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Pria and Mandip…
Our (or as I keep accidentally calling it My,) wedding would most definitely fit into the category of ‘other’ because we are having an Asian Invasion of a wedding. Being a couple who are British-Asian and both have been brought up in Sikh households, we are having a traditional wedding ceremony in a Gurdwara (temple) and a reception for 600 (yes, 6-0-0!) which is where we are trying to assert our east meets west lifestyle.
I don’t mean to offend anyone but most of the Sikh weddings I attend, (which are a lot – I have been to at least 12 already this year,) seem to be a bit samey. I want ours not to be a complete alternative but have a classic touch. Even things which most people take for granted have been an up hill struggle, with some family members having an aversion to simple things. Such as, we want/are having an evening reception which to some people is an alien concept. My dad thought it was ludicrous as tradition dictates that our ceremony has to take place before midday; being it is a early start he was worried, ‘where would our guests go ?’ My reply? ‘Not my problem!’
You see, our culture is to accommodate, ensure our guests come first, but this is something we really wanted and a few arguments later we have now achieved!!
There are so many more stressful times to be had, such as going to India for 2 weeks at Easter with 8 members of my family to try and find my wedding outfit, engagement ceremony, finding a pre-wedding venue (a traditional requirement, more detail to be given…), trying to manage my sprawling family and ensuring our numbers don’t go over 600! There are also many fun times ahead, Hen weekends, cake tasting, make-up trials, marrying the most wonderful man in the world and then going on a fabulous honeymoon (which is still yet to be decided on!) so hopefully I will get to share all this with you all….
We got engaged Saturday 24th April 2010. Once again culture plays a big part, we have actually been organising our wedding since January 2010 as after 5 yeas of dating our family’s finally met and decided its time for us to get married! It’s not as barbaric as it sounds but in short that was it! Then some arguing ensued and it was agreed Summer 2011.
Our official engagement date was set for 15th August 2011 (another story) which was when I assumed I would get my ring, not quite the fairytale I imagined but I was ok with it.
Mandip had told me to keep a weekend in April free which intrigued me, but when that weekend arrived we went for dinner that was it! Then the following weekend we went to Biscester Village shopping, we had an wonderful day as it was super hot and we just wandered around eating ice creams and admiring foreign people with lots of money. When we were leaving I noticed we were going the wrong way; I kept telling him until he said ‘Baby, we are going the right way because I have booked us into a hotel in Oxford for the night’ at which point I grinned insanely and started incessantly chatting!
We went for an amazing dinner I had 4 too many cocktails and I was drunk talking at the hotel when he grabbed me, spun me round and as I turned to face him he was down on one knee with a beautiful ring in hand!!!!! Then he told me that the weekend before he had booked for us to go to Barcelona (where he took me for my birthday 4 years previous) but due to the volcanic ash everything was cancelled. This way was perfect.
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