Shaadi di vadhaiyaan

Hi Reader,

Its really been a long time to talk to you.. I was busy in my boring asusual office life and
didn't find time for myself to spend time with you.Sometimes it becomes really tough to forget everything and do some silly stupid things for yourself or for others.

So here I am again to share my another experience ..
On Jan 20th, I was invited to attend a South Indian Wedding (It was almost a self invitation..because I joined my cousin invitation)
I went to her home to meet her and she decided to took me to wedding (we both don't know who is going to be married but then also we wanted to attend wedding or it was punjabi blood feeling inside us  to have a free grand lunch there).

We received an  invitation card like this :
You are cordially invited to attend wedding with family
                               Ramanan H.J.K.P
                                      weds
                               Geetha J.I.Y.T
(The names were using many characters .. so i am taking intials.. )

Muhurtham Time : 10:00 am  (Thank god it was not morning 6:00 am.. It can be !! )
Then something something.. in curve shaped letters.

It was 9:00 am , i reached at my cousin's place and we both decided ...what not to wear on wedding instead of what to wear (It  normally happens with girls and if there are unexpected and sudden invitations)
It was perfect time to get ready for occassion but as per our Delhi-North Indian Wedding Norms we should be there not late then 12:30 pm .(it should be minimum 2 hours late than official  card timings)
We started our journey towards venue place with a bag full of diapers,biscuits,milk,napkins (for my cousin's son), a bag having cosmectics,tissue paper,one more purse,one more small pouch, jewellery , @#$$%, etc etc. That day, I realised the value of diaper if you hold a small baby wearing a bright new dress.
It was sunday afternoon and we were discussing our favourite topics like food, jewellery, etc.(Wedding Mood) and traffic was same like weekdays.We took left, right then left ... passed so many traffic signal, speed breakers, road bumpers etc etc

Finally we reached there at 12:46 pm sharp (Felt different when we saw extra sharped faces looking towards us in strange manner)The entrance was very beautiful and it was besides a temple so for a minute we got confused between a temple and venue place.It was decorated by garlands and couple name was imprinted on them. (we guessed it was couple name .. it was written in Kannada language)This made us excited  for a while and we both looked each other with a smile. We entered Hall, and saw wedding couple greeting everyone with smiling yet tired faces after all it was their WEDDING.

Bride was looking really beautiful , wearing a blue silk saree and Gold ornaments equal to her weight.
She was looking like a queen wearing flowers.Groom was also looking nice and wearing a very simple silk Kurta with veshti (dhoti). Both were  busy in greeting everyone and collecting gifts.
I was eager to help them in collecting gifts but 3-4 over active persons were there to help them out.

We also brought a gift for them (i still don't know what was inside !!)
(it was GIFT transfer policy we ususually apply in such situations when you don't have time to buy a new one.. Gift Gifted by someone=gift gifted to someone)
By the time we reached stage , we got to know that we are already late as per their South Indian wedding Norms and have only one reason to save us - "Baby was hungry so it took time for us to get  ready "(with extra smiling face )
South Indian Wedding traditional Rituals were over and we became sad when we heard about it.
but still Lunch Serving ritual were there for us (we become really happy because we don't have to show our starving faces anymore)They told us to proceed and we started searching Lunch hall (A human can search better than a RAT or DOG if he is hungry)

Some more sharped faces were standing there and staring us , but we didn't care this time and entered Lunch Hall. Tables and chairs were lined up there in nice summetry and it was looking like a clean Hostel Mess.
We sat there for a while and showed our starving faces ,

a person came near to us and look into our eyes with pity and placed  Banyan leaves in front of us.
I literally jumped from my seat when i saw a line of guys coming towards us and bringing hot food buckets.
They poured 6 types of chutneys in front of us (I can't differentiate them by taste but their colour were surely different)and then they poured chanaa (It looked like choley but yeah taste was not same) ,
seasonal vegetable (still searching name, i think it was kind of mix-veg having unseen vegetables),daal (1 spoon was enough to taste),biryaani (it was ausum),plain rice , puri (no chapati, no roti, no fulka kind of thing) and curd. So, It was really grand feast for us if you have spend morning 6-7 hours without having anything except water.
Then suddenly i asked one person "Spoon ? ". and those sharped faces again stared me with big black eyes.
I looked around myself, everybody was busy eating with hands and
I also started eating with my own menicured hands without looking anywhere.
I finished my meal silently and about to leave my place then again some guys came and placed  a paper plate in front of us and put a dish over it.It looked like "Firni" and poured sweet thick milk (rabri) on it  and called it "paisam" .It was the best part in whole meal and I had it really well.

Then Finally we got up from our place amd threw  plates in basket.
They gave us one coconut, supari and coloured rice before leaving place with good wishes.

It was really a different wedding for me ..without any hip hop dance beats, crowded people, Food war, Bright lights, Standing queues etc.
 It was really a simple way to begin your life filled with wishes and greetings (and gifts too)
Wish them luck after all Marriage is marriage whether you do it in any way :)

At last I wished them : Shaadi di lakh lakh vadhaiyaan !!