Arranged marriage.. Continued

I finally have the venue booked for my wedding.. YEAY!!! Venues are hard to come by in my place. For those who don't know me, I'm from OOTY in the Blue mountains, Nilgiris, Tamilnadu, India. AKA, Queen of the Hill Stations.

OOTY

February is a popular time to get married. I am not sure when in Feb it is going to be. An "ayyar" or in other words, a priest, is sussing out an auspicious day for me in Feb. The invite list is ready. The guests, not including immediate and extended family, is about 600. We are deciding on the lunch menu and the format and the style of my wedding invitation card. I know it is still a little while away.. but planning is good.. rite?

Apparently in India an NRI (Non Resident of India) wedding is a thing to look forward to. We earn in foreign currency and we spend heaps for the wedding (exchange rate is to die for). Some high flyers spend in the range of hundreds of thousands of US dollars. So you can imagine a wedding card embroided with real gold threads and a feast suitable for the Queen herself and not to mention hiring out half the town for your wedding. Mine is no where close to that... but better than most.

I have organised my leave for two months (Feb and march) booked my flights and am looking forward to it.

I used to be dead against arranged marriage. But I have come to realise that there are only a few instances in life, when the siblings can make their parents happy. One of them is a wedding to their taste (or taking their taste into consideration) and ofcourse a girl to their liking. Most other times, we are just a pain in the rear for our parents. We cost them money, heart ache and what not. Ever since I agreed for an arranged marriage, my relationship with my parents have been the best I can ever remember. I am pretty happy about it, but sad at the same time that it has to come to this to have such a good relationship. Never the less, it is all for a good cause.

I am not sure how to explain the way I am feeling. This feeling of getting married and to a total stranger at that (atleast for now) is like knowing that you are going to win a grand prize soon. But you don't know what the prize is or if you will end up appreciating it and liking it for what it is. Given that the prize does not come with a gift exchange card, I am willing to make compromises and change if need be and hope for the best.  I am very excited and almost impatient.  I am ready to settle down and share my life with a certain someone.

I will keep this blog rolling and updated as things happen, so look forward to interesting updates.  keep comming back for more and I really do appreciate your comments.

One thing I forgot to mention, everything has been organised, excpet, no one knows who the "wife to be" is.  

OH! that' s rite, i'm yet to find that certain some one to marry.  Stop laughing!!!

Interesting how things work, everything is organised except for the main characters... :P