The Bridal Files (SIL) : The Morning Wedding

For those of you who are new to Wed Me Good, the Bridal Files are a series I started on my beauty blog which tracks the wedding preparations of close members in the family.  Owing to the crazy popularity of the series, i shall continue these here. We had previously left off, just after the Mehendi . These events relate to my sister in law Khushboo's wedding in Hyderabad !!!

Those of you who think having two major events in one day (morning and evening) is absolutely insane, you are absolutely right ! It is Insane !!! But our bride to be has  inbuilt doses of redbull and  practicality ingrained in her so she had no problem with having the morning wedding and the evening reception both in the same day. What I had a problem with- how do you get decked up early morning dude? It was so wierd- trying to convince my face that its perfectly normal to apply foundation at 9 am , and get all dressed in a sari! For the record, the bride woke up at an ungodly hour of 7:00 am.

The morning feras were a close knit, family affair of just about a 100 people and I honestly didn't even realize  how it started and ended. One moment I was clicking selfies in the loo, and the next minute i was bidding good bye to my SIL! Somewhere in the middle of all this were the feras which were happening Gujurati style since the boys side was Gujarati. The only thing Im aware of about the feras was that i was called to whisper something into someones ear, throw some rice somewhere and that lots of cute Gujurati ladies in their saris were singing some song which sounded eerily like  the ' Ninja Hathodi' tune my nephew listens to. (Dont ask me why).

The Chamee & Palak Lehenga The SIL wore a coral colored Chamee and Palak lehenga from Mumbai. Those of you who read P&B , know that my SIL wanted something light, non heavy, and simple in pretty colors and Chamee and Palak did just that . While she found most of the lehengas in Delhi too heavy, she found what she was looking for at C&P! The lehenga was a pretty coral with kundan panels and 2 dupattas- one lemon yellow and one coral. Since she was marrying a Gujju boy, a part of the tradition was to have them drape something they call a 'Gharchola' on her. One of the boys aunts was doing this and asked me to remove my SIL's dupatta from her head so she could drape it. I had a mini heart attack- how in the world can I touch the brides dupatta -it takes 4 hours, 400 pins and 30 balls of fake hair to put that thing in place! Thankfully the aunt looked at my horrified expression and sweetly agreed to drape it just around her lehenga. I myself wore a chikan embroidered pale soft net sari from Frontier Raas and i draped it the ulta way in a dupatta style (Hey I was keeping up with the Gujju theme). Overall my memories of the wedding include feeding the bride and groom who were starving, feeding myself,  and fighting for joota chupai money which was quite interesting because it was a match between Sindhis and Gujaratis. Two castes whome a lot has been said about regarding money   ;) That is me on the extreme right   That is us ! Both WMG co founders !