It's the third week of December. I have to attend my college only three days this week because I have to go two days earlier to Meera's wedding.
So after attending my college I went home and in the evening I reached a saloon to get my waxing and haircut done.
After returning from the salon, the whole night passed with the excitement of tomorrow.
Today we got up early in the morning. I'm dressed up in a red Kurti and white trousers and I let my hair open and do eyeliner to my eyes and put lip gloss on my lips.
We reached Meera's home around 10:00 Am.
Her home is three hours away from mine. We go there by travelling in our own car. Her home is in the villages and when we reached there I saw the way to her home was decorated with Mandapa and that from the one kilometre away from her home.
Her home has a huge gate in the entrance and its white colour bungalow has a huge garden on one side and on another side a big swimming pool.
House was full of relatives and workers were running from here to there to do their duties. House is beautiful from the inside too. House has huge rooms and furniture was in royal style. In the Hall two long swords were hanging on the wall.
When I entered the room first I met my aunt and uncle. After that, I met Meera. She has worn a pink Kurti which has a Kachhi design and white trousers and she let her hair open. She looks gorgeous in her simple look also.
When I saw her we just hugged for a long time. Sometimes no words are needed, only your actions are enough to show your feelings. After meeting everyone we both found little time to talk and we talked about every happy moment of our childhood and how we used to play together and even shared about every funny talk that no one understood except us.
In my family, she is someone whom I look up to. I share my secrets with her. She is my advisor, secret keeper, fashion guide, and supporter. She is the best combination of friend and sister I could ever get. Many times our likes and dislikes are the same.
She is the first one to get admission in medicine from our family and she helped me during my entrance exam.
On vacation, we did late-night talks and learned to cook together.
From playing games together and watching movies together we grow up discussing our future plans.
Even now we also talk about medicine, movies and music. When we start talking, time passes quickly.
She told me how she has a mix of all kinds of emotion, how much she is excited about her own wedding, and how much she felt sad about leaving her own house and feelings of anxiety for going to a completely different family. She told me that in this situation her Groom is helping her to make her comfortable.
She tells me that this is gonna change her life but still at the same time it makes her excited only because of the love of her groom.
We talk for a while after that, both get busy packing. At night my other cousins came with their families and the whole house became full of people.
The house is big and it's decorated with light which looks beautiful. All Women gather in a group seat in the house and start singing in the group song which is particularly sung in the marriage, in particular, Gujarati weddings of our society. It's called Lagna-geet in the Gujarati language. We can say a Wedding song in English.
After that, we do the Garba ( A Gujarati Folk dance which is a must in all happy moments of Gujarati families).
After Garba, Ghoomar ( Rajasthani folk dance) is also performed by us and then we dance to Bollywood songs. We stopped at twelve in the night not because we got tired, our excitement still wanted us to keep dancing, but when the elderly told us to sleep and save our excitement for the Sangeet ceremony or we can say for the Garba night so we stopped dancing.
After sleeping late at night I wake up late in the morning. And then I got busy with Meera and then the first ceremony starts a 'Mehndi ceremony '
I love the simple but good looking design of mehndi so I instruct the girl who is doing mehndi with my hand to do it the way I want. The house becomes full of women and all are busy with their hands for the mehndi designed by another elder women group and then they get busy in singing particular Gujarati wedding songs which are sung in our society.
Outside the house, all the men including my father, brothers, and uncle were busy talking with each other. Meera is looking happy and beautiful in her green coloured choli. I wear a dark green Kurti and white trousers. Let my hair put in a bun so it does not disturb me while my hands get busy in mehndi. My mother and other aunties also looked beautiful in colourful bandhani saree.
After an hour we all were done with mehndi except Meera because the bride's Mehndi took a longer time than others so I gave her company with my other sisters. When her mehndi got done with mehndi outside the house the beautiful Mandap was decorated and the whole house was decorated with flowers and light and food was ready. We take a seat on the chair. Our hands were designed with mehndi so my father is the one to feed me food in my mouth with love and brother feeds food to my mother. My uncle feeds food to Meera.
At night we again do the Garba on the beat of the music, Ghoomar, and lastly, dance on the Bollywood songs. Again today we also stopped at twelve in the night. We are lucky that the wedding is held in the village so we don't need to bother about noise at night but still we stop at twelve because tomorrow is going to be full of rituals of a wedding.
