Big Bazaar!

This is one bad summer!whew!

It is May and it is time for most couples out here to tie the knot.

Yesterday I was watching a documentary on an NRI family marrying their daughter off to a Canadian guy. The wedding was lavish and there was a huge party that followed.But what really surprised me was their strict adherence to tradition.I don't have a problem with people following their traditions nor with lavish weddings.But sometimes weddings out here resemble rooms filled with the expensive & dead furniture.A party where God definitely seems to be left out.

The documentary I was watching was of this broken NRI family where the Husband walked out on his Wife and the kids walked out on their Mother.But somehow they all came together for that occassion.

Last night the ladies at my place were discussing about a certain guy.He is 30, well-educated, loaded, good-looking..blah,blah!..but hasnt found a bride yet.His folks visited numerous houses but didnt find a suitable match. One of their potential matches happened to be a pretty girl who was well-educated and 24, but they refused cause she happened to be unemployed. Weeks later they heard from a source that the girls family was ready to pay her groom a suitable sum of money as dowry(25 lakhs).Now when the guy and his folks returned to her,they were shown the door, not surprisingly.

Years back,when I was in school I remember going to a wedding where the groom arrived in a helicopter( ROTFL!) and the invites had a gold coin in it.However this wedding lasted less than a year.

Heard at a wedding party"The guy is good.They must have paid a fortune to get him."

Let the wine flow...