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Shraddha

@lashy

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Posted: 20 years ago

hi guys,

The chunni chadaana, mehendi, Sangeet and the Wedding party celebrations were extremely grand. Dekho snaps bhi dhokhe aa gaye

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BHARAAT
The Bharaat is arriving in extreme grandeouse where all of Purushottam Suri's side is busy dancing to the band. There is a surge of fireworks and Lights as the bharaat grinds to a halt in front of the wedding hall. Mrs Amrit Walia is joined by pammi, bammi and jammi buaas to take aarti of the dulha. The dads and uncles in a pink turban and the moms and aunts in grand kanchipuram sarees. The whole bharaat is an event to feast upon. The groom's parents and the bride's parents take out bundles and garlands of 500 Rs notes to remove the nazar from the bride and the groom.

RECEPTION
All of us IF INVITEES feverishly dancing to the tunes of songs like bole chudiyaan, mehendi lagaake rakhna, Le jayenge dilwale dulhaniya le jayenge & didi teraa devar while firecrackers still going baam phewwww at the background. Armaan Suri joins a brief dance with the bride Jasmeet Walia and all of us IFians. After all the hungama is done with, the elders then assure the bride and the groom to the reception mandap where they exchange garlands. Its time for reception followed by the dinner now. We go to the mandap to hand over our gifts and boquets to the bride and groom and to be part of a KODAK moment with them.

So, If any of you have any personal experiences with your own marriages do write them out here for us to read - you can post your own wedding snaps here for us to see. If you are not yet married, you can write about your brother's, sister's, cousin's, uncle's, aunt's or even friend's wedding. All those lovely experiences of excitement, humour, sorrow everything and family. It would be very nice if everyone would participate and share their tit-bits.

Edited by lashforever - 20 years ago

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@chatterbox

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Posted: 20 years ago

👏👏 lovely shradda u r doin grt job and congrats for being moderator

oops sorry shradda i m editing it. didnt mean to offend u or anyone

i wud think of my experience and post it again have to go back in time now for that

sorry again dear

Edited by likejassi - 20 years ago

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cutelovelygirl

@cutelovelygirl

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Posted: 20 years ago

LOvely Lsh

I have my wedding photos.. but don have the dancin photos of the barathis as my Weddin was quite far and every1 went by car

Will think of one another experience and post it later

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mika

@mikagurl23

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Posted: 20 years ago

Awesome shradda didi! 👏 And congratz!!

umm well, my marriage ought to happen in about 10 to 12 years or even less, who knows! lol! Maybe I should shar my cousin sisters marriage!

well not to be racist, but my cousin sister married a white person named steve because they fell in love in high school, so they got married, and i was the flower girl and i twas like 6 years old. Then at the reception i was doing some YMCA hand movements and I was the center of attention for cuteness and then steve, he started copying me and the rest did as well, and he picked me up and we danced. It was soo cool!!! lol! And i guess that all i remember, i still have the flower girl bucket! 😃 Even if he was white, they still did an indian marriage, i don't know how he understood my language though, it was wierd. He like knew how to do everything, maybe it was practiced?

Edited by mikagurl23 - 20 years ago

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Shraddha

@lashy

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Posted: 20 years ago

that was lovely mikaaaa 😳

well a marriage is something that involves so many people of different age groups and so many events happening - many cheerful things happen while some unpleasant things happen too.........

My marriage was a south Indian middle class affair. My father has only one brother and we as a family are very close to my unlce (kaka's) family. Infact for a brief period of 5 years we have lived together as a joint family. But after my dad and uncle both got separate jobs, one stayed back at the gulf and the other came back to India.
When my wedding was announced, it was obvious that it would be my kaka and kaki that would do the maximum running around. They arrived more than a week early just to help out with the preparations. Unlike north indian weddings, our weddings are a complete 2 day event in the mandap and both the bride and groom's families and friends stay back for almost 3 days at the wedding hall itself.
The first day early morning, when my kaka was getting ready to bathe quickly to help out with the arrangements, he slipped and fell on the closet that in turn broke in two and the sharp piece of porcelain, cut his on his leg deeply. He was immediately rushed to the hospital, where he was given stitches under anaesthetia. He stayed at the hospital for 3 hours but couldnt stay longer and wanted to join us back at the hospital. The minute he stepped into the hall limping and wincing with pain, all of us sitting on the mandap, started weeping.
It is a very emotional episode for me even today. How I wish this didnt have to happen. But we want something and God wills the other way.

