Wedding Day

The newly weds!! I am sure it would have been a great day for him!

The venue was St. Patricks Church, Bangalore followed by a reception at the Woodlands hotel.

The girl you see on the right hand side is Celine, dad's niece. It is interesting to know that in the absence of his parents (as they had passed away by then) he had arranged the marriage almost himself!

A month after marriage he left back to Ferozpur where his regiment was stationed. Thereafter, about 6 months later mom joined him at Ferozpur. I remember dad narrating this interesting anecdote on the arrangements he had made for mom and the extremities he went to about it :

He had organized the entire house and kept it all spic and span while expecting mom's arrival. He furnished the kitchen with every pot and pan that mom may need and had gone to an extent where he even carefully laid out the matchbox with a matchstick pulled out placed on top of it!! Yeah, wow!! That is my dad for you!
Unfortunately his intentions back fired as mom took one look at all the well decked kitchen and the matchbox with the single matchstick on it and thought in her mind, "Man, does this guy need a cook or what!!??" :-)

The grand family snap!!

The little boy in white shirt standing next to my mom is my mama Ravi! Right above him is Vimala auntie holding cousin Pradeep.

The man in suite next to dad is F.X. D'Silva. He is my dad's brother in-law. The bespectacled man next to him is my grand father, George Fernandez. The woman next to him holding the child is my grand mom Sulochana Fernandez.

Perhaps I'll tag the faces in the picture and upload it back again later, cause there are many more familiar people and family!

Tying the thali - after this your done for in life!!

This is the typical final act of the Indian Catholic wedding.

You can view an unusual amount of fauna around the alter, so much so that my grand dad had to hold up the veil from over the chairs :-)! This is typical of my dad's arrangements for dais's, he brings in all the pots and plants and it gives it that green appeal.