It's March and Wedding bells are in
the air. Something one of my friends said triggered this week's topic
for Ramblings. She said that she had exhausted all her leave just to
attend all the weddings she was invited to.
It's amazing what some people would do to have an exceptional
wedding. It's not just the exhausting and grueling process that the
young couples are willing to endure, but the staggering amount of money
that they are willing to spend in order to outdo others, is also
amazing.
 One
of my friends recently attended a high profile wedding that had a
staggering seven digit budget! And believe it or not they actually had
dancing rehearsals! And such high profile weddings call for extra effort
in shopping for the right clothes and accessories not for the bride and
groom, but for the ones who attend.
Some even have to take extra time off just to shop for clothes to
attend some distant relative's swanky wedding.
But that's nothing compared to what the couple has to suffer, of
their own device of course, specially the bride. If it's an early
morning wedding God bless the poor bride. Come the moment of truth - if
she hasn't collapsed from an allergic reaction to all the makeup and
hairspray already - she is sure to be suffering from 'jet lag', staying
up all night getting ready for the big day. Not to mention the grueling
process that leads up to the actual day of the wedding. The facials, the
fit-ons, manicures, pedicures, the whole nine yards!
And if it's a night wedding, well the plight of the couple is no less
wretched. By the time the couple reaches their suite - after throwing
the bouquet, getting on the car, driving around the city and returning
to the same hotel where they had the wedding, just because it would be
such a shame to pass over the honeymoon suite in a luxury hotel the
management decided to throw in for free - they are pooped beyond
imagination that brides have been reported to fall asleep in their
wedding sarees - only to wake up to a horrible sight of heavily sprayed
hair with dozens of pins jutting out of the hairdo.
Speaking of hairspray, hairdressers know just how to make it
impossible for a hairdo to fall off even under extreme conditions.
Taking the dozens of hairpins out alone requires an extreme amount of
tact and patience, the poor bride may not be able to muster after a hard
day of 'wedding'. And the 'backcombing' doesn't make it any easier.
Hairdressers have this uncanny knack for making even the bald look
hairy, and their secret - rigorous backcombing.
It's another way of ensuring that the bride will not be able to get
some peace of mind until she has a shower and comb her hair to its
rightful volume.
It seems that labor pains are not the only punishment God gave women
for Eve's original sin.
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