Episode - The Wedding
Part II
Hello readers.. I am back with the part II of the wedding of our dear grandparents. For those who missed here is the link to the first part.
https://sri-lovenature.blogspot.in/2017/03/the-memoirs-of-eighty-year-old-episode_27.html
After the marriage ceremony they were taken around the temple in a car will full band baaja baraat. The car was the official vehicle of grandma's father and was rented for this wedding. Cars were rare back then and only the higher officials could use them.
The visit to the temple as a newlywed couple was also uncomplicated. There was hardly any rush. People were not mad about visiting temples though they were definitely more God-fearing, grandma said. I suddenly asked if they spoke to each other and grandpa said laughing, "Yes we spoke." Pat came grandma's reply. "He's joking. We did not speak to each other. We had his and my mother as chaperones through out. Anyway it wouldn't have made a difference as we did not know what to say to each other. You have to understand that our brought up was way different from your generation. Also we were married young and the expectations were different." True that.
"So next did you go back to your own home as grandpa was still studying?" I asked grandma. They traveled first back to grandpa's village and was carried in a 'Pallaki' a king of palanquin in which the person sits in a small house shaped box. "I was stick thin and so was he. It looked like two sticks were married." grandma said laughing, remembering the good old days. Later after a week or so grandpa went back to college and grandma to her maternal home. She would visit his village once a while for festivals and stay a week or so. "So that I could learn their procedures and living habits." grandma explained.
"So when did you both start living together?" I asked. "When I got a good job in Hyderabad." grandpa said. That story is for the next episode. It includes the three or so years after the wedding.
See you soon, readers. Be happy, Be kind..
Part II
Hello readers.. I am back with the part II of the wedding of our dear grandparents. For those who missed here is the link to the first part.
https://sri-lovenature.blogspot.in/2017/03/the-memoirs-of-eighty-year-old-episode_27.html
After the marriage ceremony they were taken around the temple in a car will full band baaja baraat. The car was the official vehicle of grandma's father and was rented for this wedding. Cars were rare back then and only the higher officials could use them.
The visit to the temple as a newlywed couple was also uncomplicated. There was hardly any rush. People were not mad about visiting temples though they were definitely more God-fearing, grandma said. I suddenly asked if they spoke to each other and grandpa said laughing, "Yes we spoke." Pat came grandma's reply. "He's joking. We did not speak to each other. We had his and my mother as chaperones through out. Anyway it wouldn't have made a difference as we did not know what to say to each other. You have to understand that our brought up was way different from your generation. Also we were married young and the expectations were different." True that.
"So next did you go back to your own home as grandpa was still studying?" I asked grandma. They traveled first back to grandpa's village and was carried in a 'Pallaki' a king of palanquin in which the person sits in a small house shaped box. "I was stick thin and so was he. It looked like two sticks were married." grandma said laughing, remembering the good old days. Later after a week or so grandpa went back to college and grandma to her maternal home. She would visit his village once a while for festivals and stay a week or so. "So that I could learn their procedures and living habits." grandma explained.
"So when did you both start living together?" I asked. "When I got a good job in Hyderabad." grandpa said. That story is for the next episode. It includes the three or so years after the wedding.
See you soon, readers. Be happy, Be kind..
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