Marriage Invitation....
I am sure all our us have been experienced in receiving Marriage Invitations in our life. May be many of us would have also designed and made marriage invitation for your loved ones...Many of us would have receieved from such invitations from our office collegues, friends, relatives, neighbours.. why i have even receieved from my doodh walla, lift man & autowalla who I have been interacting with for a reaonable priod of time...
Recently in my own family, we got 2 of our children married,of course daughters...Since we are very close knit family, we discuss out every mega event including the knitty gritties! Of course, the final decision lies with the person who actually leads the evernt; but all the three brothers and our better-halves would all be consulted and involved in all aspects of the event; quite often debated!!!
One such item that got debated recently is..." Marriage Invitation Card". The point of reference is:
## Should we put the Qualifications/work title,Company they work,& location etc., of the Bride,Bride Groom and their parents?
## Should we put the names of all the close blood relatives names in the traditional "Yellow Color" invitations?While many many views, logice & rationale could be debated.... what's the most preferred way.; what's the view? why traditionally these were done those days..(My father & Grandfather times!!) ; just because it was done those times, does it mean it is irrelevant now or it is still valid?I have no answers? What I found is that every person has a strong reason for logic for his / her choice!!!
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first of all i appreciate that you have started your own blog. n this particular topic is of great interest as there is no right or wrong, only room for discussion.
ReplyDelete# i think puttin d qualifications of the bride/groom is no longer relevant as in earlier time only the boys were educated and it was a sense of pride for the girl's family to mention groom's qualification. it was more like a status symbol. plus marriages were the only social networking sites(!) available those days. no online social networkin as in these days. so it made sense to mention it so that people of same field would get to know him if not already acquainted.
## as in india, joint family system was mostly practised, we are still close to our immediate relatives. now probably for work n other reasons it is not very commonly seen but even after migrating to different continents the family practically functions as a joint family. n every member in the family virtually participates in organizing the weddin in one way or the other. so here marriage is not a union of two ppl but that of 2 families. our society being patriarchal we mention only father's relatives. so now we sometimes come to a situation where even people who are not close have to sometimes be mentioned in the card. that is the irony of this tradition
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