Another funny episode that happened was during the bharaat - its generally done in a fancy car and not a horse in our culture, but my parents wanted to make the bharaat fancier and ordered for a chariot instead.
It is a norm that when the groom's bharat is on its way, the bride and her friends "secretly" in another car cross the bharaat to catch a glimpse of the arriving party. When I was doing this, my hubby managed to catch me in the car some distance away. He stood up in his chariot, made all the young cousins sitting next to him get down; and said that he would not allow the bharaat to proceed unless i join him there. It was sooo embarassing for me.
But he was adamant and said that as I had come all the way, he wanted me in the chariot too. Ultimately, I gave in.....
has anyone ever heard of the bride and groom arriving in a bharaat together????????😆 The old ones had a totally different thing to say at the marriage hall, but we have our fair share of laughs now. 😛

Edited by lashforever - 20 years ago

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Kiran

@KiRaN_K

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Posted: 20 years ago

😳😳omg...lash that is choooooo chweet..and romantic!....bharat togther!!i would be sooo emabarrsed.😳.😆,,,,very different and unique!..

sry i am not married yet..so i have no stories..😛..and i haven;t been to a wedding since i was 6 years old....but my friends cousin is getting married.l=..and im going to the engagement....the 13th...lol

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Aabha

@Aabha

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Posted: 20 years ago

That's sooooooo sad and sooooooo funny Lash!! Pretty name by the way!!....Shraddha....I like it!!...anyhoo!....the only actual complete wedding that I've attended from beginning to end is my cousin-brother's wedding!!
My papa, didi and I had arrived a couple of days earlier to the hotel to check out the city of Los Angeles!!...Three days later, everyone else showed up too....well all of the groom's side of the family anyway😉! Because my bhabhi had just taken her tests to be able to practice medicine...she had done her MBBS in India....she had just gotten a job and was not allowed to take a lot of time off....so the typical Punjabi wedding was cut short and was compressed into two days!!! We had the lunch for both families, the mehndi ceremony, the sangeet all in one day...lolz....and night...and had to be up bright and early for the photographer who was scheduled to be there at 7am....we got back to the hotel at about 1 or 1:30 am from the previous night before from the Sangeet and were soooo pooped!!🤢.....I couldn't tell my front from my back at 7 in the morning!!

So the next day comes and we all get up at around 7:30 am...boy was the photographer mad!!! I didn't have to face his anger, but I had to face my papa's, dadaji's, uncle's, chachaji's anger....that didn't go so well...hehe...not well at all actually😕. Finally, we all get to the Gurudwara....my cousin-bro didn't actually ride to the Gurudwara on a horse...lolz...but he hired a farmer to bring his horse so that he could ride the horse from the parking lot to the entrance of the Gurudwara😆😆😆....that was a sight to see!!!! Then we all entered the Gurudwara....the wedding happened.....it was so beautiful!!!....I wanted to cry....lolz....but I didn't because there were so many cameras rolling and taking pics that I was just holding it in!!!😉 Being that I was only sixteen....I was overawed by the handsome eligible bachelors that were waaaaaaaaaay older than me but were Oh-so-delicious to look at!!! One looked like Nicholas Cage, with light brown eyes....and was in a navy-blue suit...lookin' yummy...hehe....but not as yummy as Armaan!!!😳😳(I think he's sooo cute!!!....it's ok if you guys don't). Then there was one guy who was my age...but he looked like a gansta-wannabe....fake brown-colored hair with blonde highlights...ewww...and he was checking me out...(Abs shudders).....thank goodness we left the Gurudwara after that....that guy was creeping me out!

In the evening was the reception....I was looking fab I must say.....I was wearing Pink!!!....a pink lehngha with a silver border and sequins here and there....there wasn't as much excitement during the reception but I remember that we all danced the night away!!! My bhaiyas were trying to find girls for themselves and ending up hitting on the same girls unknowingly....hehe....one moment that I'll never forget!!!😆😆😆

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mika

@mikagurl23

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Posted: 20 years ago

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Omg that is soo funny!Shraddha didi and aabha, wow, fabulous! and Kiran, yay, we are unmarried! that was really funny! Wow!!! In another wedding It was my best friend's sisters wedding, well you know when your from the girls side, you always look for the groom's shoes? Well we were doing that and trying really hard. We didn't find it, infact we found someone elses shoes, we were fooled. And at the end, the shoes were hidden right up on the mandap and the grooms friend kept saying,"think high!" and we were thinking high! lol but it was high and never even thought of it! In another wedding, me and my friends found the shoes and we switched it with her uncles and then we got money! woohoo! lol

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Mallika

@marvelous.malks

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Posted: 20 years ago

Wow! Shradda..that was choo chweeet!!! Aabha..way to goo...!! i will write mine later on, NO NOT MY WEDDING, but my UNCLES...lol

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Aabha

@Aabha

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Posted: 20 years ago

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Originally posted by: mikagurl23
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Omg that is soo funny!Shraddha didi and aabha, wow, fabulous! and Kiran, yay, we are unmarried! that was really funny! Wow!!! In another wedding It was my best friend's sisters wedding, well you know when your from the girls side, you always look for the groom's shoes? Well we were doing that and trying really hard. We didn't find it, infact we found someone elses shoes, we were fooled. And at the end, the shoes were hidden right up on the mandap and the grooms friend kept saying,"think high!" and we were thinking high! lol but it was high and never even thought of it! In another wedding, me and my friends found the shoes and we switched it with her uncles and then we got money! woohoo! lol

What are you talking about Mika??...lolz...I'm not married...I'm only 19 dear!!...lolz...thank God for that😆😆😆

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