irritating part was few annoying kids from
both side of the family torturing the couple from every corner coming, clinging
to them, giggling and posing for n no. of photographs.Huffs!
most fun part was to see the just new daughter- in -law and mother- in- law being so closely bonded emotionally and showering the maximum love and care
for the first and the last time… what happens later is a story known to every Indian
MIL and DIL...HaHaHa …Irony! Isn’t?
Yes the best part was when I felt happy to meet some old
childhood faces … grown up as dads, mums and ready to discuss and gossip about
the mysteries of each others life.he he, it was nice :-) I was also surprised and laughed inside to notice few people who just came to pounce
on only and only food and then vanish, I am sure they must not be even remembering
the faces of the bride and groom who were the main sufferers of the big day.
Here ended The Great Indian
Wedding J there is much more my eyes observed but not everything can be captured here. In short it was fun to revive the ironies of Indian
wedding in my mind while I was travelling back and decided to share some glimpse in my next blog.
If you happen to attend any wedding post reading this… enjoy,
I am sure you will have more fun now In spite of this heat :-)
Thanks for reading J
Stay Blessed! Jaya
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