The Big Change

Poised for another big change in life, I have all kinds of emotions and situations running a muck in me. My son after years of courtship has finally decided to take the plunge. Well….it’s his life, I know but with no choice, I have got sucked into the eye of the storm.

The very first milestone was our meeting with the bride’s parents. After all the mess the kids had created with all their uncalled for secrecy, the meeting was smooth. Sensible and succinct they came across as bewildered as we are at this big change.

What surprises me the most is the sudden ostentatious streak that my son seems to have acquired. His desire to be different and wacky has really affected some chemical composition in his usually sharp gray cells. To begin with he wanted a card in a bottle: the kind that people toss when they are marooned in some remote corner. After being a really sort after very eligible bachelor, I can understand his sentiment of being lost and at sea with the impending loss of his bachelor status, but wouldn’t a card to that effect be a little too explicit? The next one was a card that was designed like the characters in playing cards, again, I agree that marriage is a gamble but it needn’t be put in red and black that too right at the onset of the marraige! To make matters worse, like a nail in the coffin, he wants to perform at his wedding that too with the infamous DK Bose song!

Like the icing on the cake, is my prospective daughter. A stylish but ill fitted shoe had created enough complications to warrant a minor surgery; yet she continues her shopping sojourns. She is a sight limping around but with a heart full of steely determination to shop till ….there is no end in sight!

As the day draws closer and closer, I dread the creative urges that could be working in the minds of the bride and the groom, I only hope and pray that it does not border on the bizarre!

My husband says, “You two are not the first ones to be married on this earth!” and my younger son in his typical humor asks “you sure… I need to be a part of all this?”