Star Wars, Barbie dolls, and the Wedding cake!

I have to say that when it comes to wedding, the women seem to think that the day is meant only for them. They seem to think that anything and everything should be according to their wishes and god help those who disagree with them. Well, I am a dude who is also a Star Wars fan and recently I married the love of my life, not princess Leia but my real life love.

Anyway, it all started with the wedding cake, my wife wanted a cake with all cupids shooting arrows at a miniature of me and her, all under a canopy of roses. First of all, I really did not see the point of having 33 cupids on a cake shooting arrows at me. It is bad enough to have one arrow sticking out of ‘mini me’ [it was really sticking out of my behind] and now I have to contend with 32 more arrows as well. Anyway my wife liked the design of ‘eternal love’ and wanted me to sign on the dotted line for the cake. To me, it was more like Cupid’s war and I was dead right in the center of it.

The cake itself was a three layered cake and in Vanilla flavor, that part was fine by me. But what I found too much was the roses and the Cupids, to me it seemed like an arrangement of roses and Cupids and with a little bit of cake on them. I am not exaggerating, that is how it seemed to me. So I decided to agree with my wife as far as the design of the cake went but I wanted to have a little bit of myself in the cake as well.

What is so wrong with that? All I wanted was to have the ‘Mini me’ dressed up as Han Solo. You cannot imagine the fit that my wife threw and in the end, I decided to let her get her perfect cake. But on one condition, that princess Leia will make an appearance at our honeymoon. To all those prospective grooms out there, all I can say is that you can catch more flies with honey than you can do with vinegar. If your fiancé wants to have the perfect cake, well, let her have it and in the end, like me, you can have your cake and eat it too!

Dark cakes and a bright wedding!

I have always had a penchant for dark chocolate and that is what I had on my wedding day. True, people often say that white is the way to go, but then again, if everything was white then we all would probably end up suffering from a case of ‘whitewash’.

The wedding was a small affair, held in the neighborhood park. When I say that the whole neighborhood attended the affair that is exactly what happened. Lets just say that the whole neighborhood was at my gala affair and that pleased me more than anything else. They did not just saunter in and eat everything in sight [although my husbands friends did exactly that] but they actually chipped in and helped out, with the furniture and the setting as well.

The whole affair was conducted under one big canopy and it did kind of make me feel like as though I was at a circus. Kind of like the prize lamb being dragged of to ‘you know what’. I guess every bride ends up feeling a bit nervous at the final stage and hey, I was no exception to that. I was at the edge of my seat trying my best not to do a ‘Julia Roberts - Runaway bride’.

The one thing that did get me through that phase was the thought what the others would say when they saw that the cake was not a ceremonial one but a dark, dark one, oozing chocolate from all corners. I am sure that the young ones at my wedding were quite pleasantly surprised but for the rest of my orthodox family..
Well, that cake certainly made waves and I liked every moment of it. All I can say is that when it is your time to be wed, follow your heart and do not let the others do the talking for you. Dark, dark chocolate… one of a kind and my wedding too was one of a kind!

At last, the Truth - Bollywood masala!

Bollywood, a name that is quite apt, now more than ever before. With more and more starlets looking like well-polished Barbie dolls, one can only wonder when on earth do they have the time to act in movies, leave alone, read the scripts. Anyway, the latest soap to envelop Bollywood concerned both Saif ali khan and Kareena kapoor.

It was rumored for quite some time that these two were quite deeply in love and were going to tie the knot really soon. And then, Saif dropped the proverbial bomb by telling one and all that he was just friends with Kareena and that neither he nor his family appreciated the media talking about their 'Friendship' like this. He actually went to the extent to say that the media was 'vulgarizing' their relationship.

Fine, I guess if you are friends with someone and the common misconception is that you are in love with that person, you would probably want to correct that at the earliest opportunity. I will agree so far, but when one of the television news channels kept repeatedly beaming Saif's misgivings with the media and telecasting at the same time images of Kareena kapoor sporting a heavy, really heavy engagement ring and then that taken with images of Saif sporting Kareena's name as a tattoo on his arm....... What the hell???

I started laughing right there and then, okay you are friends with a person so you buy them a 'bling' engagement ring and want to call that friendship or you disfigure your skin permanently with a tattoo of that person's name and you call the whole thing as 'friendship', fine... Hey, you want to be labeled as an ass in national television, fine by me.

Frankly, I think that the whole thing was an act put up by both of them so as to garner more attention to them. In the end, today, Saif came out and told the media that he is in love with Kareena.... yeah, that was a shocker!

In the end, we all ended up wasting all of our precious time wondering what is going on with Saif and Kareena. I think that the whole episode has highlighted the fact that most of Bollywood, women and men together, seem to lack a few bricks in the attic, maybe they even have a huge hole there...