Saturday, June 03, 2006

Wedding Season

Mehndi / Henna Decorated Hands - Pakistan
Mehndi / Henna Decorated Hands - Pakistan,
originally uploaded by PakPositive.

It's that time of the year again, the time for no food, revolving fans keeping the plentiful makeup from running and sweaty people who cant dance enthusiastically dancing. Yes, my friends, it is wedding season again, and speaking as the lone Pakistani female who does not rejoice at the idea of yet another wedding to attend, I want to hibernate till it's all over.

I just never got the point of having these multiple ceremonies for weddings. In my opinion, a wedding should be limited to a) the actual wedding ceremony itself and b) the mehendi where everyone would have the chance to express their joy at the union by dancing like mad. All the dholkis, valimas, nikkahs, mayouns and sundry wear me out. Honestly, for one thing it's exhausting, for another there are just so darn many of them and you must attend each and every one or the hosting family will be supremely pissed. Never mind that if you should actually show up you would relegate yourself to a corner with maybe one other person until it's time to leave and the hosts would not give you a second thought. Despite this, try not showing up and the hosts' (especially the mothers of the bride/grooms) "no-show radars" will start to beep.

So, yes, this post has no point, except to excercise my right to rant about the unfairness of it all... right before I go off to get dressed up for another damn function.

Misha at Saturday, June 03, 2006

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