Wedding as such is a time to celebrate and needless to mention, my best friend's wedding is obviously a heavier reason for all my extra excitement. Asha is definitely a lucky dame for the way things have worked out for her have been awesome! A telugu-Hyderabadi gurl, an illad-Mallu guy and both living in the Kannada land... wooo... ain't it "Zimbly South" :D Frankly, I was a bit apprehensive about the south indian integration that has to happen for everything to go just fine and today I'm mighty glad for it was splendid. Them being a BITSian couple adds the special charm, I guess.
Wedding ceremonies, poojas and relatives had started at Asha's place right from Thursday morning but the real fun part seeped in with the Mehndi and Sangeet spanning the whole of Saturday. Bride's Mehndi took me near about six hours and with Neeta, Harsha and Shruti entertaining us with their Varsham dance and occassional lakalakalaka leaving us in a fit of crazy laughter, it almost felt like no time. Rashmi and few other friends joined us in the evening before Harish's parents and relatives came home for another of those haldi-chandan rituals followed by dinner. Post dinner, started the enthu packed Nach-Gaana session where e v e r y b o d y had a ball. We spared neither the groom's mother nor the bride's father. It was great fun! Later in the night while putting mehndi to aunty and rest of Asha's relatives... all their 'malle poolu - mile dooram' stories took the center stage ;) LOL!!
On the wedding day, after getting Asha all decked up for the wedding I was obviously going to get late coz my deck wudn't take any short time for sure.. lol!! and guess who else was with me.. Rashmi... now u know why I afford to call myself fast! :D After an hour and after some 21 calls from my bumchums, I finally reached the hall and was soon all over the place. hehehe... The wedding and the lunch were real good! Everything happened the way it should and Asha is now a better woman ;p Later in the evening was her Vidaai - a tough moment for any girl. Asha's mom was no different from any mother sending off her only daughter to live on her own. She was crying her heart out. I don't know what happened to me suddenly, I became so restless and my eyes were searching frantically for that lady in green standing exactly at the opposite end from where I was standing, suppressing her own tears and shooting furtive glances at me. Mom.
I already cried a bucket before Asha came upto me to say bye. She softly said in my ear, "Idiot! I'm happy re!" *giggles* now this was tooo reassuring and also the look on Harish's face when I asked him to take good care of Asha, made me so comfortable again! Before I realised whatz happenning further, the grand vidai baarat started with all the loudness and massness. Starcast of the baarat dance, Asha's brother Sriram and gang... uncontrollably zonked by the music I must say. The fireworks added to the grandeur of that starry night.
The celebration was "pompous" in the true sense of the word but the enthu I had expected from BTR for its first wedding definitely fell less. Neva mind garals... the next one [mine ;)] has to be nothing less than 'Great!' ... lekapothe kosi karame :D So, herez me wishing Mrs. & Mr. Harish Sivaramakrishnan a very happy married life, a great reception at Kochi and brilliant time at Maldives. Thus begins... Chapter Asharish! :)
