INDIAN WEDDINGS....

Well well well...what do we have here. Do i hear the wedding bells ringing..Well actually i happend to go to a wedding this morning. Its a close family friends' daughters wedding. So i thought i'll shed some light on the stuff that happens other than the wedding itself.
When you think of wedding, what rings a bell inside. Food ( when there is a wedding in the family we dont count calories do we???),getting together of family members (your cousins from US,UK etc will be there giving there big time fundoos abt their LIFE in the respective countries),Music,dance,masti (till y'day only punjabi weddings has all this dance masti but trust me these days the south indian weddings equally rock esp these mamas and mamis).
Apart from all this there are a lot of behind the scene stuff that keeps happening in weddings. Let me tell you what they are. The parents of the most prospective brides will keep their eyes wide open to hook NRIs,IIMs,IITs.S/W prof for their modern yet traditional daughters. Once they set their eyes they either ask their relatives who they are and other family details or some of these parents directly approach the parents. Now the same theory applies to the prospective Bride grooms too. So you can see some really well dressed and well mannered pretty girls and equally good looking and well dressed guys exihibiting themselves. These days you need to market yourselves to get married ha...in weddings its brand repositioning and display of your competitive advantage say for example "my daughter sings so well,she has won a lot of prizes" or "my daughter cooks southindian,northindian,italian,mexican,chinese etc etc..very well" (ah the best way to reach a man's heart is indeed through the stomach,but you would'nt want him to be a glutton do u??). Then we have the guy's parents (the marketing president-dad and VP mom) saying "my son doesnt drink or smoke,he has a car,his own house,he can even cook (ah now thts a very interesting selling point,iam sure the girls will love that). Once the buyers are convinced then there is the horoscope exchange that happens. So one wedding sows seeds that reap into another one.
Then there are these old people who would've seen you about a decade back and will be astonished to see you grow into a big man or lady. They will be like"god the last time i saw you, you were this much ah time really flies ha,so you are the next one in the queue" (ah they really can get into your nerve ha). Then above all that they make a sarcastic statement "so will you make your parents work easy by bringing you choice of life partner or will it be arranged??" (this is it you cant take it anymore,so u just smile and pretend like you've got a call and run and hide)...
So the next time you go to a wedding beware coz you are under surveillance. One more warning try to keep yourself away from these oldies cos they really can make the hell freeze over your head.