Getting Married

There's something so sweet about weddings. 

Yesterday, I attended a Sangeet ceremony. It wasn't a super elaborate affair, really, but it was definitely most sweet, and the sweetness wasn't in the planned-ness of the programme. Someone forgot his line, and his wife prompted him, trying very hard to be discreet. It's another thing that her mic was on, so everyone could hear it. The kids sung a song for their soon-to-be-bride sister, pretty out of tune, but the most sweet thing ever. Here a really really old Dadaji was poking his walking stick into one of his grand children, and the little girl was laughing at being tickled. The groom was definitely not the best singer I've heard, but he sung 'Chaudhvin ka chand ho' with such honesty for his bride, that it makes you want to melt. And if you didn't melt at that, then the bride's dance... :)

I love brides. I love the way they look, the way the walk, the way they talk, their dance, their song, their dress, their jewellery, and the very look in their eyes. Their aura. Everything. I completely relate to 'Geet', the 'Jab We Met' protagonist. Particularly when she says, "Mujhe bachpan se hi na, shaadi karne ka bahut craze hai, by God!" :)

This should've stayed in my fantasies, but I seem to have lost control over the fingers that are typing this. I really want to get married. Wear this perfect pearly, very subtly silvery ghaghra with dimanond jewellery for the Sangeet, and dance to some soft song, barely looking up, and then I'd like to dance to a really romantic song with the groom. (I was about to say to-be-husband, but that sounds cheesy.) Anyway, he would dance to some comparitively fast song, and perhaps sing a few lines of a really classic kind of a love song (without prior planning and preparation please), and we'd both smile a lot. And for the wedding I'd like a crimson and golden ghaghra, as traditional as it gets. I think I'll look nice. All brides do.

I wonder if wedding-dreams are a common phenomena among girls my age. I hope they are, because if not, there's something seriously wrong with me. I've thought about the dresses and jewellery and sandals for my pre-wedding functions, for the post-wedding functions, about the kind of hair and make-up I want, I've practised the soft gaze - no, this comes naturally - but yes, I have a certain idea of how everything's going to be. Sometimes, I even think, apart from dresses and jewellery, and hair and make-up,  of the kind of groom that'd suit me. 

The furthest I've planned is two nice kids.

(Don't laugh. These are innocent little dreams of an innocent little girl.)