Ahem, Ahem, Amin's Wedding

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