So I leave for India in a month and a half and I'm getting so excited. It's all so real. My best friend, my mother, my brother, and a dear family friend will be accompanying D and I to India to par take in our cultural union. It's so weird to be simultaneously talking on skype with mother in law about the different trim colors on my wedding Sari and also to answer my phone and have Davids Bridal say my white veil came in.
Everyone who knows me has always said it would take someone VERY unique and different to catch my eye and get married. Well I think a wedding in India, wearing red, and having swirly henna designs up to my elbows is unique and different enough for me =) Is it wrong that I am more excited for the India wedding than the American one? Once you see the wedding preparations for a Hindu wedding you feel kinda Blah about the white 20 minute, "I do" we have here in America. In Hindu wedding's there are flowers of all colors EVERYWHERE, garlands hanging around your neck, and strips of flowers hanging from the walls. The actual vows take HOURS not 20 minutes and it involves fire and red powders and prayers chanted in an ancient language. You eat with your hands from a banana leaf, your feet are bathed in Milk, you wear GOLD! and bangles! Did I mention that our astrological star charts had to be examined by a Priest to find the perfect wedding day? How special, how amazing, all of the thought put into our one day of union. Can it be more movie-like and amazing?
Excited international bride signing off. I have homework to do. Reality sets in. Having two weddings, while getting my Doctorate in Psychology and working part-time is not as easy as you think. But worth every strand of hair loss and stress =)
Namaste!
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