Shortest and Sweetest Wedding

 Harini and Jagdish get ready. Harini of course, can't keep quiet even now.

The yogic pose

 The fun parts

satisfied and brilliantly happy

And the Team!!! Who made this happen. Mostly people from the left with some help from people on the right.

Kapu booked the hall and got the photographer from her department. As a result, she figures in half the photographs, closely rivaling the happy pair. And she executed the master stroke that made Haru happy. Finding a tailor who stitched the designer blouses in two days. One of them was copied in Thuppaki.

The person responsible for Haru looking great is Gomathi, (besides genes) who took charge absolutely of her look.
Anandhi was of course in charge of finding the Iyer, monitoring all ceremonies and reducing them to the basics . So we could pay him less than the going rate. And getting the taxis and the maalais.

Sindhu and Rakesh can take credit for  locating a decorator and fixing the stage decor at an unbelievable price, the night before.. Rakesh  turned up early to look after the hall. while Anandhi , slept in the room upstairs.

Sajit chose the menu  and even though he found a great many dishes unpronounceable, helped in eating them all.

Saroj located the hotel rooms for the bridegroom and co, even going to the lengths of arguing madly with the hotel people  when the inevitable hitch in booking occurred and managing to wrangle a discount from them.

Gigi  MC ed the whole ceremony, touching people's hearts with an impromptu speech. Karthik let her have a free hand while Dhruv kept everyone amused with his antics. Sanjay was in charge of Dhruv and all under 5s.

My contribution was to keep the whole together. And of course, Appa , without whose leadership this would never have happened so well.

Lessons learnt
-A wedding can be organised in 4 days flat on a tight budget. You just need this super duper team and a determined bride.
-Couples can no longer have runaway weddings in temples. Anandhi and I went around to 20 temples to fix one. You need to have 15 - 30 days notice and a host of certificates.
-By doing away with invitations and personal inviting , one cuts down half the work of a wedding. Just one meal, no thengai pais, no deafening nadaswaram, no messy rituals.. make it simple and light on the purse.

And this family certainly is trumps. Except for very few, all those invited turned up in spite of short notice  for love of Kalai, haru and Appa .It was  a very intimate, nice family gathering.

Thank you all

For a better look at Harini' s saree.      Haru and friends. These pics were taken by them so the audience is missing in the pics.