I am posting this blog for a friend of mine.... I wrote this post recalling how I had felt on the day of my wedding:
I see a new person in front of me. All glossy and smeared in a cake of makeup. Just 5 minutes to the wedding reception and I am unable to tell whether I look fine with the layers cream and powders going on my face. But I could tell that all those endless hours of bridal make up preparation sessions at Lakme seemed to make a difference.
I close my eyes securely in my sister's hands, who is giving me a final touch with the make up and jwellery.What would I do without her? With my grad school engagements,I had so less time and choice with all this! I slowly recall all the events over the past few weeks.
All the pain and efforts of innumerable people gone into prepping me for this day is slowly making sense. I feel blessed and humbled. The wedding has been a series of meaningful events and formalities. Another ocassion for people to meet and socialize to feel one.
Its never real till it happens.I open myself to a host of new relations and responsibilities now. Now my world is bigger and more divided isn't it?
I walk into the reception hall and search for my mom who is busy with the next set of arrangements. I give another look at my father,my sister , my in-laws and the man of my life. I feel reassured. (I have company....giggles!).
In the back of my mind are voices of people who have seen me out of the cradle into this day. Also the very few important people who have made a new connection for a lifetime .....
Its no more me.....its all of us form now on....smirk...smiles