Today is the day full of rituals at her wedding so we all are getting up early in the morning. Today I wore a dark blue gown with elbow-length sleeves and white colour leggings and I wore a one matching dupatta and did the mascara for my eyes and gave the final touch to my look by putting on a lip gloss. I made a simple hairstyle by putting my hair in a hair clip and I let my other hair open. I don't like lipstick so most of the time I would like to avoid putting lipstick on. After getting ready for the ritual I meet Meera and she has worn a red colour gown with matching leggings and dupatta, in contrast, she has made a simple hairstyle for her hair and done little makeup. We both then go where rituals are performed where we meet other relatives who come today. I'm very bad at remembering the relatives whom I see rarely and Meera knew all the relatives by th
When we were busy gossiping, my mother and aunty told us that another ritual was about to start so we all stopped talking and went to change our dresses for other rituals.I wear a light pink colour bandhani saree with a matching blouse. To wear a saree properly my mother helps me and I wear lightweight earrings in my ears and bangles in one hand and one beautiful bracelet on the other hand. I put my hair open and put it all on one side. I wear sandals which don't have too many heels.After dressing up properly I go to meet Meera and check if she is dressed up or not.When I reach her room she is busy getting ready and one woman from the beauty parlour is doing her makeup and another is doing hairstyle.When she saw me she commented that " You're looking beautiful in saree dear".I told her " Thanks for the compliment".She is in an orange saree very be
I wear a red Rajasthani Rajputana dress and my mother helps me set my dupatta. I wore ornaments suitable for my dress And had a simple hairstyle. I wear Mojadi on both of my legs. I put lipstick on my lips and do a little makeup to complete my look.My mother looks beautiful in a blue Rajasthani Rajputana dress and I compliment her that " you're looking, gorgeous mummy".She gives a smile and tells me that " You're looking beautiful dear. I hope someone's evil eye doesn't affect you "After getting dressed up properly I reached Meera's room and she was wearing her Mojadi. She looks beautiful in Maroon colour lehenga and greyish white colour full sleeve blouse and matching dupatta. Her hairstyle was perfect and her makeup looked great. Two - three girls from the parlour came to prepare her for this function. She looks very beautiful.I told her, " Meera, you're looking gorgeous dear."
That person whom I don't know looks young in age. He is in a pink colour kurta which has an elbow length sleeve and on that, he has a light pink colour coty and white colour pajama. He has a black thread band on his wrist on the right hand and he has a watch on the left hand. He has worn Mojadi on his legs. He is tall, handsome, and has a beard. He takes the mike and starts singing a song on the love of daughter and Father in the Gujarati language. Music is playing in the background on the stage by a music band. He sings beautifully and we all listen to it carefully. The lyrics of the song are amazing and Meera starts crying while listening to this song. I hug her and try to calm her down. I also cried while I was listening to that song and other people in the audience also had tears in their eyes. Me and Meera both cried and people who were trying to calm us also had tears in their eyes. Meera's father and mother are also crying.Lyrics of that song are about w
It's 2:30 a.m at night. My mind is still busy thinking about him. I didn't think about this much in my past for anyone and not for someone whom I don't know.I want to give him a compliment about his singing. I want to tell him that I love his singing and his performance tonight.He looks handsome and I usually like a guy with a beard and he looks more handsome in his beard. I usually don't get attracted by looks. I got attracted by a person's talent, intelligence and character.In this matter I know one thing for sure that I'm attracted by his talent more than his looks. He looks handsome, but His talent is the main factor that made me think about him because I don't know other factors about him. I feel like I'm interested to know more about him.When I overthink, no matter how hard I try to sleep, I can't sleep easily and tonight I am thinking too much about someone who doesn't even know me.&
After seeing Meera I think that she would take my side and get angry at him for shouting at me when we both are responsible for this thing.When she sees me like that she starts laughing and that guy has an expression of surprise on his face and I know why she is laughing but I'm not in the mood to laugh.Meera told him to calm down and meet her later after that he left that place.I then entered Meera's room. I'm frustrated and my morning mood has just gotten spoiled.I asked her to please stop laughing whenever I spill something on me or spoil the work. She first checks that I'm alright or not and then she used to just laugh and her smile makes me forget what I did.But this time my Kurti gets spoiled before the ceremony and someone is shouting at me not for my loss but for the fear that it doesn't affect their clothes.She gave me another dress s
In the kitchen, she drinks the juice and this time my mother give her juice and when she gets to know that what happened before she doesn't have any shocks expression on her face and she told only that "Thanks to God you didn't spoil Aarav's clothes because if you do that what will he wear" I was like what?? My own mother has to worry about his clothes more than mine. So I get irritated and told that " Mummy you're worrying about him instead of me and this time my clothes get spoiled not his and he needs to look around also because if he was careful this won't happen" and mummy told me that " Oh dear it's not new for me that your dress gets spoiled because of many things and you looks beautiful in Meera's clothes now and it's perfect feet on you. "I'm not in the mood to argue with my mother anymore so I completely shut my mouth and my mother exited the kitchen. She told Meera to hurry up because the first ceremony is about to start.
Meera sat on the chair under the Wedding Mandap and I sat beside her to take care of her and her look.All the relatives are seated surrounding the Wedding Mandap. Children are running from here to there, busy in playing and in their own worlds.Females are seated in the groups busy talking with each other.Males are seated in groups and busy talking with each other.My brother and other cousin brothers, uncles and my father are busy with arrangements.I looked around the Wedding Mandap but I couldn't find Aarav. I feel relaxed and relieved that now I don't need to ignore him.I hope I don't see him again today and he also won't find me and talk with me.I have to stay away from him tonight only then Tomorrow I have to go back to my home. I will get busy in my life again.My cousin sist