Sunday, December 20, 2009
Morning wedding games
Today was a bright and early morning as we made our way to the Manadarin Oriental Hotel for prewedding games. The basic format for the games are that the girls make up slightly lousy and embarassing things for the boys to do and the boys have to do them to show that the groom is worthy of having the bride. Admittedly harder on the groom, the games weren't that bad for the rest of us. Still, I had to eat some sour, bitter, spicy, and sweet food, dress up in a bikini and dance to Like A Virgin, and the worst event was waxing a bit of my leg. I might have to post the picture of my missing leg hair patch for your enjoyment at a later time. So, eventually, Laurence earned his bride and we were off to his family's house for some snacks and a lion dance. The lion dancers were very impressive; it was the first time I saw a dance where they were jumping aroundon pegs about 10 feet above the ground.
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Interesting, even such funny and silly games are played in Indian weddings. Many involve post nuptial games between the bride & bridegroom after the wedding, among relatives and the newly weds - just to get informally introduced and break the ice and give a kick start to newer relations on a humorous note.
ReplyDeleteOne of the prenuptial game that involves only the groom is played weeks earlier - quite irritating but fun....more played with the intent to announce the wedding with a big bang....in the evening, when it gets dark, the groom goes hiding somewhere in the neighborhood and all his friends and cousins and same age buddies go all around the neighborhood, banging on the doors of people's houses....sometimes the group politely asks the permission to search the house for the lost would be groom and sometimes they just go barging in....seriously,it could be irritating....but, with previous planning, it's quite a fun and of course, a lot of noise, as some groups are really very big and they carry horns and drums and blow pipes as they go hunting for their lost buddy.
Its a very informal way of inviting and announcing the wedding in the community....