I've never seen you so excited...ever!

how is it that merely planning for and trying to locate hotels for our honeymoon gets you going?

It's really rather sweet.

Sicken, sicken, sicken...and die!

er, no, it isn't as bad as it sounds. honest!

I'm just having a really tough time curbing my sweet tooth (its the grand daddy of all sweet teeth) and my sugar cravings are driving my loopy. plus screwing up my diet. heck yeah.

When I was younger, naive (not!) and smarter, I gave up chocolates for almost 7 months. Sucker, me. But i was necessary to do so in order to stick to my weight loss regime, and boy did it work. And so, I feel compelled to do the same again. Well I don't really crave chocolate. Just confectionary. My bad! Anyway...tonight is the condemned stomach's dying meal.

If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die."

Amen, Shakespeare.

Eat on!

The wedding fair…not quite fair and lovely

Well, it was one of those lazy Fridays…boring. All my days are lazy actually, barring the time I spend cooking, cleaning and acting as general drudge-of-the-household and working out in the air conditioned splendor of the gym. Anyway, it was a lazy Friday, and so when my sister, R, suggested a trip to the wedding fair at a premium location in town, I immediately acquiesced. My parents didn’t really want to go (truth be told mom looked dead beat and with her BP on low, rest really is what she needs), so we couldn’t well, do any shopping, duh, because I’m plumb out of trousseau shopping cash and pin money.

Anyway, the cab ride there cost a hundred bucks. Whew! So there we were overwhelmed by the bling and the incessant flashes of press cameras. Loads of dresses. Some pretty. Mostly not. Lots of jewelry. Nothing affordable. I mean it’s all real stuff. Not costume jewelry. I don’t get why someone would buy that at a stall at an exhibition instead of going to a proper store and taking the time to evaluate the merchandise given the amount of money at stake. Well, we were not brought up to buy jewelry that way. So we collected a few cards, nothing promising, but you never know, and toddled back.

All right, I admit it. I get freaked out at places like these, where one size had better fit all and the rest of the world be damned. I’m an awkward shape, no getting over that, and most things simply don’t flatter me at all. Even if they fit. But I really do think I’d be damned before I spent 55K on an ordinary red salwar suit with a minimum of embroidery on it, even if it fit like a dream!

My sister wanted to spy out the lingerie dept—a damp squib if ever there was one—and even she felt massively let down. Cotton nighties are so passé and ‘aunty wear’. I can’t imagine setting S on fire in granny nighties with cheap cotton lace. Not unless the cotton makes up a baby doll, or something oomphy.

The cab ride back cost 118 bucks. I feel darn cheated.

my wedding to-do list (woefully incomplete!)

so this list is a WIP; this was made in a rush without parental advice and without consulting my fiance. still shows that 6 months are going to fly by. Whoopee.

Things to do
Bride & co
Finalize venue for wedding/reception and other functions
Select menus and decorations: caterers and decorators
Finalize mehendi people, for self and for family
Select bridal lehenga, order it at appropriate time
Select wedding invitation card
Make a guest list. Finalize guest list and send out invites
Select a place for outstation guests to stay
Select a place for groom’s party to stay
Decide on functions & dates
Coordinate wardrobe and jewelry for various functions
Finalize someone for function hair/makeup/sari draping
Finalize someone for wedding day makeup/draping/hair
Buy & decide on wedding favors and presents
Send a ‘save the date’ to important people well in advance
Bride & groom
Finalize honeymoon location
Finalize honeymoon hotel, book hotel and tickets, get visa sorted
Finalize budget for honeymoon

why all this brouhaha? because its my day

and it's coming at last. and its coming fast. sometimes life knocks you for a loop and you're down and out for the count. sometimes, someone up there listens to you and your heart's deepest desire does come true. all this brouhaha is just the beginning of the whirlwind, the madness, the full-on emotional atyachaar (;)) that an Indian wedding is.

Bring it on!