After the invitees started trickling in, it was time for me to take up my Tour Guide duties. One after the other, I took people around the house.
Luckily, except for the first couple of people, the rest arrived in batches and so it made my job easier.
I am not going into the attendance list, but at the end of the day, we found at least 20-25 no-shows! That sure lead to a lot of food going waste, but we packed off most of the left overs to the maids who had come to help us out.
I had my lunch a bit late, but luckily, for the last pandhee, I had enough company. I was too gassed out to enjoy the lunch, but what little I tasted, I liked. Based on the feedback I got from the others, the caterer had done a good job.
Slowly everyone started leaving and finally it was left to my parents, chithappa, chithi, cousin and myself to stay back. My father tried a siesta but failed miserably in the absence of a bed.
After an hour or so of just lazing around and bidding farewell to the helping staff, I started to feel the pain of hard work. The pain from having to go up and down the stairs every 5 minutes or so to check on the guests. I stretched myself out on the plastic chairs we had rented for the day.
Around 3 'o clock, my mother asked me to prepare coffee. Of course, she wanted me to prepare the decoction using the new coffee maker. In my eagerness to make a strong decoction, I used a lot of powder and got the machine going. In a minute or so, I saw decoction coming out of all places in the machine. It was not supposed to happen that way. So I stopped the machine and took out some of the powder and had the machine resume its duties.
When my father started preparing the coffee, he realised how bad the posish was. While I did use a lot of powder, I'd also used a lot of water. So ultimately, we got quite a watery decoction. Needless to add, the coffee we all had to drink was quite BAD.
Anyways, we all continued our chit-chat and around 5.30, we realised that it was time for my chithi, chithappa and cousin to go home. So they packed their bags, took some more of the food from the afternoon and by 6.15 or so, they were off. We also gave instructions to our driver to drop them and then leave the car at our B'Nagar house.
By 7.30 my parents and I got into our dinner and then cleaned out the surplus food. After that was done, we started assembling all the items we brought in for the function, so that we could move them all into the car the next morning.
There were quite a lot of gifts given by my friends. And that alone took up most space in the car.
Like I mentioned in an earlier post, I didn't sleep that well. But the next morning, we started loading the goods into the car and we were out the door by 6.45 or so. We reached home by 7.20.
Without much further ado, I will conclude this narration of my grihapravesham. It was definitely a success and all credit goes to my folks for arranging 95% of the show. My contribution was certainly limited to transportation, handling of accounts on the D-day and of course looking after my friends who had come over.
Before I close out, a quick note on the gifts. Each and every item was fantastic. We opened up the gifts only on the 30th (night) but it was worth the wait. I have already placed some of them in the display shelf at B'Nagar. The rest will have to wait for my relocation to Shollinganallur.
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