Reflections Of Life

Wedding Day... Arun n Padma

Wednesday, December 14, 2005

My mom is second among 4 sisters and 2 brothers… When we six families meet, we are 24 of us… the kids are 12 in number, the eldest being the bridegroom of the day… I love spending time with this set of cousins and there was once a time when we used to meet every New Year’s Day at my grandfather’s place and cause all the commotion possible!! My mom’s elder sister’s sons Arun and Praveen are the only cousins elder to me and we three form a gang with my uncle (mom’s brother)… Both my cousins have completed their Masters in the US and are currently working there… so I get to see them only about once in two years… This wedding was an opportunity to see the whole gang again, though at the end, my youngest sis and one other cousin couldn’t turn up because of 10^th std exams L

The day started with a good two hours chat with Padma, getting to know each other… then met my whole family as they arrived from Chennai and next couple of hours went in filling in details to and from everyone whom I meet a couple of times in a year… Sent everyone except my two cousins on a sight seeing trip and we three sat together to have a long awaited chat about each other’s lives J

The functions began in the afternoon right after lunch… This was some kinda nail cutting ceremony for the bride and bridegroom where the guy who cut the nails earned a huge sum of money for a 5 minute job! (I am very ignorant about the necessities of these rituals, so they never stop being funny to me!) Couldn’t help thinking of how easy available alternate professions are!!

I wore a white saree in a Gujarati style with silver ornaments for the wedding in the evening… In our custom, it is mandatory to wear gold for the weddings and I have managed to break these rules for two weddings in a row now! Some other day, I should write on what are all the rules in our custom, I love to break.

I was the second official photographer of the day… I was fighting with the first one all the while as I wanted to occupy his space on the stage… I clicked every moment of the wedding and I was happy to show the results to my cousin n his wife just after the wedding got over! And my family did appreciate my photographic skills… and that reminds me of another alternate profession!

End of the day… another nice long chat with my cousins late into the night and I just couldn’t wake up to catch the morning train… Was very happy that I managed to attend this wedding and meet them all… I had a contented sleep in the train as all my books, courses and classes had been forgotten!

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