(Good) Luck by chance..

The arranged marriage in India starts in this manner. One family contacts another family after scanning the matrimony sites. After they talk, the prospective candidates may or may not speak to each other.

This post relates to an arranged marriage, it’s not about it, just related to it. And also, I would prefer to call it a semi-arranged marriage.

On a Diwali night, a guy and a girl spoke to each other for the first time. “Women fall in love with what they hear” became evidently true in this case. She liked his smooth & sexy voice. She answered his long list of queries (it seemed that all his life he had prepared for this session) and he even managed to make attempts to be funny. . After nearly half an hour, she asked him his email id and said they could keep in touch. She had no intentions of doing so coz she lost the paper on which she wrote the id (how predictable in her life).

The next day, however, she remembered him asking about her Orkut ID and searched for his name. There were three candidates with a common name, but she was looking for one with the unusual spelling. She slowly checked each one of them and finally thought had found his. She checked out his pic. Not bad she thought. She sent him an Orkut invite (she can’t remember what made her do that).

For men, of course, listening to the voice isn’t as good as seeing the woman. He mailed her the next day and told her that he accepted her invite, He was exploring her Orkut profile (snooping I would say, but that’s what she did too), he sifted through her blog which was linked in the profile and then chanced upon a picture, which took him to her Picasa’s public gallery. She felt kinda vulnerable knowing that she left so much about her on the public domain.

He actually enjoyed the whole exercise of first finding her blog and then the picture gallery. He said, “Did someone say chance discoveries are fun?” He told her that it actually happened outta chance. 'SERENDIPITY' is the word, which means “making fortunate discoveries by accident”. It is one of his favorite movies as well. She was surprised coz that was her favorite word as well, but she didn’t know there was a movie by that name. So the next mail, she asked him if had a copy of that movie, coz she had not watched it. He informed that he didn’t have old copy whose print was no good anymore.

Then they discussed about their other passions and interests. And that was that. Families met. Fast track wedding process was arranged.

The post isn’t about how they fell in love. It isn’t about how they got their respective parents convinced, in spite of certain differences. It isn’t how they got married in a month’s time. No.

This post is about the wedding night gift.

One day he called up and said that he was going around trying to get her a wedding night gift and couldn’t think of anything and asked her for suggestions. She laughed and asked him to get anything he thought she might like. This made her think that she had to get something for him as well. So she pondered and pondered and since she was good at getting gifts, she knew what she should get him.

The deadline was approaching and among other things to do, she was checking for the gift. Unfortunately for her, she wasn’t able to find it. Then she called on a dear friend for help and he through his methods of research found the gift and she felt elated. After ensuring that the gift would reach her on her wedding day, she causally asked he would be, “so did you get my wedding gift?” He replied negative, and said he wasn’t able to get what he had in mind, but will try till the last day. She was gleaming with happiness at the thought of how he would react to her gift.

Fast forward. The wedding over, the wedding night arrives. The bedroom lights switched off. Wait, sorry! Switching them on. In the hotel’s Maharaja Suite, she’s eager to get her gift. But alas, he tells he couldn’t find what he wanted to give her. She is all the more happy, at the thought of getting the better off him. She surprises him by telling she has a gift. She gives it to him gift wrapped. He opens the wrapper and before unraveling it completely, he gives a bewildered smile, doesn’t say a word, and hugs her long and tight. The lights are now switched off (for you folks).

The next morning, a new morning for them together, she wants to know what he thought of the gift. He eating his breakfast, said, nonchalantly, he was glad he didn’t find his gift for her because they wouldn’t want to have two copies of the same….