Wedding in a village

We were three on a motorcycle.I,my wife and my youngerson Sewapreet
who sat in the middle.It was a sunny day and we reached Sherpura at
12-45 noon.It took us 10 minutes to reach there.The road is in poor
condition.Baraat had also arrived at the same time. Generally the
marriages are arranged in the Palaces but the one we attended was in
a tent house. Knowing that the baraats are late these days we weren't
in hurry.Unlike a marriage palace there was stink of the drain water
coming out of the houses at the entrance.We were served dry fruit at
the enterance.We reached a huge tent hall.There was a plot that lay
vacant adjecent to the house of the bride.It was used for drying the
dung cakes.A tent was erected there.There was no stink of the drain
water here.First the groom's side had the breakfast of Pakoras,sweets
and a few other things.We pulled the chair from the last lane and sat
in the sun as sunlight came in one corner of the tent.Unlike
the marriage palace smell of the dungcakes was coming as the tent
could only block vision and not the adjoining smell. After that the
men of bride's side had the breakfast.After that the women from the
bride's side had the breakfast.For health concious people there is
hardly any suitable dish.Either the things are fried or extra
sweet.Fruit chat and orange juice were the exceptions.Even the juice
seemed to have some sugar base.After the breakfast the main members
from both sides went to the Gurudwara sahib for the Anand karaj.We sat
and the singers started singing.The singing party consisted of one not
so smart probably a majbhi and a slightly healthy but tall probably
Majbhi female,Half a dozen instrument players and two
announcers.Performence of the party was quite satisfactory.The waiters
kept serving liquor to the guests.They also kept serving vegetarian as
well as non vegeterian food.Some guys started doing Bhangra near the
stage. It was 3-45pm and snacks were being served one after the
other.We gave Rs 200 Shagun to the mother of the bride and left
Sherpura.Actual Shagun ceremony and actual lunch could have taken a
lot of time indeed.Imagine lunch at 4-30pm or 5-pm.