It was
indeed a happy moment in my life, except for that I never had the opportunity
to meet the bride before I tied the knot, yes it is my marriage day. My parents
did not give me the opportunity to meet the girl considering my history of
messing up with the earlier arrangements, my marriage was arranged in complete
secrecy when I was out of town on an official visit and that came as a rude
shock to me. I started the fire fighting with my parents on asking me to marry
the same morning when I came back home from my visit, I was in total
disagreement with what was happening and of course very angry and disappointed.
A army of relatives marched towards me with an hope of convincing me to proceed
with the marriage and after facing my resistance they did succeed in the end. I
had to give up my fight to avoid embarrassing my parents and
relatives in front of the bride's family(certainly strangers to me) and agreed
to proceed with the marriage My mom insisted me to meet the bride
and have a word before proceeding with the marriage ceremony but I refused
since it was anyways not going to make any difference. There was only one
thought that was running at the back of my mind and it was the question of
"how did the girl accept to marry me without seeing me?", little did
I know that she has seen me in a family function and my family was talking to
their family for more than a month; and her family has already done enough
background check on me.
My
cousins and friends(also the culprits for not keeping me informed) were busy
preparing me for the marriage, everyone except me were super excited and happy
for me. I stepped out of the grooms room and walked towards the stage with lot
of anticipation and excitement and butterflies in the stomach. All my
disappointment and anger started leaving me as I was descending towards the
stage set for the marriage, I reached the stage and was asked to sit in the
place designated for me. The priest started chanting the mantras and I was
asked to do some puja's as a part of the marriage ceremony. While I was
performing my puja, the priest announced to bring the bride to the
stage, I instantly lost focus on the puja and curiosity started building on me
to see who and how is the person who is going to share the rest of my life.
There she
came walking graciously towards the stage, she had the cutest face I have ever
seen and sure anyone would fall in love the instant she smiles. She walked
towards the stage with full of shyness and of course with all bridal makeover.
She had this little smile on her lips and she refused to lift her head, when she looked up; her eyes refused to meet my eyes. I was flying in the
sky and was showering thanks to my parents for finding her as my life partner.
She sat next me with her head down and I was literally starring at her mesmerized
at the innocence her face carried. I tied the knot on the command of the priest
and all the elders and friends standing around us showered their blessings and I
already started feeling very lucky.
The rest
of the ceremony went on as planned(by my parents) with friends and relatives
teasing us and taking turns to pull our legs. Most of the guests started
leaving the marriage hall and it was time for me and my wife to leave the hall,
I just held her hand with love radiating from my eyes to leave the hall and at
that moment there was a huge ring inside my head. It was the alarm I had set in
my phone and I had to wake up, I couldn't believe that my marriage
was in my dream. I refused to believe that it was a dream and was staring at
the wall only to realize “yes it was a dream”, not willing to lose the happiness I
tried slipping back to sleep but that wasn't really helping.
I have
started wondering how brain works in mysterious ways, it has put together a
scene with all my relatives and people whom I have never met including the bride, it was a well executed marriage in my dreams.
- Prasaanth
lol
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