Planning season!

So what comes next after the engagement? You’ll say ..."The wedding ofcourse..silly!"..well no no no no no my friends, let me educate you..

What comes after engagement is - wedding preparations ..ta da!!!

There are zillions of things to do when you plan a wedding, but if you are planning a big fat Indian wedding...OMG..they are zillion raised to zillion (don’t do the math. its just an expression).

I thought from the start, that I will give my mom all the rights to choose sarees and jewelry for me (I cant tell you how happy she is to do all this!!), my dear sister Rasika will be my manager..like she approves (and rejects) what mom chooses. And then my dad will handle all the invitations and decorations and rest of the things. So in this plan, all I needed to do was to show up on the big day..wearing most pretty saree and looking at my best of course..

But looks like I was not thinking of the wedding ceremony as big (read humongous) as it actually is. After sneaking out of all the weddingy tasks mentioned above, I was still left with pile of things to do.

1. Help my beloved would-be hubby with his wedding shopping

2. Look for new place for us to live after the wedding

3. Plan our honeymoon.

And let me tell you, that there are tens of sub tasks and again sub-sub tasks to each of these bullets. If I'll start writing about everything in detail...well..lets just say..I won't.

So long story short...Let me just tell you the status of these action items..

On 27th June 2010, We are

1. Done with Vishal's shopping

2. Planned to look for new house when we return from our vacation

3. Finalized yatra.com's Maldives package!

Happy Happy!!

I'm back. Again after really very long time. Days have been busy ..as always.. :) but this time..They were full of exciting things! So major events of past month - 1. I attended Art of living workshop (planning to write a detailed post about this later) and 2. I got engaged!!! :)

This is happening so fast that sometimes I have to make myself realize that this is not a dream. So as you all know that I've known Vishal from past one and a half year and last month we decided to share our feelings with our folks and how everything went well..so now guys, I'm officially engaged to him!

The ceremony was on 6th of June at my hometown - kolhapur. Theres no need of telling that I spend prior two weeks in shopping for the event. The whole ceremony was per maharashrtian tradition. I never knew that I would so enjoy wearing traditional sarees and jewelery! Vishal was looking so cute in the brown kurta that I selected for him. Don't we look nice together?

The ceremony was supposed to start at 4:30 in the eve..but my beautician came late so my darling fiancée had to wait! Finally the event started at 6:00 (yeah I know..she took almost one and half hour to make me this pretty!) with a puja. Vishal's and my parents performed a little puja as we were about to make a new relation between two families.

Then of course there was ring ceremony. Vishal had picked this most beautiful ring for me. Finally the ceremony ended with sharing gifts between families and awesome dinner.

Did I mention that I got all sorts of gifts too?!! Vishal is such a sweetheart..he went to my shopping with his guyz n got me 3 beautiful dresses.. i didn't know he has such a good choice..well..can't say that I didn't know..after all he chose me!! :)

The day ended with smiles on our face and dreams of happily-ever-after in our eyes. Could this have been better? Definitely not!!!

Vishal - Thanks for making my life so wonderful..I love you!