Wedding of North Indian Mulga and Marathi Mulgi!

Wedding of North Indian Mulga and Marathi Mulgi!

Last Sunday, I went to pune to attend wedding of VP and Gargi! And god what fun it was! I enjoyed the twists and turns things, which by the way started right when I left Mumbai!

When I went to take my Volvo ticket, I got one immediately and bus also came on time. For the first time I was able to leave within 5 min and was happy to save time! But my happiness was short lived, as bus became very hot and suffocating! Ac stopped working and after 45 minutes of traveling like this, travelers created hue and cry, leading to call for a new bus!!

Anyways, I reached there, went to VPs home. Now he is from Lucknow and generally north Indian weddings are full of people. However, pune being so far, only close family members were there. So for “Janeu”, when the pandit called for five male members, there were only 4 J aunty got a bit emotional saying “hamare yahaan shaadi me 500 logon ko koi nahi poochhata, yahaan 5 ki kami hai!” finally I was asked to join and rasm was completed duly!

Then came “Kuan Pujai” where ppl go to a well to worship it. So, after discussions, a “well” was to be made outside home. VP’s jija ji did the hard work, using “kitchen knife” and “kalchhi” J he he…it was so much fun to watch him doing that using kitchen knife J (I have the snaps, but cant upload right now, shall do it later). Finally ek kuaan bana, jise dhoondhana padta tha gaur se taaki vo dikh jaye….and vo kuaan itna bada tha ki spoon se paani bhara ja sakta tha J he he !!

But god had different plans, and in Mid Nov, it started raining! And so it was all water everywhere !! har jagah kuaan hi kuaan dikh raha tha J so, we could use that for kuaan pujai. During this time, the driver of the car which to be used by VP, was slipping in the car, with AC on. Result – Battery went down, and in the rain, dhakka dene ki jarrorat aa gayi. By that time everyone was already ready, except me J so I volunteered and tried hard..but cud not do it alone. I was joined by another frnd of VP who arrived just then. We were enjoying the whole episode, but in the end, car didn’t start. So immediately another car was arranged. An “Audi” was sent by sayaji hotel and so VP enjoyed the luxary of Audi in his marriage J

However, marriage was planned in open area, and rain resulted in all the samaan being shifted to a small hall and a corridor was used in the hotel J it was so cute and funny. Sayaji being a five star hotel, many foreigners were there and when they saw the corridor being used for Indian wedding, a lot of curious eyes started surrounding us J

We enjoyed meeting a lot of people from my old Infosys days. Meeting them was so fun. Met Ketan also, my project manager in Infosys. Food was good. We all made a group and did some masti with the big greetings card I had bought for VP and Gargi! I hope, both of them would like it!

Anyways….a fully fun filled day!

Note: Would be interesting to know Raj Thakarey’s view on bhaiya log wedding marathi mulgi!! I guess, he would ask for preference of marathi boy for local girls J he he ..just kidding!