Diary of a White Indian Housewife
Thoughts and Experiences of an Expat Living in India
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At last, all the legal formalities of our marriage are complete! We solemnized our intention to be married at the Mumbai Registrar of Marriage on a rainy monsoon day in June. Our three witnesses were my husband’s brother, and two of his oldest friends. It was another lengthy process involving more forms, photocopies, and waiting…
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Even though my husband and I have had a religious wedding in India, we still need to complete the legal formalities in order to get a marriage certificate. So it was off to the registry of marriage for us…
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Following on from our Indian wedding ceremony, our wedding reception was held at the same venue. A complete change of clothes is necessary for both the bride and groom, and their close family, after the wedding ceremony. For me, it was a chance to put on the traditional red sari that I was so looking forward to wearing. In India, red is the colour of marriage….
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Our wedding day dawned peacefully. It soon resumed the chaotic pattern of the previous few days though, and remained that way until the end. The wedding ceremony started with my husband being greeted at the venue with a garland and aarti (traditional Hindu ritual with a lamp placed on a platter). My mum performed it to welcome her son-in-law, and put a red tilak on his forehead….
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Once it got underway (the Indians arrived the usual one hour late, and the biryani that we ordered two hours late!), my mehendi party was lots of fun. The mehendi party is where all the women of the family, from both the bride and groom’s side, get together to have henna applied to their hands….
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The ladies (my family and friends from Australia) don’t want to take any chances with their health so they’re only drinking mineral water, as opposed to packaged drinking water. This resulted in an elaborate mission to find and buy as much mineral water as possible. Their initial search lead them to somehow get lost in a slum near Carter Road in Bandra…
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My mum, her cousin, and two family friends landed in Mumbai this morning. They’ve come to attend the wedding. My best friend from secondary school is arriving tonight, and one of my cousins on Friday. I can’t believe how brave and adventurous they are…
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I can’t believe I’m getting married in five days. I feel like I’m going mad with the stress…
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After a four hour ordeal of looking, comparing, and dressing up, at last I have the sari that I’ll be wearing to my wedding reception! At one point, I really didn’t think I’d find anything suitable that I liked…
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I will be getting married in 10 days time. The wedding invitations are still being printed. I don’t have my dress or jewellery. My friends and family are arriving in less than a week. Six of them have never been to India before, and will require quite a bit of looking after. I’ve tried to get as much as possible organised for the wedding, but I’m so helpless. I don’t know where to get things from. I don’t even know what type of sari I should be wearing for the wedding….
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I just wanted to expand on what Sharell’s Celebrity...
