The big flop Chelsea wedding!

06 August,2010 09:15 AM IST |   |  Prahlad Nanjappa

Hello frands! I was one of the few invited to the close circle of the Clinton-Machovsky.. uh ufffd..Markovsky ufffduh, Mooklinksky... oh! whatever... shaadi.


Hello frands! I was one of the few invited to the close circle of the Clinton-Machovsky.. uh ufffd..Markovsky ufffduh, Mooklinksky... oh! whatever... shaadi. Very disappointing, I tell you. So much hype and hoopla they built before the wedding, but nothing like our Indian weddings, I am telling you.


The kudis were dressed so plainly. No diamonds, no dhinchak ghagras, no shiny zari saris. All boring dresses and the men in the same black suits all over.

The boy did not come with a wedding band or a white horse. He just walked in by himself. And the girl's side was not even there to welcome him in. And he also dressed in same black suit ufffd no Abu Jani sherwani. Chee Chee! That is why these Americans do not have respect for the boy's side!

They are saying they spent 5 million dollars on the wedding. You would think they would at least have a nice pandal with orchids flown in from Bali! But no! The couple just did pheras or whatever they call it there, under the sun!

Forget pandal. They didn't even have a theme to the d ufffdcor. My neighbour's third son in Patiala got married to a girl from Karol Bagh last month. And you should have seen the beautiful Arabian Nights theme they had with gold-coloured palaces and gold coloured outfits and gold-coloured monkeys doing tricks. Why! They had even brought down tigers and dolphins from Thailand for the sangeet. Now, that is stylish wedding, I am telling you.

Not like these Clintons. They invited only 400 people. You would think, when even the smallest wedding in India has a thousand guests, these rich and powerful White House people would invite more. How their neighbours and close relatives, like their second cousin's daughter's husband, must be feeling bad for not being invited!
For lunch, they made everybody sit down and eat whatever was given. Some small piece of fish in a big white plate came. Starters they were calling it. No chaat. No Italian counter. No Chinese counter. And not even butter chicken. I think these Clintons were lying about how much they spent.u00a0u00a0

I was speaking to Sant Chatwal, who was only other Indian invited. He knows how to hold a wedding. His son's wedding was so beautiful, and it even comes on TV for some show. Even he was saying "Arre! Not even a taangdi kebab!"

Some horrible yellow wine with bubbles was being served with lunch. No Johnny Walker Black Label was being served. Cheap people, I am telling you! And that was it. Just one half-lunch. They asked us all to go home after that. No naach-gaana. No Shah Rukh performance. No Bipasha Basu flown in. Nothing. How they are going to show face to all their friends and have izzat after such a measly wedding, I don't know.
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