Wedding

: A ceremony of marrying;
: A social ceremonies under which a man and woman establish their decision to live as husband and wife by legal commitments, religious ceremonies voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce);

16th May 2010, Sunday one of the hottest day at 45 degree Celsius (113 Fahrenheit) temperature and more than 20,000 weddings alone in Ahmedabad because of Akhatrij special lucky day as per Hindu Panchang to get married. More than two hundred thousand wedding on Sunday in India and Indian family system will encourage all the married couple for the birth of new babies within a year or so. Is it the right family system do we have? where are we headed to?

I had couple of invitation and have to attend wedding on such a hot day. I think no more than 1% of family in India can afford air-conditioned marriage hall & dinning hall. So, rest of all marriages are like close to hot furnace. These are mostly arranged marriage by the parents of marrying couple and all expenses are made as per the capacity of their parents and they have very very big families to invite. Some of the parents are spending up to 10 years of their saving on the marriages. Because they have big families, they have not other choice than to invite them either they can afford it or not. Numbers of reason that's make the wedding uncomfortable :
Large number of Invited people.

• No organised calculation for number invited people.
• Affordability for wedding, weather.
• Uncomfortable transport system to reach marriage destination.
• Heavy - shiny itching clothes / ornaments.
• Mismanagement for food and drinking water facilities for overcrowded people.
• No attractions for kids.

The social responsibility push every one to attend the marriage compulsorily and it is difficult to understand what kind of fun is that to attend wedding. What options we can have for better organisation of such a social celebration? We can have very good organised planning, but the matter comes to large orthodox families and affordability are the most priority for the Wedding Planning Checklist. If someone have big money to spend on their big families, It's easy to manage everything else. But hard worked money, saved for last 5-10 years and spending on a one day must be spend carefully.