Around this time every single year, in between concerts, fireworks and trips to the beach, there will always be those people who will send you letters of invitation to their weddings. *sigh* Not that marriage isn't a great time for the couples who are announcing and proclaiming their love in such a huge way but that going to weddings brings up a whole different set of problems. Maybe this isn't for all people who get married, considering that I've only been to ONE wedding in my entire life (and it was a few days ago) and the fact that the weddings I know of are very culturally Pakistani, but these are a few things that happen when you go to a wedding.
1. You stress over your outfit. A lot.
You wonder how bad it would look to wear jeans to any of the days. Can't go to a traditional wedding without any traditional clothes. Also you can't re-wear any of the old clothes you have laying around because your uncle's wife's brother's son's cousin has already seen you in them. And God forbid people know that you have a washing machine and dyer or, even worse, that you're an outfit repeater!
2. You realize just how much you don't know how to do things.
From coordinating your clothes to knowing how to engage random 'aunts' in a conversation. You also definitely do not know how to dance. When that Bollywood music blares through the speakers and all your cousins and neighbors rush to the dance floor to be a part of a perfectly choreographed dance, you run to hide so as not to be pulled into the circle of faultless dancers. Life isn't a Bollywood movie where you are pushed into the middle of the dance floor and miraculously you know all the moves. You will also see all these girls with flawless makeup with their perfectly winged eyeliner and fully blended contouring and you will realize that maybe you don't know what you thought you did. But don't let that discourage you! Work on perfecting that eye shadow application and show it off at the next wedding. Which is sure to happen in a few days.
3. Making sure you smile at all times.
Because nobody knows when the videographer is going to turn the camera on you. In my experience it's either when you have an insane amount of food in your mouth or when you're in the middle of a heated debate, furiously explaining to someone why Donald Trump absolutely cannot be president. Not the best of times.
4. "When are you getting married?"
This question will haunt me for the rest of forever. Even when I am married. Always there will be people who come up to you during the wedding, an aunt of a friend's daughter or something like that, burning to know when you'll be tying the knot. Poking you with both their fingers and their words, they will not be left alone until you give them the promise that you are getting married in the next 3 years. You promise. I personally do not understand why this matters because there is no shortage of weddings happening soon! Mine won't make that much of a difference honestly.
