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Love Marriages...

On 5th May, We had a great party at home to celebrate my sister's birthday. There were around 30 odd guests, all family members, actually the younger lot of our family. Bhaiya,Bhabhi,di, Jiju and their kids. It was fun, Family affairs are always fun. We chatted about old times - the way we enjoyed when we were kids, not so grown up, innocent. We talked about IPL, Elections and what not. But the real Interesting topic was "LOVE MARRIAGES" that have all happened in our Family. So here is the list of Love Marriages that have happened in our Family. All have been rather dramatic barring one.

1. The 1st Love Marriage to have happened was way back in 1960's. My dad's oldest Brother's (Bade Papa, as we call him) was a Love Marriage or Rather 1 sided Love affair which resulted in Marriage. Lets go back to 1960's. Bade Papa was studying in Kolkata(then Calcutta) and he lived in Ballyguange, the place where My bade mummy used to live. He was from Rajasthan and went there to study. Now He used to eat Paan alot and that too infront my Badi Mummy's home. Badi Mummy took notice of him and had an instant liking for him, and that too to the extent of getting married to him. Can't blame her as He was a handsome Young Man. Her's was a modern Family and She confessed the same to her elder brothers who convinced her parents for the same. They met My Bade Papa's Nanaji-Naniji (Maternal Grand Parents) and talked about the thing without revealing that their daughter was in Love with my Bade Papa. Their's was a reputed family so My dad's Maternal Parents finalised the marriage and then informed my Grand Parents about it. They said "We have finalised Kamal's Marriage, come down to meet your to be Daughter-in-law". Strange but true - Neither did Bade Papa saw Badi Mummy nor did My Grand Parents yet their Marriage was fixed and eventually they got married. So That was the 1st Love Marriage to have happened in our Family. 1 sided but it was Love.

2. Rewind back to the year 2002, the year when the 2nd Love Marriage Happened. Vineet Bhaiya's call it a co-incidence or destiny, he is the son of the same Bade Papa and Badi Mummy. Their's was a sweet simple love story. Bhabhi took liking for Bhaiya and She proposed him and Bhaiya excepted. Both belonged to the same Religion. But, even Bhabhi's paremts did knew that they were in love, not until they got engaged. Rewind back to 2002 - My Granny was travelling in a Train and as Luck might be She was sharing the adjacent Berth's with Bhabhi's parents. They started talking to each other, became familiar with each other's family and Bhabhi'd parents proposed their Daughter's hand for marriage to Vineet(without knowing that they already are in love). Granny reached Jaipur and told Badi Mummy about it, she told Vineet Bhaiya about it, who after hearing it din't wasted a single moment and asked his parents to accept the proposal. Thus They got married and Now they have 2 sweet Childrens.

3. The Year was 2003. S or C Bhaiya as we fondly called him got married to his sweetheart of 9 Years. There were few resistant this time around but surprisingly it was from the Groom's side. Some member of our family were against this marriage but Love Truimps all and so did this time round. S wedded his sweetheart.

4. The Year 2005. My cousin Di(S's Younger sister) disclosed that she was going around with a guy and all hell broke in our Family as the Guy was not from our caste. Granny, Di's Dad were against the marriage. They feared the back-lash of the Jain Society alongwith many other complications. It took more than 3 months to get them ready for this marriage. My Mom, Dad played a big role in her getting married :) [Thank God, I wont have to face this kind of situation, even if I fall in love with a Gal of some other Caste as my Parent are cool about it). After lots of Senti-giving, Discussion, debates and what not they finally gave up. Thus Di married the guy of her dreams.

5. The Year 2011,2012,2013,2014 or 2030 - I dont know when the next LOve Marriage would happen in our Family. Keep Reading My Blog to Know about it.

Tomorrow is a Trade Strike out here, so its gonna be a long weekend for me. Keep visiting this Blog for more such blogs in this 3 days.

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sayrem said…
"Trying to be a Blogger:-)" huh?

u already accomplished :D
May 9, 2009 at 2:53 PM
Mad Blogger said…
Nice family buddy.. I remember the first "love marriage" in our family.. all hell broke loose then.. he he he
May 11, 2009 at 6:25 PM
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