Shaadi season is usually a lot of fun, wearing your finest traditionals with perfect hair and make up, plus so many good looking men. However, often there are a few ‘uncomfortable’ situations we all find our selves in. Here is how to avoid those small errors as a wedding guest:
Wrong clothes: Okay, getting dressed up for a wedding is never easy, there is a fine line between too heavy and too casual. Always dress your best and finest but understand your relation with the wedding and groom before deciding to wear your heavy lengha. While it is Ok to wear a very heavy saree, suits or lengha’s to a family wedding, wearing them to a colleagues function won’t make sense. Also never pick anything ill-fitting, shabby or unpressed.
Gift right: Wedding gifts are usually difficult to decide. While many people prefer giving cash as it’s easy. Always pick something of antique value like a silver idol. But stick to cash if the wedding is out of town. Also, flowers are not a good idea, though they look good but no one remembers them.
Drunken dancing: While in Indian weddings liquor is not available at the wedding venue (for religious reasons) it is abundantly available in cars (converted to bars!). But a wedding should never mean guzzling free liquor and behaving stupidly later. Remember it is all on camera and you may regret that weird dance step you thought as awesome.
Eating near the newly weds: Keep food away from when you congratulate the newly weds. Chances of spilling that drink on the bride might sound scary but it can happen as the stage usually has a tangle of camera equipment and wires.
With family: While most wedding invitations always write your name with family but in reality everyone thinks two people would come (if you do not know the family so well). Try not to press your luck and take extra people with you to the wedding, you can also ask beforehand if you plan to take some visiting relatives with you.
