Marriage and celebrations: Happiness beyond budget

wedding-1You live but once and will even marry just once. Perhaps.

Naturally, you want to make it once in a lifetime affair – grand event that would be one of its kind. I remember, my middle class sensibilities taken aback, when a maid who was close to us invited us to our daughter’s wedding and while giving us the card informed, with a triumphant expression on her face, ‘DIJU bhi hai!’ She, even with her limited resource, had even made provision for a DJ who will take the gathering to the rapturous high.

I have been to lots of weddings—highbrow and hip to tribal and non-traditional, and once, that was a sort of miserly affair, as one of the guests in the absence of band and baaja commented that it seemed it was a cortege that we, the baarati were accompanying.

Except for that last event where the groom’s father overdid his effort to turn it into a frugal affair, marriage is a scene of raucous celebrations. Perhaps it is the only event, except for our birth in life that is so filled with uncertainty and yet is full of possibilities. It is a journey of two individuals, their hearts brimming with trepidation, which at the same timeis also hopeful about theirfuture, together.

Is it the uncertainty that we want to do away with? Or is it the happiness that we want to share? But who cares. It’s my marriage, my folks, come in large numbers, bless us with your company, have fun, make merry and go back with memories, exclaiming, “O, what a celebration it was!”

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