Marriages are arranged in...

Our parents are going to meet on 6th June, 2006 for the 6th time in the last 2-3 months and decide our wedding date. It got postponed from 23rd November to 26th November, 26th November to 5th December and so on and currently they are arguing over 23rd and 24th January. The prospective bride and groom fought like cats and dogs, both the moms accused their children of emotional blackmail and shed tears enough to feed a “champaner” in Rajasthan (unfortunately gauri did not have mother otherwise Lagaan could have been avoided I guess), and our fathers did exactly what any ideal father should do, they maintained a dignified and diplomatic silence. It was first decided to be on 23rd November. Bewildered and overwhelmed with excitement that finally we are going to get married…we threw parties in a lavish manner; people boozed more than we did, then we made ISD and informed our friends about this long awaited grand success only to discover that the wedding cannot take place on that day as the “shaadi ka muharat” was quite an odd time, 5 o clock in the morning. We could actually but the only constraint was that people other than we two were not ready to keep awake till that oddly hour just to witness a marriage. How mean!! . Life moves on and so did our moms. Next probable date turned out to be the same date my fiancé’s sister’s math’s exam was. I never knew I would ever hate this subject “mathematics”. Then it was his birth month followed by mine and eventually they have zeroed down to these two dates, one of them is the day Bengalis celebrate their Saraswati Puja and have complete-veg in their meal. Now please stop giving that shocked expression in all of your faces.. we bongs do have Veg on some days in a year…and 24th is the day when all the married/unmarried mothers are not supposed to have anything (anything means anything under the sun!!). And till they strategically analyze and find out which one is more suitable (or if at all suitable) I would stop here and by that time u guys have to agree that “Marriages are certainly not arranged in heaven!!!!”.