“Jhat mangni- patt vivah”, have heard this enough…I cant really say its true in case of Abhishek and I. But the moment our folks came to know about us, they certainly said “jhat mangni”. We both took some effort to make the “patt vivah” after a break. At least we should have enough time to respect our current de-facto standard- “engaged- fiancé- would be husband etc” :)
Not sure which matrimony ad it is on television- but some ad says that “ab bacche maa-baap ko milate hain”- that’s exactly our case. Parents were quite confident that we would chose the right person for ourselves- keeping our family, status, education, outlook, mentality etc etc etc in mind. Well I do not want to comment much on this. Let this detail be a secret - on what basis we chose each other but 100%- the right choice.
Finally we exchanged rings and we were engaged. It’s an amazing feeling to tell the whole world that hey we’re engaged. Starting from Patna airport to Mumbai people kept staring at the deep maroon mehendi on my hands and legs. More than the color of my mehendi, our gestures were telling the whole world that we were engaged :)
Both of us arranged the engagement albums that mom had given. We checked out all the pics and I kept complaining that I was not looking good because of my nervousness during the ceremony. Abhishek was a sweetheart to make lot of tarif so that I get convinced that I was looking good :)
The next day was fun. We kept getting phone calls from all our friends and relatives across the globe. Either his relatives were eager to talk to me or mine to him. They were not merely interested in congratulating us rather eager to know how we were feeling after getting engaged. The interview sessions went funny. The most interesting session was between my nani and my honey as she doesn’t speak Hindi and he doesn’t speak Oriya. I had to actually translate the whole conversation so that they both could talk.
Dekhte hi dekhte the day passed and it was time for Abhishek to fly back to UK. Well I don’t wanna write more on this senti stuff. These days we are busy shopping for our wedding. In short, enjoying our de-facto engaged status and looking forward to the Most Awaiting Day.
