Ramblings!!!: A Spring Wedding

“A Wedding is for a day but a marriage is for a lifetime.

The Venue

It has been so long since I have been here that I have forgotten my log in details; sigh!!! Thankfully I found a savior in the ‘Forgot my Password’ option.

I always think of coming back to this blog, but don’t find anything interesting to write about.

I finally have something. Let me take you on a short flashback. My husband and I visited his cousin in Boston last December and came to know that he was engaged. The news came as a pleasant surprise and we were super excited for them. Fast -forward a couple of months and there came a ‘Save the Date’ card. A couple of weeks later arrived the invitation.

Then came the fun part…shopping. The wedding was a formal black tie affair and I had nothing in my wardrobe that matched the description. I thought of wearing a sari, but decided against it…how often do you get a chance to attend a formal wedding?

My husband was given the role of the Best Man and he had to wear a Tux…another first time. My friends and I had a royal time making fun of him as he would have to give a toast at the reception, and he is not much of an orator.

After hours and hours of roaming the malls, the shopping got done, the tux was rented, and we finally reached Boston the day before the wedding. The first event we attended there was the rehearsal. It was fun to see the pastor tell the groom, bride and the bridal party to ‘walk this way, stand here, do this, do that.’ The best instruction, in my opinion, was, “Remember to make the kiss short. If you find that hard to remember I’ll say you may now short kiss the bride.”

Once that was done, we went to Golden Temple, an Asian restaurant, for dinner and then returned to our hotel room. The wedding was not until 4.30 PM the next day so we had a lot of free time in the morning.

The groom’s party comprised four people, my husband, Aunt, the groom’s cousin and me. We reached the venue by 3.50, the bride came a little after 4.30 and the ceremony commenced. It was a beautiful ceremony, complete with a pianist and a singer with a melodious voice.

The pastor took about 45 minutes to complete the ceremony, and the groom did remember to keep the kiss short! Once they were pronounced man and wife, we headed out for a photo session. Something I noticed here was that the photographer was not very different from the ones in India, he kept telling everyone how to stand, where to look, etc. The only difference, maybe, was that the conservative Indian wedding photos don’t have pictures of the bride and groom kissing amidst a crowd :-).

While the photo session was on, the four of us sneaked off to a nearby Starbucks where we had some coffee and scones/cookies. We weren’t sure when the food would be served at the reception. From there we were off to the reception and arrived right on time to greet the newlyweds. The reception was fun, with a lot of music, dance and food. We met the bride’s family and friends, danced a bit, sipped on some wine and on the whole had a merry time. Soon it was time for the toasts and I am sure my husband would have given anything to make that moment pass unnoticed. But alas, that wasn’t the case.

The matron of honor (bride’s sister) went first and stood there with a mike in one hand a paper in her hand. She gave quite a touching speech, to my husband’s horror. The came his turn and how big was his speech? A little paper stuck on the back of a business card J. He went up to the front, took the mike and improvised. Taking pointers from his predecessor, he spoke for a little over a minute, and returned, feeling relieved; as though he had just passed an important examination. Here are some pictures from the wedding and reception.