First Mohammadian Wedding...

I have always wished I should have muslim friend or colleague
so that during Ramzan and Bakrith, I can have biriyani. In my
school days, til my 5th standard, I had a friend in my native place.
But at that time, they dont invite and all for this.

But whenever I cross their house during their festivals or on Sundays,
my goodness, their biriyani smell is heavan yaar...
I walk slowly and even stop sometimes.

In my college days, there was no muslim guy in our class, moreover
we all were staying in the hostel, so no chance of going to their festivals.

In my first job also there was none, and in my first team in Oracle also,
there was no muslim colleague. But in the dev team, there is a muslim colleague.

One fine day, his brother was getting married, so he invited everybody.
The marriage was on a Friday. Initially I was not interested in going,
because both of my friends didnt show any interest in going.

Sagar, who sits beside me asked, whether am I joining. I said,' No'.
He is a hyderabadi and knows very well thatI like non-veg food very
much. He was surprised and started brain-washing me.

'Hey Vasanth, the quality of non-veg food u get there in their wedding,
u wont get anywhere in this world. Plan to attend, we all will have fun there man.'

I also thought, 'Okay, so far I have never attended a muslim wedding, let me see how is it'.

I went and told my Dinesh, he as usual started giving his dialogues,

'Yov, naa anga vantha, appuram Bombday padathula vantha mathiri
ponngunga Kannalaney paatu paadittu yennai sight adikkum, appuram
athula oru figure yenakku set agirum, athellam ungalukku vayitherichala
irukkum, Ithellam thevaya?'

('Hey, if I come there, like Bombay movie, girls wud sing songs and
start sighting me, I will pick one among them,then you ppl wud be
frustrated, is that required?'.)

People who have attended a muslim wedding wud have realised by now,
what wud happen there.

I said, 'I wud be more than happy if my frend get a good looking girl.Let us go for the marriage'. The we 6 ppl went for the marriage.

We 3 first went there to the wedding hall and were surprised,
'Are we @ the right place only? Coz only some 2-3 ppl were seen other than we 3'.

Then Sakthi asked, 'Yov, oc-la biriyaani podaraanganna thooki pidichittu vanthara vendiyathu thaana? Innum yarumey varalay?'

('hey, if somebody is providing food for free, we come leaving everything behind, but still no one else have come?')

Thats okay, we will wait outside.

Then Imran joined us, we went inside the marriage halland were
waiting. People started coming, but we could not see a single women.

A was so curious and asked, 'Hey, what man, there is no women around?'.

Till that time Imran, who is a muslim, didnt know that we have never
attended a mohammadian's wedding, then he started explaining
the mohammadian's wedding procedure.

All the women will be in a seperate hall and all the men will be in

a seperate hall. They are not allowed here and we are not allowed there.

After hearning this itself, Dinesh got frustrated and we started teasing him,
'Ponnu unna parthu paatu paduthaa? Poya, neeye bottle-a kaila pidichittu paadittu po'.

('Which girl is going to sing song man? You urself sing songs, probably with liquor!')

According the actual muslim custom, the bride and the groom

are not supposed to meet each other before marriage. The person

who conducts the marriage, will take oath and signature from

the groom first, then he goes to the bride. He also wont be able

to see her, she wud be behind the screen. He wud take oath and

sign from her too.

Thats the marriage, there is no MANGAL SOOTHIR or anything...:(

If this is the case, how an another marriage will be fixed in one marriage?
In hindhu wedding, all are @ one place that you get a chance to see other
females, talk to them, tease them and take it to further heights...;))

After the marriage was over, we went to the groom to wish him
and give him the gift that we had got. But that time we noticed
that everyone who goes there, hugs him thrice. Infact everyone
who is meeting each other, are hugging thrice.

But we 3 tamilians are defenitly not comfortable doing that.
Because we are not used to so. But we were told that that shows
the affection, you have for the other person. So in that place, we wanted
to respect their custom, so we hugged him thrice and wished him.

Then the main part of the marriage, meal...yeaahhh...let us have fun.

First they kept Haleem, I generally dont like it that much, still took a bit.
Then they served mutton, my god...I have never tasted such a tasty
mutton in my lifetime, it was melting in my mouth. The other guy, who
generally dont take mutton also took it heavily after tasting a bit.

Then came the chicken, the taste was good. But I wanted to avoid chicken
at that time, so could not take much. We had enough of mutton, rotis and
mutton biriyani. Poor guy, Sakthi, was asking for Saambar, papad and curd.
We teased him for that and we didnt even have curd that day.

Then came the dessert, I always avoid dessert, coz I am dieting :D

Sakthi tasted and told me that the 'Kheer', which is made of milk, almond
and sweet, is good and taste it. I thought, 'Everything here is good
only, okay let me give a try'.

I tasted a bit, then after sometime, they all saw the bowl was empty...:D
It was too good, that too with badaam and pista, good for health na...;)

That was an unforgettable wedding ceremony that I attended, told
our colleague, 'Biya, thum bi zaldi shaadi karlo, hum aur ek wedding
attend kar naha hai, the food is damn good'.

During all these things, we didnt see a single women.