Marriage in the family!

My precious sister Aditi is getting married and guess where - In Singapore. And in Bangalore. Bless her soul, she has chosen the two places in the world where I would like to be and where I am at the moment.

Of course, since it's at very short notice, the last few weeks have been a whirl of phonecalls across the world, chats on the www, hurriedly exchanged emails and complaints about the dates and the two venues, phonemeeting of the parents, sari shopping, fall, beading, venue fixing, what have you!

In the middle of all this, my grandmom Baby Aji, who is staying with me has been constantly at my side and she is as amused by my excitement as I am with hers.

Arya on the other hand, is in steady state. With some amount of disappointment I realized that marriage will never be for Arya an event as important and fun as it is for us. She hardly gets a chance to attend the great Indian weddings. So she doesn't have a clue what the excitement is all about. She has simply decided that she is going to wear her Mujhse shaadi Karogi dress (the one they got for her Shiamak Dawar concert)

She looked at the sarees I bought with some amount of disdain. Then she finally deigned to tell me which one she liked the best. She asked me what's wrong with me and why would I wear a saree when Baba had bought 3 lovely dresses for me to wear.

I told her the next marriage in our family would be hers and she was not coy or shy as I thought she would be. Instead, she was interested and attentive. She asked me whether she could stay with me even after she got married. I said yes of course!

Now she is asking, why can't Aditimaushi still stay with us after she gets married.