They say there is a first time for everything- missing your bus to get somewhere, forgetting the most important thing when travelling, tasting new dishes. Well, there's also the first time you fall for someone, hard and fast.
Weddings, ah...seen it everywhere- in the family, among friends; but when it happens to you, well, let's just say you'll never see your feet leave the ground. Mine was an arranged marriage and I must say, it was a totally amazing experience. No matter how much you tease your elder cousins or siblings at their weddings, when it comes to yours the story is altogether different. Not just because it's your turn to be teased, its the whole experience of it, the way it feels like you can't be touched by anything negative. Just pure unadulterated happiness. The one day that's yours and truly yours.
Having gone through the experience recently, I must say it was quite a bucket load of memories. And having to share all of this with someone special makes them even more memorable. From the beginning to the end of it, you are pampered by everybody. It's a total package.
The constant activity is one of the most beautiful memories of a wedding. Though months of hard work went into the two days of the wedding, though you are so tired to even talk to everybody around you, though you have to get ready in really fast (in sarees no less), though the photographer tells you to smile constantly (so much that your jaw hurts), it's all worth it in the end.
Speaking of weddings, there is a lot to be said about the iyer tambram weddings. Though I've seen a lot of them before, they all seem to some unique aspect about them. All the rituals we've got in our weddings are just incomparable to the others and beautifully crafted by our ancestors. Each of the rituals has a meaning and when believed so strongly by everybody around you, it becomes imbibed in you as well.
Best of all is the joy that spreads through you when you realize you can share all the happiness with someone new, someone who will always be there, someone you adore and who just went through the entire non stop rituals of the last two days with you, for you.
Weddings, ah...seen it everywhere- in the family, among friends; but when it happens to you, well, let's just say you'll never see your feet leave the ground. Mine was an arranged marriage and I must say, it was a totally amazing experience. No matter how much you tease your elder cousins or siblings at their weddings, when it comes to yours the story is altogether different. Not just because it's your turn to be teased, its the whole experience of it, the way it feels like you can't be touched by anything negative. Just pure unadulterated happiness. The one day that's yours and truly yours.
Having gone through the experience recently, I must say it was quite a bucket load of memories. And having to share all of this with someone special makes them even more memorable. From the beginning to the end of it, you are pampered by everybody. It's a total package.
The constant activity is one of the most beautiful memories of a wedding. Though months of hard work went into the two days of the wedding, though you are so tired to even talk to everybody around you, though you have to get ready in really fast (in sarees no less), though the photographer tells you to smile constantly (so much that your jaw hurts), it's all worth it in the end.
Speaking of weddings, there is a lot to be said about the iyer tambram weddings. Though I've seen a lot of them before, they all seem to some unique aspect about them. All the rituals we've got in our weddings are just incomparable to the others and beautifully crafted by our ancestors. Each of the rituals has a meaning and when believed so strongly by everybody around you, it becomes imbibed in you as well.
Best of all is the joy that spreads through you when you realize you can share all the happiness with someone new, someone who will always be there, someone you adore and who just went through the entire non stop rituals of the last two days with you, for you.
There's a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.
It doesn't take long for a kid to become a teenager, takes the teenager even longer to take on responsibilities of an adult, but what takes the longest time is the acceptance of taking the responsibility of each other after the wedding. Some say this is automatic and comes naturally, but to be prepared for this mentally is not very easy. But it does get easier when you have that special bond with your spouse.Dave Grohl
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
Robert A. Heinlein
True !! But does it require this sort of publicity to get two souls together ?? Time to think about the big fat indian weddings...
ReplyDeletethis is not publicity.. this was an open wedding with family and friends.. its not the question of whether it's required or not, its about how much happiness it give the couple..this is just my experience on how much I enjoyed it...
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