maKhsuusMonday, January 16, 2006
Plans...The day we reached my native place was 13th December 2004. It started with meeting my Kakima and Didi... they were happy to see her and relieved to see me finally decided about my shaadi. It was decided that our engagement would happen at 7:00 pm followed by nikah at 8:52 on 14th December 2004.
My parents never felt they were meeting her for the first time. We were behaving as if we knew each other since childhood and our family arranged our marriage when we were a year old. This pic was taken by her mom for us. I love this pic. It says it all.
The atmosphere in the house was wonderful. People coming and going. Lots of noise, lots of chaos, lots of mithais and chai's. Almost everyone from my dad's extended family (there are more than 150 members) came to meet her. She was too confused to remember who was who. She still is :-)
She was supposed to get her mehendi done on 13th. One of my friends wife was called to put mehendi on her hands and feet. I was with her all the time, taking pics, annoying her all the time and eating as and when and whatever I could eat. Mom was tired of making stuff for me on request then I asked her to give me whatever was ready in the kitchen.It took almost the whole day to
apply mehendi all over her hands... in front and at the back, upto her elbows and tatoos on her shoulder. There was no time for mehendi on her feet. So it was decided that my friend's wife would come next day morning to apply on her feet. In the evening we had to go to our maulvi's place to fill in the nikah forms. For her it was like walking on a rope with all the mehendi on her arms... trying not to touch her hands anywhere and to keep them straight all the time. She did a good job. The mehendi was still intact when she came back. The forms were filled. Only signatures remained, those were supposed to be done in front of everyone, the next day...
Saleem Pothiwala ::
4:38 PM ::
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