Today is the day the much-awaited event occurs – the wedding! I know I’ve been delinquent with my blog entries, but whattodo? Whattodo? At the pace things have been coming together (and falling apart – only in India I say!) it’s hard to keep the sanity in any situation!
For instance, at last night’s kick-off function, we were told that Oct 8th was declared a “dry day” in India because it was the Mahatma Gandhi week. What does “dry day” mean – you ask? Well, it means that no alcohol is to be served or sold ANYWHERE. Implications? You invite brown people to a brown function and say that no alcohol will be served – let’s just say that it’s not good.
To top it off, some key people pull a no-show in the last second (even after a double and triple confirmation!). For the function yesterday (a henna party) we were supposed to have a bangle lady show up and distribute bangles to all the ladies in the crowd. She doesn’t show up (due to some confusion and death in her family) and my sister (the bride) warns here that there will soon be another death in the family! *lol* I think my sister is somewhere in Shivaji market right now beating down the store owners – ahhhh bridezillas!
It starts raining (and the monsoon season is supposed to be over!) and rain seeps through the roof of the house leading to a possible flooding issue (4 hours before the event). And despite all the water in the dining area, there is no water in the taps to take a shower with.
Electricity decides to pull a no show as well.
We show up at the event and realize there is no laptop for the power point presentation that we’ve prepared for Nisha and Yeyati – and the entire five start establishment Le Meridien doesn’t have a single laptop to loan us. We trudge back home to pick a laptop up to realized that we didn’t bring the house keys. Come back to the party, pick up the keys and go back home. This too in heavy, chaotic traffic! Thankfully they loved the presentation! *Kudos to Saachi (Yeyati’s brother), John (Yeyati’s bestfriend) and Uncle Mohan for pulling this off!
It’s amazing how I’m still sane to report on these…my sister believes that the wedding is jinxed *lol* This morning, to prepare my sister for the wedding we will smear her with tumeric powder that has been pre-applied by her groom Yeyati. A cousin of Yeyati’s commented on feminist lines on how unfair it was to re-use the groom’s powder for the bride, isn’t it demeaning, etc? My response – “Dude….if it makes the wedding go any faster, I’d put the damned tumeric all over myself and use it in my kitchen for cooking as well!!! Let’s get this show on the road people!”.
Hopefully I’ll be able to report on tonight’s events tomorrow morning – till then, pray for no rain (coz the wedding dinner is on the terrace with no tents!). *Sonia types this as she gazes outside her window and sees the fast approaching dark clouds, pregnant with moisture, just waiting patiently for the auspicious wedding hour to approach*
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Awesome... I want to see more pictures :P
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