Mehndi Laga ke Rakhna!

So once again, I find myself amidst the summer portion of wedding season. One of my good friends, Hina is getting married this weekend insh'Allah! We've been going thru a crazy amount of Bollywood songs and nasheeds.. trying to narrow down the list to be given to the DJ, songs for entrances, all that fun stuff. And then it's been dholkis and mehndis lately... which are the funner parts to our weddings...full of singing, dancing (sometimes) and feeding the bride or groom-to-be lots and lots of fattening, sugary mithai. Why do we even bother putting out fruit... when the Aunties and Uncles just adore the mithai!

Friday, we went to her fiance's mehndi and then it was hers on Saturday. She was hoping to go for the natural look, but her friends managed to talk her into going for a more dramatic look... which she didn't seem to like.. but she looked gorgeous in the end... as always. Seeing her get her makeup done and all dressed up in her lehenga made me realize that in a few days she'll be getting her WEDDING makeup done! Seems like it was just yesterday we were talking bout finishing school and what we were gonna do afterward... and marriage didn't even cross our minds. SubhanAllah... she's been blessed with an amazing guy and in-laws. The good thing is that she isn't gonna be moving too far away, alhumdalillah.. just to Milton. For some reason she wants me to do a speech at the wedding! I'm not much of speech person... the only wedding where I've done one is my bro's wedding... and that was because i had to. So gotta come up with something good... she's already warned me not to make it too embarassing... but what fun is a speech if it's not embarassing? So too bad Hina :)