That Indian Wedding… Shaadi Aaye Jashan Manaaye

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Just when I think that I am going to be able to keep up with my dear bloggie, I get tied up with the rest of my life and don’t get a chance to update. No promises this time – going to do my best to write whenever the time permits.

I have been working on getting my music organized in my new desktop PC yesterday and today. Of course when that happens, I listen to the music that is there. Ever since I found all of the wonderful Punjabi wedding songs, I have been hooked to them. I am just a sucker for traditional Punjabi wedding songs.

This song talks about to the bride about how her “sehraiya wala” (sehra is the white flowers that covers the groom’s face in a traditional Punjabi wedding) groom will come and get married to her. Makes me think about the institution of marriage, and how lovely it really is. One of my most memorable moments in my life is when Neeraj and I got married in 2006. This blog is filled with those memories, prior to us getting married, during the marriage, and then afterwards.

As a child I remember telling my Mumma that I wouldn’t ever get married. I never wanted to leave my parents, my brother, or the life that I was living at that time. My Mumma would say to me, “Abhi tu aaise kah rahi hai, baad main har ladki ko shaadi karni hi hoti hai” (“Right now you are saying this, but at one time every girl wants to get married“). How she was right.

My wedding was in Jaipur, and the memories are in this blog if you want to read through them, but now this year I am excited that my brother, Suraj, is getting married. Bhabhiji (sister-in-law) is joining our family, and its really a wonderful feeling. My parents and I have waited for the time to see my brother to wear that sehra and whisk away his dulhan (bride).

I get to relive all of those wonderful wedding memories that I cherished during my own wedding, and now play a large part in organizing Suraj’s wedding. The ceremonies, the food, the clothes (saris, sherwanis, suits) the family, the teasing between the families, the saat phere, the dancing, the doli……Indian wedding are great… they are long…fun filled times..where you can celebrate two hearts joining and two families combining into one.

This is during the saat phere (7 rounds) ceremony

Since the day that I found out that my brother is going to be getting married, I have been telling my Mumma that anything that was left out in my wedding, I am going to fulfill in Suraj’s wedding. For instance, there is a “haldi” (turmeric powder) ceremony where the bride or groom sits and before getting ready for that night’s ceremony (usually happens the day before or the day of the wedding), all of the family members put the haldi on their faces, arms, legs, etc… before going to take a shower. Well the day that was suppose to happen for me, the mehendi (henna) lady had come to put mehendi on me, and so I couldn’t have the haldi ceremony. So now, I am going to make sure that my brother gets double the haldi (he doesn’t like this at all which makes it more fun ) during his wedding festivities.

I think I am going to go now and watch some of our wedding videos. Reminscing…

Alvida. Jai Mata Di.