Summer vacations during my school days always Meant traveling to meet relatives, or having house guests, and invariably attending a Wedding or two. It meant happy times with cousins, aunts and uncles and generally having a good time, then coming back home and talking about it for the next few weeks. I remember how exciting it was to watch the folks at home, discussing ticket bookings, shopping for “grand” clothes for the wedding, and fulfilling wish lists for those we were visiting or receiving. And all the while trying to juggle that budget. In the bride or groom’s family, a different kind of excitement would be in the air. Fantasizing, planning, dreaming, and of course splurging well past the budget. While the parents tried to achieve the Holy Grail of finding the balance between their purses vs. making everyone happy, the bride and groom to be would have taken up residence on their respective Cloud 9s, enveloped by the joy of getting married to their soulmates, or the ideal partner chosen for them by their folks. Oh yes, the more they got to know each other and realized that it was the start of a wonderful relationship, wish lists would […]

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