Winning Pick- Treatise- "Your Wedding Plan"

Wedding is considered to be an important phase in the human life when the individual decides to choose a partner exclusively for himself/ herself with whom he/she has to spend the life ahead. But for me, these thoughts came as early as when I was a 9 years old. Coming back home from school, I saw my mother browsing through the ostentatious wedding album of the son of our aunt (irritating) neighbour aunty (who just won’t like being called one). As expected, my mom was impressed by the bride’s jewellery and was complementing the lady that how beautiful the bride was. I happened to peek through the album, when my jaw dropped seeing the beautiful bride. Seeing my cheeks turn pink, the aunty jokingly asked my mom to find a bride for me as I too was growing older. I just giggled, to which my mom said, “Abhi waqt h iske liye! Pehle padhai to khatm krle ye na*ay^k!”. 

Well! You may judge me, but hey! -you ought to have some thoughts about your future (life) well in advance. I was too much far-sighted at that very time that I even decided who, where and how will I get married. I wanted a girl like Aishwarya Rai- Miss World, Blue eyed, elegant, beautiful, charming and the adjectives to describe her won’t just end. I first saw her in the movie “Jeans” when I was just blown away. “Wow!”- But then, there is a reality check to everything. I concentrated on my studies, had a few one sided crush on girls but didn’t get committed into a relationship because I saw many relationships around me that didn’t end up to marriage (they didn’t even last for 2 months). These thoughts made me firm on deciding that I will be getting into a relationship only when I am prepared for it and the relationship should have the potential to transform to a life time relationship a.k.a. marriage. So… I do have plans of my wedding as I stated somewhere before. I would not want to go for a traditional wedding setup wherein the families spend their life time earnings lavishly on a mere 4-5 day activity and then they are left to manage with whatever they have.  Marriages are now perceived as a status symbol which I am not in favour of and definitely would not abide by them.

I look forward to a unique way of getting married. I want to marry while I travel, because travelling is my hobby and I would want to take my better half to those places where I have always dreamt of going through my childhood but couldn’t go because of time and money constraints. Obviously, the choice of places would be in agreement with my beloved’s choice. Then I would probably be marrying with my beloved twice- firstly at a place where only both of us along with a random set of well-wishers would witness our marriage. I plan to hire a photographer to capture all the candid moments of ours unlike the crafted poses that one can expect in traditional marriages. This would be a surprising and cherishing moment for both of us. Then, I plan to conduct a simple, non-lavish marriage in presence of our parents and some of our near-dear friends. I plan to send the invitation cards to my friends and others via e-mails and text messages and specially paying visit and inviting those who aren’t in constant touch with the modern communication technology. 

As any wedding is incomplete without food so,I would want to personally ensure that the food that is being served is of the best quality and is delicious in taste. For the friends and others, the menu could be kept the same as that served in traditional marriages with some interesting and newer recipes, but for me and my beloved, I want the menu to be just the food items we like or desire and that too being cooked by our parents. I plan to have a homely dinner with my in -laws and family members together with some good gala chat. As a token of memento, I would ensure each attendee goes with a picture of us (the couple and the guest) clicked together and a personal note that I plan to write all by myself thanking them for their gracious presence.

After the ceremonies get over, I want to visit few old age homes and share my happiness and seek the blessings of elders living there. This would make my marriage complete in all aspects. Then, (with due permission from both my parents on each side) I plan to run away with my wife for a long week trip. Who says fantasies can’t be real? (Alarm rings)

By: Srinath Vasudevan
MICA
 

A SWEET WEDDING STORY

Influenced by my parents I took admission in computer engineering, my creative side got faded by my books and suffocated to death. I survived long enough through the semesters to get a job from the campus itself. The money was surely good. And my girlfriend Bina became the happiest person at that moment. At last after 4years of grinding through eight semester I had life which I liked, “We will marry soon, sharpen your cooking skills” I often pulled her leg with inane questions and discussions about marriage.
“Let the marriage happen first” she would always smirk.

Bina and I were together since school. Though it started as a random friendship none of us realized when did we became the stars of each other’s eyes. And now after 10 years of dating they finally found a reason to talk to their parents. With this job Akash knew, that his life is just about to start.

“You will marry a school teacher” my parents argued “love doesn’t pay bills, nor they make good families.” And that’s how my first meeting with my parents went. This was just one side of the story. One the other side Bina got one Rishta from a well settled US citizen. Obviously her parents got all the reasons to reject me and that’s how our proposal got rejected.

And then started our year long battle with our parents to prove our love. We weren’t naïve (as suggested by our parents) and we surely couldn’t imagine our lives without each other. Of course parents consent was important. So the decision was made, we won’t marry each other, but we won’t ever marry anyone else too. And after two years that’s the only thing that got our parents to say yes for our relationship.

I didn’t see her for two years. They say long distance doesn’t always work, I say you don’t have to make things work, and distance no matter how long it is seems too small when you are in love. I still remember her walking down the aisle, for me she was my sun, my moon, my galaxy for that matter. May be that’s how the earth feels when the rain falls on her after a long waiting. “I will always love you, no matter what” and that’s my little wedding story.

By: Rajal Brahmbhatt

     IIM Amritsar

Meeting you was FATE!

Once upon a while ,in the midst of July,

Two strangers exchanged glances and smiled!

At that time we were just classmates,

But then something happened, commonly known as fate!

Yes it was when two opposites became friends,

After the start ,their friendship never saw an end!

That bunking the class forms and important part,

When i sang to you, you are my shining star!

For even in the class we created memories to share,

We laugh till infinity and we equally do care!

That's how we came and stayed together,

That's how we became best friends forever!

By: Tanya Jain