Home-made Wedding
Thanks to everyone who commented on the previous post and left their good wishes. My sister got married on Saturday, wearing a gold and white sari (I had white and gold for my wedding-we’re both crazy about this combination).
It was a very small and intimate wedding at the registrar’s office with a civil service followed by a garden party. I alternated between grinning widely and shedding a few tears. A and I have been in loco parentis to her for a few years and it really felt like my baby was growing up. A and I exchanged a few smiley/tearful looks, remembering our own wedding. My parents were beside themselves with happiness. My family adores their new son-in-law. His relatives made a few very moving remarks about my sister and the difference she had made to their lives when they were making speeches and that made me tear up again. They are planning to have another, bigger wedding in India next year. This is the second Indian-English marriage amongst our close relatives. My sister’s husband’s aunt is also married to an Indian.
We travelled in an old routemaster from the civil service to the garden party, making a tour of London on the way, drinking,singing and talking and waving at tourists who decided to take photos of the wedding party on the bus. The bus had the bride and groom’s name on the front with the wedding date. It was really nice sitting on the top deck as the weather was fantastic. There had been a hailstorm the night before, so we hadn’t been very optimistic about the weather!
One of the best things about the wedding was that my sister’s friends made almost everything. She wore a sari for the ceremony chosen by a friend who came over from Bombay, and then changed into a dress hand-made by her friend for the garden party. The flowers were done by friends, as was the cake. All were absolutely gorgeous, done with such care and love. Another friend hosted the garden party and put the marquees up. I felt overwhelmed and proud that my sister and her husband have so many friends who love them so dearly, as we do.
What a lovely pic of the two of them! May God bless them with lots of happiness.
And i am guessing it will be very hectic for you during the Indian wedding preparations!
Sounds absolutely lovely. Congratulations to the newlyweds
Such a lovely wedding! I love the thought of their friends doing these wonderful things for them, and the fact that they are both so loved, bless them.
Congrats! Feel so happy for your sister!
Sounds like the perfect wedding with everyone important to them in the picture. Loved the bus ride idea – they actually put up ‘congratulations’ on the board? How absolutely COOL!
Congratulations.
Yes, along with their names and the date!