My Best Friends's wedding!

Saba and Usman got married yesterday MashaAllah.

And Thank God on a Sunday afternoon no less as I had time to get prepared and the whole evening to watch television.

This Sunday I should have slept to my heart’s content, but Abu had to leave for Karachi and trust lil’ ole me to always accompany him to the airport. After I got back, I had to make breakfast as Sundays are my turn to do so. Then I caught some episodes of ‘The Nanny’. Mishi was supposed to pick me up for the wedding and then Ashu called that she was coming over with her daughter. So I got dressed really quickly, (so much for my tiyariyaan). Ashu’s daughter in only six weeks old and so adorable MashaAllah and she has the thickest crop of hair I have ever seen on a baby. Ashu herself has become a typical mother MashaAllah. It’s so heartening to see once studious Ashu fussing over her daughter. Ashu was a straight A’s student and she is one person I have seen who used to solve theorems and numericals on tissue papers sitting by the social huts. All she ever talked about was studies. Now, all she could talk about was her daughter and her husband. And she was always very touchy about her weight and weighed hardly 48k in university. Now she weighs over 70k but still looks gorgeous MashaAllah.

Then Mishi came and she looked like a totally different person herself. I saw her after some 18 months, and she’s the only one amongst us who stayed at home and went on a crash diet cuz her fiancé had instructed her to lose weight. She used to weigh at least 150 lbs and now her wrist is slimmer than mine.

We then drove to Saba’s wedding reception. If I say that Saba looked beautiful, it would be understatement of the century. But she was a nervous wreck. She kept on asking me, ‘mai theek lag rahi ho?’. Lol, that is so typically Saba waisay. Even when we brought her down to sit on the stage, I had to go check on Ashu’s daughter. When I got back, she asked me again, ‘how do I look sitting on the stage?’. Usman looked so cute. Ok I know guys should not be called cute but he is just very cute. And he kept on standing in an ‘attention’ posture. I have never seen him this tense. But I really liked his Sherwani and Khusas.

Anyhoo, after the bride and groom were seated, we all sat down for a comprehensive follow-up on each others lives. Everybody has changed so much in these 18 months after our graduation but the changes are basically in two categories, rocks and pounds. Girls in the Rocks category are those who have gained ‘significant rocks on a significant finger’. Girls in the pounds category are those who have gained or lost pounds, thus transforming the way they look. And well, an auxiliary category is my category. Yes, me in a league entirely by myself, with the addition of only a bank statement to my name.

Then came the time for rukhsati and Saba took it upon herself to drown the hall in her tears. I mean she just wouldn’t stop. I still haven’t been able to come up with a policy statement for this one ritual. What irritates me is the fact that nowadays a bride is told to stop crying cuz it would ruin her makeup. Honestly! Is that any reason?

Anyhoo, Ashu and I got back and we sat and talked some more. Somehow, all of us have ended up on paths entirely different from what we wanted. Ashu, Sidz, Saba, Mishi were all the studious ones and wanted to work and not get married. I never aimed for anything more than just completing my degree. Makes me think whether we really do have control over the outcome of our lives or are we just supposed to make the best of what life throws at us.

I had Spanish olives, Danish cheese & Turkish bread for breakfast today. And now, I am off to lunch.