A Beautiful Wedding!

I was looking through the pictures of my friend's wedding recently. It was a very special wedding and one of the more important reasons for it was the way it was organised.

Indian weddings are normally a grand affair and in the name of grandeur it only lends itself to the over dressed bride and extremely awkwardly dressed groom (exceptions please do not twitch!)Alot of money is spent and it is wasteful in my opinion. You meet relatives you have never met in your life and excange plesantries with all and sundry. By the end of the wedding all you want to do it crash on the bed.

This wedding had anything but the grandeur I just mentioned. To me it was solemn. I was playing a photographer for most of the wedding and through the lens I could see the happiness that the couple could just not under play. When one decides to move to a level of commitment it should emnate out of love and not because it is the way it is meant to be. And here I was witnessing a marriage of two people who were truly in love. And that made everything so beautiful.

A few close friends and relatives shared their excitement and there was no one complaining about something that was not done as it was supposed to be done. Would you ever have such happy guests in any other kind of wedding? No! Simply because in this wedding the couple was surrounded by people who were there to celebrate and contribute in whatever way they could and share the joy.

Imagine the lush green of a botanical garden and a lake behind (Swan lake), a solemniser and the wedding vows. It is simple and beautiful. No noise and pure celebration!

It would be a lie if I do not admit that I was envious. I have been through multiple relationships and the closest I came to getting married was ultimately like a job that needed to be done. Relationships that lack understanding are extremely vulnerable and hence the ties just loosened and we set ourselves free of the pressure. I am so glad today that the ties were broken before we took the vows.

I do hope that more relationships lend itself to marriage for the love they have for each each other inspite of who they are. They become companions who do not necessarily look in the same direction but respect each others sense of direction :-)