The hilarious wrongs before stumbling upon the Mr./Miss. Right

Wedding season is almost on an end and fresh set of people are preparing themselves for their destiny to shine upon. Step one of arranged marriages is the matching an endless list of criteria set by the parents as well as the potential candidate. Parents usually have the same set of concerns, for example, caste, religion, family background, financial stability and horoscope. However, the potential guy/girl has set some standards in their mind, which they usually look for when they meet their partner. This usually depends on what they expect from life. Those days are long gone, when parents used to decide without giving enough time for the potential bride and the groom to ponder about their compatibility. Nowadays, much space is given by the parents to allow their children to know the person they are going to settle down for lifetime. Some are lucky, that they find their perfect match at once, while some go through the drill of meeting various people, ending up in bewilderment of their already perplexed minds. 

So before meeting Mr./Miss. Right, the candidates go through certain hilarious situation, which makes the journey of finding their partner worthwhile. A few accounts of my friends leaves me in a guffaw, imagining someday even I'll be going through the knife of arranged meetings.

It so happened once, that one friend of mine was requested to meet at railway station along with the family. The groom’s family couldn't come up with better restaurant or park, as some minister was recently arrested and there was much hullabaloo about it. So the family met outside railway station and while the family was seated in waiting room, the boy and the girl were talking outside a bank to understand each other’s' compatibility. Another friend of mine, who aspired to study after marriage, met an NRI. So she casually asked, if she could continue her studies after marriage. A lame reply came from NRI that there were no good colleges in their country, when there were 2 of Ivy League universities in his home country.

A guy was perplexed to choose the girl who drinks and smokes once in a while, when he had never experienced the elixir of life. While in another case, the girl did not want her potential Mr. Right harboring such 'bad' habits. Probably, wrong person at the wrong place! Brought up in an international school, my cousin spoke less of her mother tongue.' So he asked in English, "Do you have any siblings?” to which he replied, "Yeah, I reside with my parents". You can blame this on nervousness though. In one case, the guy was saint-like, while the girl did not believe in idol worship. He expected her to volunteer in such spiritual organizations. But hailing from free-spirited background, she took a turn, never to look back.

 So in a nutshell, there are matches made by the family and then there are matches made by the potential candidates. Usually, the guy or girl willing to settle down for arranged marriage, looks for a match in compatibility of thoughts and their expectations from future. With such incidents, the heart says an instant ‘no’, but expects life will be fair and treat them when the time is right.

P.S: None of the incidents are described to offend anyone. But, then we usually come across such people, as we are little insane ourselves.