So after all the discussions and talks, it was finally decided that my mother's wish should be honoured. She wanted both her daughter's to be married in the same pavilion. It was also decided that as this was the first big wedding going to take place in our family, it should be a grand ceremony. My sister got married a day before mine as she was older. All typical rituals were observed and it was a great function going on and on for four days. My husbands family also participated at the same level and enjoyed. My mother being the oldest in her family, all her brothers and sisters were there along with their own families. We were lot of people together and all stayed in a big house we get for a week during the occasion. My mom employed two full time cooks for that whole week and in total it was fun. During those years, there wasn't any system of putting your guests in the hotel or any thing. All guests and family stayed together and enjoyed.
I already had my degree as Masters in Ichthyology as my specialization. I was ready to start a job. My husbands family(his mother and sisters) were not too much in favour of me as a working woman. It was hard on me too as I was teaching in a High School at about 70 miles away from my husbands house. I stayed away in a little town where the school was and came home only on the weekends. My husband(Vijay) also worked as a high school teacher near by the home town. I was not very happy with that bus travel and staying away by myself. At last my mother who had some authority in the department of Education made it possible to transfer both of us to one place in a town away from his home. We both moved to Ujjain(central India province) and worked in two different schools but in the same town. Here we started our own life as husband and wife with all the family fun and the problems which come along with it. A little apartment, the rent, the bills and all. We both were working and had enough for two people to live, but my husband had some debt he had as he paid the expenses for his share during the wedding. All that gold chain and silk and initial things to start the family was not easy. We were paying towards that debt for about a year and half. We could not save a dime even. Money brings the tussle between relations(some times)
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