Thursday, February 19, 2009

Wedding Bells

Oooohhhh I am so glad that Janet let me put some of her pictures on my computer! AND affter 7 attempts to post them, and an hour and a half later...I had to skip it for now.

A couple of weeks ago, Sherifka started talking about how he may have found a match for his daughter, Jafria to marry. All kinds of meetings ensued and finally, we got the word that it was in fact a match and that the wedding would be sometime in July.

As it seems to be with all things Indian, this 1st understanding proved to be incorrect. Because of the astrological charts of the involved parties, the wedding was today. The big party to celebrate the wedding will be in July. The coolest thing was that I got to go! (sort of). The bride doesn't attend the wedding, just the men go to the mosque to do the business of the marriage.

We had a bunch of food, and everyone looked so beautiful- a nice change from oil, dirt and sweat. There was a lot of chatting, and an lot of picture taking. Mostly, I really enjoyed seeing this side of an arranged marriage.

Jafria is incredibly happy and she was thrilled with the match her father made. She was excited to show us pictures of him on her laptop, and was like a schoolgirl over a gift he had given her the day before. She did get to meet him, and if she had not felt it was a good match, the marriage would not have happened. It was sweet and very different from my pre-conceived notions of arranged marriage.

It really is something to experience a new idea every day here, and I am trying to soak as much of it up as possible.

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