Sama’s (Grand) Wedding

:) :) :)

:P :P :P

:D :D :D

Lol lol lol

Rolf rolf rolf

He he he

Ha ha ha

Ho ho ho

Well, these are the only signs, words, terms which I know in English to describe the laughs, the smiles, the fun, the masti we all had.

Before I start lemme show some gratitude and pass a Thanks to Chaitanya for getting married and calling us, opps just not calling but forcing us to attend his marriage 900 kilometers away.

It was an awesome journey, picnic, trip, wedding ceremony, reunion of roomies, friends. That was the first time that I witnessed a South Indian wedding (Telagu) and truly speaking, it was worth travelling so far.

Our Journey was –

Pune – Ahmednagar – Aurangabad – Hyderabad – Vijaywada – Ongole – Vijaywada – Hyderabad – Pune.

So who all were a part of this enjoyment of 5 days –

Appu the gorgeous, Bha Little Miss Perfect, Ankita Miss Naughty, Surashree the sweetest, Nikhil Caring Helping, Abhinandan Ankita’s Fiance cool and sensible, Ritesh Mr. Sense of Humour, Abhijeet Slow Smart Sugary, Rohan the handsome hunk  and ofcourse Chaitanya the groom.

Almost 24 hours we travelled to reach the destination and almost same hours to reach back. However those hours were just not a tiresome train travel; it was a lot more. A mix of gossips, jokes, lame pj’s, pathetic one liner’s, nonstop Dumb Shiraz, playing cards, uno and many many many games. Games like Chip-chilli chip-chilli chip chip chip, Hawahawai, Donkey-Monkey, Purple Pulsar, Kaangoshti (Chinese talk), Nonsence, One Two Ehhhh…

Lemme explain you the Ehhh in the last game - This Ehhh Sound should come from your neck, you’re your tongue on your lips while making the sound same as Akshay Kumar does in HoseFull2. I was an expert in making that Ehh sound as per Nikhil. You know what that means, as per Akki in the movie both the K’s in me have come out :) ;)

Note – If you want to learn these games, you can call me and I will teach you however be ready with Guru Dakshina, some bournville’s, lindt’s would help depends on the course of game that you are learning :D :) And then when you teach others, you will have to give me Royalty… :) “”chalo zindagi bharke chocolates ka kaam ho gaya..”” ;) ;)

What all we did at the wedding –

Enjoyed the yummy south Indian food, with so many different types of rice having different flavors.

See here are the Bhukkad’s of our group.

Left Pic is where they started with such a full plate and Pic to the right is their empty plate after the dinner. Seems like “”Do bhuke chor kisi anjani shadi me ghuske begano ki tarah khana kha rahe hai””. And when they would read this line, these 2 hopeless creatures would take it as a compliment and say wow, the food was so yummy… :( :D

Danced like hell on the beats of Telagu songs, and the orchestra guys showed some courtesy by playing Punjabi songs which helped us grab the floor with more enthu. That was the first time I recognized that I can sport a sari with utmost confidence even while posing heavy Punjabi steps. Enjoyed the dance and the shoot while dancing a lot.

We joined the Didi’s and the mom’s in the rituals. There were two amazing, attention seeking rituals which we enjoyed the most. I would appreciate if all the priests in India add these customs in their books of chants. :)

The first one where the bride and groom would sit facing each other to shower the partner with rice mixed in turmeric, flower petals, colorful pearls, colorful sequence, thermocal  balls, etc. The showers seemed to be so pretty, so heavenly, so different. The religious meaning of showering all these on each other as per Sama’s dad is – 1st shower – for good virtuous life, 2^nd – for good healthy children, 3^rd – for respect and all luxuries, 4^th – to have religious touch in life. Rest all showers are just for fun sake.

The below pics would explain more –

The best ritual was something like bride and groom sharing food without using hands. Lemme explain. One partner would hold one side of the food item in his mouth with some part of it outside the mouth and the other partner needs to eat the part of the item which is outside the mouth. And the food items were from a big puri till the little Raisin. Imagine Raisin :D :D God, that’s difficult to explain but the photos below will explain it all.

Such a bold game, isn’t it??? I wish even we had such awesome rituals. :):) :) Else when are we gonna get such changes in India to give such bold poses in public…

Next, we daily slept late, but why?? Read further, before using your thinking caps. :) We slept late just to have a long chitchat, open a gossip center, play games and do everything that we did in train as I told you in the beginning of the post. The only difference was in train at times people got annoyed and shouted on us, however our stay was in a 4star Hotel Minerva Grand where no one would dare to shout on us though we were shouting laughing the loudest we can till half of the night; hospitality right :D

And finally placed Loads of makeup, wore different traditional dresses and did photo sessions all the time… Thanks to Nikhil and Abhinandan for being so patient and clicking our pics. But don’t you think photographs are important… “”vo kehte hai na – Baaten bhul jati par yaaden yaad rehti hai aur ye yaaden aur bhi acche se yaad rahegi jab humare pass dher sare photos honge hamari yaadon ko baton mai badalne ke liye….”” :)

Sorry to use such a big Hindi line, but it was difficult to convey so much essence of the above lines in English… :)

Above pic is one of the last clicks on the platform waiting for our train to depart us... ohh, that luggage, it's is just half ... :) Our return journey was a mix of emotions in the eyes. No one poured the tears, but the moist eyes said it all.

Thanks to Surashree’s Aunt for such a yummy dinner which she packed for 2 of our groups, since for the half distance back to our home we were gonna separate and travel in 2 different trains, 4 in each train… Though Surashree was in another train, her aunt packed the dinner for us too. Marwadi’s, they always want to feed the world… :) Not biased, but that’s true… :)

And before I end up…. Thank you guys to be a part of my life. It’s correctly said life is heaven when your friends become your family and that’s what you all are for me. Touch Wood, but God has bestowed me with such awesome friends, family, cousins, who all make my life more worth living. Time spend with you all is so memorable that it would keep a smile on my face for days to go and would make me feel bad with the thought of those days to come back. Greedy mind, you know. I wish to see such gr8 days with you all gr8 people always in life.

There’s a lot more that I can add to this, a lot more that I wanna speak, however people always compliant why I write such big big posts, so tried to cut-short the topics :):) The photos in the post are making it look more big... Still I guess it’s another big post however if I write once in a month or two, the post has to be biggggg, right ?????

PS.

First time witnessed a cricket match live on Stadium with all baccha party. Kids from UKG till Std 12^th, and that was fun. Though the match was boring and Pune lost badly, but we enjoyed the fights, the fun, the complaints and a lot more with kids…

PSS.

Another Stunning pic, isn't it???… Photo Courtesy Nikhil :)

Love you all… Njoy... Have loads n loads of outings and parties all through the year… Muaaaahhhhh….