Dr Kumar Vishwas
Should I spend more on wedding planning or on the wedding rites?
Planning the event, rushing the rite
Families ask who the designer is, who does the mehndi, who the party MC is, which hotel hosts whom, which artists come, who cooks and how the baraat (groom's procession) will arrive. Then the first thing said to the pandit is to hurry. Six of ten marriages end while the diamond remains.
And when the wedding procession arrives, the first thing the boys on the groom's side, dancing, will say to the pandit is: Panditji, quickly, quickly, please.