Could not hide my true colors, danced like nobody is watching; off course after couple of Whiskey pegs at Friend's marriage.
Had lot of fun while hiding groom's shoes and making sure that Bride's side will return them after getting wrong ones. My friend's Sali was so pissed of with our tricks that she just gave up.
Being Marwari marriage, Saat Phere (seven Vows) started after mid night around 12.30 am and it went on till 5 am in the morning but we made it sure that this procession becomes entertaining for all of us including Panditji by cracking jokes in between, teasing the groom & the bride.
We got so mean & mischievous but it was hell lot of fun. I am damn sure my friend won't forget his first night of marriage for all the wrong reasons. We demanded few thousand rupees for an entry in his room for all our efforts which went into decoration of his bed room with flowers and all other stuff. (our intention was to delay his entry) it was 10.30 pm and he said he doesn't have that much of money, he emptied his all pockets, borrowed few hundred but he wasn't able to make it. We teased him a lot.
He denied to eat anything and at last the poor chap broke down at 12.30 am. We apologized & made him laugh. After that we made them cut the ribbon of our gifted Godreg fridge and ordered Bhabhiji whenever we will visit them we will drink water from this fridge only...
Then gave him the keys of the room which was waiting for some more surprises.
We have already hidden the dry color on the entire bed, on the flowers which were decorated over the bed in such a way that it was not visible even we replaced lights in the room with night lamp. We had planted six mobile phones in the room with alarm set on at different times (1am, 1.10 am, 2 am n so on) even we replaced sim cards with ours so that we can give miss calls...
We made them seat together on the bed and asked to take name of each other (In Marathi it is called Ukhane (Nav Ghene) & after that his entire family joined, (by now blushing) bride says "East or West Amol is the Best" we couldn't stop laughing.
How did we have such an awesome time and fun? sorry being into management makes me observe and conclude ....
1. You need to be hopeless, shameless, crazy friends & become selfless for a common goal of helping your friend & his family to complete this entire event successfully and at the same time don't forget to enjoy every bit of it. ( And Bonus was due to his marriage our prolonged get together was possible, I met lots of my school friends, we could booze together, drive, stay away from home and few other perks can't recollect now)
2. Making few allies in the respected families (Groom's or Bride's) possibly younger ones so that they will support for extending Barat distance or time, etc. ( Ours were the Groom's two Jijaji's, his two cousins & his younger brother)
3. Arranging an alcohol expert to make it sure one third of Barat is drunk upto the limit. - I had taken the entire responsibility -:)I mean to stop them when they were over drinking.
4. Arrange some change money. We took one bundle of one thousand with Rs.10 notes and some change money (Rs.20, Rs. 100 & Rs. 500) to bribe the Bandwala's so that they will play their instruments with their heart and mind on....believe me it's lot of fun while dancing I had kept 100 buks in my mouth n my both hands were full with Rs.10 notes.
May God bless both of them with happiness, togetherness & love!
- Parik....
