I’m not sure about you but shaadi season scares the bejeezus out of me. As soon as those unnecessarily bulky cardboard boxes full of stale chocolates begin to arrive, I find myself suppressing groans, and a whole slew of reasons to stress begin to appear on my list; everything from ‘what on God’s Earth am I going to wear to your seven-day bonanza extravaganza’ to ‘there isn’t an Alka-Seltzer in the world that can beat this’.
But over the last ten years of watching friends be extravagantly engaged, married and even re-married, I’ve put together a list of survival tactics. They aren’t secret—not at all, in fact—and I’m delighted to share them with you, in the hope that you, too, will enjoy the season as much as I now do.