Wedding aftermaths!

The wedding's over. I am back in Bangalore. I had no track of time when I was at home. So much to do and so little time. It all seemed a mad rush. Now that it's over I get the space to think over what happened in the past week. It all happened so fast. My sister introduced the idea at home, a visit by my parents to Hyderabad, engagement on Jan 21 and wedding a month later.

The wedding was hectic. It was a coming together of two different cultures and their respective rituals but all was well at the end of the day. The wedding was a huge learning for me. It put me face to face with a lot of facts that I chose to ignore all this while.

I realise that the people who stand next to you may not be the people you expect. It is easy to stand beside someone with talk, but supporting the person with action is very difficult. It becomes even more amazing when these are people who put aside all differences you have had with them over the years. I was touched by selflessness.

I also realise today that money is not something that rules the world. Relations and mutual understandings are all that matter at the end. There were a lot of trusts that were broken and a lot of new hopes that were made during this wedding. I have started to respect some people like I have never before and am happy for this wedding to be the cause for it!

I always lived in the premonition that love required a language that connects. I thought I could not love a person who never spoke my language. Seeing my sister and husband blissfully wed I broke that thinking. English has truly become a global language!

Anyways the wedding's over and I feel a strange peace now. I hope my sis has a happy married life!!

Happy Valentine's Day

Oh it's the day of love again!! There might be not much for me as an individual in this day but I have always loved the day from the time I knew about it!!It all seems like a long time to me now but the memories are sure sweet. There was once the hard core romantic in me who lived within Shah Rukh Khan movies. The character "Maya" that Madhuri potrayed in "Dil tho Pagal Hai" movie was absolutely me. I lived in a world of fantasy where everything around me was full of love and beauty. Just like her I believed there would be a "Sapno ka Raajkumar" who would come on that white horse some day. I believed in the fact that there is a "Mr. Right" somewhere out there!

Most of my "love" thoughts at those times were governed by films as life revolved between just school and parents. Life has come a long way since then. Now that I am in the so called "real" world I definitely don't believe that there is a "Mr. Perfect". There are hardly any guys out there who match that matrimonial "wanted" profile.

At those times love was the dreamy picture of a perfect guy to me. Now it is more of understanding the person who is with you and accepting the person for the guy he is. I have a friend who tells me that the very thing he doesn't like about having a girlfriend is that they are all nice during the first days when love is just blooming. But once the proposal is made then it is all about trying to change him and making him the perfect guy!

So for all those people out there who are in love, "All the best"! Cherish your love and accept it as it is. "Jo thumhe badalkar pyaar kare, wo pyaar nahi saahibaan"... Happy Valentine's Day!!!

Shopping, shopping and more shopping!

I never knew shopping could be so tiring. It has taken me a week to recover from the wedding shopping we did last week. Two short days and lots of shopping. Walking around, checking out stuff and buying loads of clothes. It was then I realised how many relatives I have and how much of shopping we had to do!

But then like all girls I loved those two days. Picturising what would look best on who, whether they would like it, wondering how to carry stuff, thinking what to wear on which day and so on! I bet my mom was the appiest woman on earth that day. I always say-Leave my mom in Shivaji Nagar bazaar with money in her hand she would never find a better way to spend a day!

Meanwhile I discovered a lovely saree shopping place, Nalli silks. I had always heard of the place and seen it on ads but was marvelled by the place. Sarees of all prices and all varieties. Any woman's fantasy. We bought the wedding and reception saree from here. The moment I cast my eyes on those sarees I knew it was "Love at first Sight"!! Great place to do a wedding shopping.

There's just a week to go and I feel there is so much more to do. It's slowly dawning on me that the moment is so near...