It was a fantastic Christmas, one could ask for. There were neither turkeys nor those dreadful sucklings. Yet, the festive spirit was at a high for everyone. We were celebrating the new life of a freshly married couple.
At Bandra Reclamation Amin and Sabeeha were the cynosures of attention as they greeted guests at the stage.
My first reaction was, “ God, Amin is so lucky.” The bride looked very beautiful and seemed such a pretty young thing. In bridal finery, complete with heavy dupatta and a nathani, she looked the typical Indian bride. The nathani was irritating her, I guess, and her hand inevitably fiddled with that, making her look all the more cute.
Since it was another reunion of sorts of Vani 89-batch, we were looking forward to seeing new members. And we were not disappointed. We met Kiran Nambiar and were almost jealous of Viren Kenia. That boy is well…still a boy. Hasn’t changed a bit.
The decoration was above par. And the food arrangement really needs to be commended. No wonder Amin was nagging us to let him know our culinary preferences.
The non-veg and vegetarian fares were segregated in such a way that the carnivores couldn’t come anywhere close to the poor herbivores. It reflected such respect and sensitivity for all groups. So obviously I had a great time.
Subu mistakenly queued up at the ghas-phoos section and after collecting a plate, realised that the bones-and-flesh section was elsewhere. He abandoned his plate on our table (me and ramani’s wife). I lapped up my plate and promptly dug into the abandoned plate as well. Viren was obviously looking at me with shock. But what to do the food was good. I can go on about it, especially, the ras gulla basundi.
We took pictures, implementing adequate discretion, as instructed by Amin. But I found the crowd quite cool. Amin’s brothers were busy greeting guests and making sure they had their dinner. Met his mom too. All in all, a dream wedding.
Congratulations! Amin and Sabeeha, may you have a blessed life. Ameen.
HV and Indu, when both NRIs were in India.
HV and Ramani, after they both came from Dubai
Viren and I think she is preeta the soft spoken B-class girl.
Nayan in the foreground, gang at the background
Viren with headboy
This boy was surely very popular with girls
Yet again, Mr Casanova
Aatshe girl..err..boy..err..girl
Viren ki ghazal, dimple
Amin, Viren, Sujil and Ramdas
With the boys
The big picture
This time the man himself, all loyal to wife Darshana and 3-year-old Vihaan
