Please Take Note Wedding or Reception - 84
Attending a Marriage or a Wedding Reception in the pre Covid Pandemic Days does bring in a different sense of connect or disconnect depending upon your Age , Sex or the relationship with the person whose marriage you have so graciously decided to attend .
For a kid this is undoubtedly the best place to be in . Lots of cousins and freinds to play with and a never ending array of snacks , sweetmeats and the added bonus of not having the elders to chaperone upon you as they themselves are busy making it worth their while .
The glitter in the eyes of the college going or the unmarried but eligible ones of both the sexes trying in all their might to impress upon the opposite ones in their bejewelled or fully made up glory does not come very often in the day .
Now comes the important section . This is the important section of the people who have decided to attend the Marriage Recption of a CLOSE FRIEND , FRIENDS SON OR DAUGHTER OR A VERY CLOSE FRIEND OF YOUR SON OR DAUGHTER WHO ARE NOW AWAY IN CANADA , USA OR SOME OTHER FAR OFF PLACE.
After having succeeded in getting permission from your boss , you leave early and are on your way with your better half for the Reception .
Be it Chennai , Bangalore or our own Vickramasingapuram or even Ambasamudram , it would require all the driving skills in your command to maneuver the 2 or 4 wheeler and to maze through the traffic both mechanical and otherwise . The pot holed roads , Dogs , Goat and Cattle foaming freely on what is called as State Highways to reach the marriage hall all in one single piece.
Next job on hand is finding a safe and suitable place to park your vehicle . It should not be close to the main road as you would not want the vehicles plying on the road to add one more dent to your already disfigured vehicle . It should at the same time , not be parked too far inside the parking area as it would be almost impossible to retrieve your vehicle later after attending the function .
The Marriage Halls now are more like the Multiplexes/Cineplexes these days with multiple Marriages/Receptions taking place at the same time and the huge hoardings with the names of the couple emblazoned are of no help and you definitely have a problem on hand if you do not remember the name of the person whose Marriage Reception you have come to attend in the first place . Somehow , our better halves are far better endowed in these matters of memory and are a great help in these embarrassing situations and one should indeed be thankful to them for the same as they easily recollect the names of the couple and their parentage .
The Airconditioned Marriage Halls almost make it mandatory for your footwear to be left outside the main reception hall . The memory of your footwear taking a walk , all by themselves during your last Friday visit to the Ganesha Temple in Agasthiarpatty is still fresh in your mind .
You decide to leave the footwear at the least conspicuous place and hope for the best .
Your time of entry in to the hall is very important as more often than not the WEDDED COUPLE by all accounts would be late by at least an hour if not more after their tryst with their beauticians . Your entry has to perfectly timed and synched with their entry .
After exchanging pleasantries with friends , relatives and acquaintances you have to decide if it would be wise to wish the couple first and proceed for the dinner or have it the other way around .
This again hinges on the following factors .
A ) The time of your entry
B) The presence of the newly wedded couple on the dias
C ) The actual size of the crowd who have come to attend the function
D ) The queue in line waiting to wish the couple and hand over the gifts
E ) The size of the dining hall
F) The distance between the Reception Dias and the Dining Room
This almost looks like finding an answer for a multiple answer question in an UPSC examination or an ISRO Flight Launch .
This surely does give you a sense of having achieved something of note after attending a Wedding Reception .
So friends , attending a marriage reception is not such an easy job as it is perceived to be . Take a note next time around .
For a kid this is undoubtedly the best place to be in . Lots of cousins and freinds to play with and a never ending array of snacks , sweetmeats and the added bonus of not having the elders to chaperone upon you as they themselves are busy making it worth their while .
The glitter in the eyes of the college going or the unmarried but eligible ones of both the sexes trying in all their might to impress upon the opposite ones in their bejewelled or fully made up glory does not come very often in the day .
Now comes the important section . This is the important section of the people who have decided to attend the Marriage Recption of a CLOSE FRIEND , FRIENDS SON OR DAUGHTER OR A VERY CLOSE FRIEND OF YOUR SON OR DAUGHTER WHO ARE NOW AWAY IN CANADA , USA OR SOME OTHER FAR OFF PLACE.
After having succeeded in getting permission from your boss , you leave early and are on your way with your better half for the Reception .
Be it Chennai , Bangalore or our own Vickramasingapuram or even Ambasamudram , it would require all the driving skills in your command to maneuver the 2 or 4 wheeler and to maze through the traffic both mechanical and otherwise . The pot holed roads , Dogs , Goat and Cattle foaming freely on what is called as State Highways to reach the marriage hall all in one single piece.
Next job on hand is finding a safe and suitable place to park your vehicle . It should not be close to the main road as you would not want the vehicles plying on the road to add one more dent to your already disfigured vehicle . It should at the same time , not be parked too far inside the parking area as it would be almost impossible to retrieve your vehicle later after attending the function .
The Marriage Halls now are more like the Multiplexes/Cineplexes these days with multiple Marriages/Receptions taking place at the same time and the huge hoardings with the names of the couple emblazoned are of no help and you definitely have a problem on hand if you do not remember the name of the person whose Marriage Reception you have come to attend in the first place . Somehow , our better halves are far better endowed in these matters of memory and are a great help in these embarrassing situations and one should indeed be thankful to them for the same as they easily recollect the names of the couple and their parentage .
The Airconditioned Marriage Halls almost make it mandatory for your footwear to be left outside the main reception hall . The memory of your footwear taking a walk , all by themselves during your last Friday visit to the Ganesha Temple in Agasthiarpatty is still fresh in your mind .
You decide to leave the footwear at the least conspicuous place and hope for the best .
Your time of entry in to the hall is very important as more often than not the WEDDED COUPLE by all accounts would be late by at least an hour if not more after their tryst with their beauticians . Your entry has to perfectly timed and synched with their entry .
After exchanging pleasantries with friends , relatives and acquaintances you have to decide if it would be wise to wish the couple first and proceed for the dinner or have it the other way around .
This again hinges on the following factors .
A ) The time of your entry
B) The presence of the newly wedded couple on the dias
C ) The actual size of the crowd who have come to attend the function
D ) The queue in line waiting to wish the couple and hand over the gifts
E ) The size of the dining hall
F) The distance between the Reception Dias and the Dining Room
This almost looks like finding an answer for a multiple answer question in an UPSC examination or an ISRO Flight Launch .
This surely does give you a sense of having achieved something of note after attending a Wedding Reception .
So friends , attending a marriage reception is not such an easy job as it is perceived to be . Take a note next time around .
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