Everyone had assembled on the call and Ram even thought that we should postpone it to the next day. He had asked several people but there was no way that he could identify her house. He got to the address but couldn’t find the house. Then I called Alagappan and informed him there are no changes in his part of the plan, and started preparing myself for other challenges.Īlagappan had picked up the cake from the shop and was on the way to Vishnupriya’s house. I didn’t want them to think the plan was off and so I made sure that I responded to the email, excluding the bride-to-be that the plan was still on and other arrangements have been made. I then realized that the bride-to-be had also cc’d her leave request email to most of the team members. I immediately decided to call Umayal and informed her that it was her task to make sure that Vishnupriya made it to the Zoom call where we had planned the virtual bridal shower. All this meticulous planning and time spent was about to go to waste. Turns out the bride-to-be was down with health issues and decided to take the day off and had sent out an email. What he said made me jump out of my bed in complete panic mode. My day began with a call from Alagappan at morning 7:30 AM, just two hours before the big event. On May 10th, I sent out an invitation to the whole team, and the bride-to-be had no clue what we had in store for her. After that discussion, the team got together and we agreed that May 17th was the best date to host the event. We did not know when the bride-to-be was going to take leave and so I had to call her and find out what her plans were. The next challenge was to figure out when it would be best to host the event. We have the bride-to-be, the wedding date, the gift, cake and card, but no date for the bridal shower. Now we have put together the gift packet. The card came out beautifully and once it was done, I couriered it to Alagappan so that he could deliver them to the bride-to-be on the date of the event. Like from the arrival of the groom, to the functions that follow which celebrates the wedding with various ceremonies, the traditional temple visit, the wedding stage set up and everything else. At the bottom of each page, I set up traditional aspects of a wedding event. I wanted this card to tell a story, and so I decided to add some details while designing the card. What more can we do other than a personalized greeting card? So I decided to collect all their wishes and put them all in as a greeting card. But we still wanted to share the wishes and give her our blessings like any family would do. As you all know we all work from different places and we will not be able to convene at one place for the event. Then I thought that something else was missing. I’d say that this was the next obstacle that we crossed. We did have to make some compromises but in the end, it was all worth it. This shop understood my vision and after like an hour’s call of my description, they said they could deliver. So he had to find a different bakery and finally found the one. The first one that he picked did not work as their cake designs or my vision for the bridal shower cake did not match at all. I tasked him to find a bakery that can make cakes. Alagappan, who is in the same city as the bride, helped me out with this. Next, What is a party without a cake? So we also decided that the bridal shower will include a cake as well. Initially we thought we’d give her a gold ring, but then we didn’t know her ring size or taste in design, so we decided to keep it simple and give her some gold coins instead. So we picked to give her Gold which is both traditional and very much useful for occasions like weddings. ![]() We started to throw some ideas across, like whether the gifts should be traditional or useful or modern and we felt, why not do them all. Now that we had the date, we then wanted to decide on what gifts we could give her. ![]() Kumar confirmed the wedding date as May 24th. But the first obstacle that we faced was to find out the wedding date without hinting to the bride-to-be that we are up to something, and our attempt to learn the date was successful. Unlike Prithi, we did not have challenges with her location, because she was in her hometown. ![]() We hosted a baby shower about a year ago, so we decided to do something similar. It all started with a simple discussion about what we could do for Vishnupriya’s wedding. As her work family, we decided to throw her a bridal shower to create some beautiful memories and in this article you will read about how it was planned and executed, with so many twists and turns. ![]() Her wedding is on May 24th which her own family had planned. This is one of the most cherished and important moments in a person’s life and that is happening to one of our own members of the 圜rash family. Weddings bring two people together, not just them, but also two families, several generations, traditions and so on.
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