Our Wedding

Without lying let me be out right honest that I always had dreams about My Wedding! Who I need to marry, how I need to marry, how I need to look etc up to the most microscopic details one can ever think of!! :-) And continuing to be honest I do admit that the dreams changed over time from wanting to marry to the ideal HERO we see on the sliver screen to not marrying anyone at all :-P.

With the context been set let me talk about the actual wedding now.

IT WAS AWESOME!!!!  :-)


P.S : I have been trying to blog about the wedding and have tried 3-4 times but each time I start blogging I get lost in my thought process. So I think it is better left "un"blogged. All in all, it was beyond what I had expected and in the process it became "OUR WEDDING" instead of "My Wedding." I am so glad it did! :-)

The wait was finally over...

August 3rd 2010 was the day when I left India to  make MY PLAN work :-)...I am wearing a smile right now when I think of all the things I had in mind, the person I was then and the things I thought I knew then!!! March 17th 2013 was the day I returned back to India, and I am still wearing THE smile on my face as I skim through what has transgressed during this time.

Happy I was then and Happy I am now!! ONLY because of all the people who have loved and cared for me more than than anything else.  This was one realization during my India visit this time!!!

With less than four weeks in hand and a mountain full of things to do, I myself never believed I would be able to complete them :-) . True I made the call to give up my time for meeting friends and doing some IMPORTANT things ( eating road side panipuri ) which I don't regret at all since this visit was meant to be for my family and for my wedding.

A lot has changed both for good and bad from what I recollect. It was hard to adapt to the expensive namma Bengalluru, adjust to the chaotic traffic but before I made the decision I can never fit  in my own home city, I was already one of them!! I would have never ever know how important my wedding was for everyone  than how important it was for me had I not seen it myself. My near and dear ones made my entire trip one heck of a jolly ride though I had a hectic schedule which would never be classified as a Vacation/Holiday or Trip.

March 17th - Landed in Bangalore
March 18th - Shopped for the wedding (Sarees)
March 19th - Shopped for the wedding  ( Gold + Tailor)
March 20th - Chennai/Tirupati (Visa Interview + Temple Visit)
March 21st - Chennai/Tirupati
March 22nd - Chennai/Tirupati
March 23rd - Wedding Preparation ( Hall + Beauty Parlor + Jeweler Hiring)
March 24th - Hassan ( Grans House)
March 25th - Subramanya
March 26th - Dharmastala
March 27th - Dharamastala
March 28th - Bangalore ( Visited Dads Siblings)
March 29th - Bangalore ( VISA documents collection)
March 30th - Bangalore ( Shopping for Engagement ring + collecting gold jewels)
March 31st - Mysore ( Temple + Family Visiting)
April 1st - Beauty Parlor + Collecting clothes from tailor
April 2nd - Mehandi Function
April 3rd - Haldi + Devara Pooje + Chapra Pooje
April 4th - Engagement + Barath + Thali Bandi
April 5th - Wedding + Reception
April 6th - Managlore ( Abhijith's Home)
April 7th - Reception
April 8th - Abhijith's Family Visting
April 9th - Registration of Marriage
April 10th - Abhijith's Family Visting
April 11th - Uagdi + Back to US

I don't feel I am MARRIED :-P

All of you who are married tell me it takes a year to get that feeling ;-)... lets see :-P


Hoping to blog all about THE India Trip, My Wedding,  Our Families and more once I get sometime.



Till then TC,
Mrs. Abhijith

It's my wedding.....

Hello !!!

I am inviting you and your family for the auspicious occasion of my wedding with Abhijith Jain. Please see attached personal invite [ it is made from scratch by us!!! so it is indeed personal ;-)]. We also have a wedding website which has more information about us and the wedding. I would love to see you all during the wedding.

Please share with me your contact details so I can get in touch with you when I am in India.

P.S - I will be in India from March 17th - April 11th 2013. Email me if you need additional information or have any questions.

Address : 81, Karnataka Jain Bhavan, Shankarpuram Road,
Opp. V.V. Puram College, K.R Road , Bangalore – 560004.
Engagement : 4th April 2013 , 2:00 pm onwards
Marriage (muhartham ): 5th April 2013 , 9:50 am to 10:20 am
Reception : 5th April 2013 , 6:00 pm onwards
Website : Wedding.jainabhijith.com

Cheers,
MISS. Arpitha Prakash
Excuse the spamming!

The Drunkard in Me

After X years of my entry into the world, here is one more crazy thing I did last night. I managed to complete ONE full glass of white wine while at a conference. I am not sure if I went HIGH, but I did experience a little bit of dizziness and though I know I was talking real LOUD, I couldn't tone down my voice :-).

I never ever, as in NEVER EVER thought I would come to live a day where I would first of all drink, second of all not think too much about the act and third of all blog about it :-). Just to landmark this event in my life, which is NOT a BIG DEAL for many, I broadcast this news to some of my buddies who are good at Drinking and have always encouraged me to take the first step to join the drinkers club.

To all my well wishers, don't worry I won't go wild and crazy and start drinking, it was just a one time thing, one of the zillion things in my "TO DO LIST" before I get married away.



Cheers ( I mean it for the first time :-D )
Arpitha

ASS

Ah..so Shopping is pretty much what I have been doing all the time. It is a different story that the hours I have indulged in shopping and the dollar amount spent on shopping don't match :-P!

I browse a zillion websites, talk to many people and discuss options on things to buy and yet there is never an end to it !!! As I am blogging I realize most of these  things are what I had once upon a time thought didn't "ADD VALUE" but when the question of Shopping come for Ones Own Wedding and for Ones Own Family for a special reason everything becomes IMPORTANT. Much to my surprise I spent 30 minutes to pick a Nail Polish for my MOM. That been said I have always been complimented for being a good female shopper :-).

Did realize I am not good at shopping when I do it alone - For one, I over spend, buy things way too fast because I get impatient and don't think too much  and two, yes a second opinion definitely makes a difference. Not surprised to know I enjoy shopping with only a few people. A friend might be super close and the best buddy but when it comes to shopping he/she might not be the best one ;-). Well it is different when we do  window(s) shopping :-). As the shopping spree continues I will unravel more secrets about Arpitha Shopping Style (ASS); rules and regulations and do's and do not's.

FYI - Special thanks to Abhijith Jain for been a consistent and a good companion to go out for shopping. I would rather not comment on his shopping techniques and styles because I don't want to get into any trouble and I need him to shop with me for few a few more weeks [FOREVER]! :-)

HOME here I come!!!

With all the wedding talks going on it is never a surprise for someone to get super excited!!! Most of you ask me this question and in all honesty, the fact that I am going back to Home after 3 looooooooooong years supersedes the reason I am going :-).  May be it is  unconventional but I am not longing for THE FOOD nor anything else...I am just longing to go back home. What better occasion to go than Ones Own Wedding. It is a bundle of joy waiting to be opened soon and the excitement is worth a million smiles :-)

Ahhhhhh Can't wait! Damn it!!!!