*Some things to know at South Indian weddings: *- You get to eat on banana leaves (well, it also happens at Maharastrian weddings), but the south side is a different experience.
- There are no forks, knives or spoons. Use your hands, which is fine if you have been born and bought up in India. - Never miss out on the Paayasam. Its the most awesome thing which could happen to mankind. Iyers wedding had two types, what we called the white paayasam and dark paayasam (due to its color - and more so to draw comparison with white rum and dark rum). As a matter of fact we also did 30 ml payasam shots - Never mention any non-vegetarian food. I figured this out the wrong way. As we entered the hall, I asked aloud - "Do they have chicken for lunch?" - Call people by their first name. Since we always call Iyer as Iyer and not by his first name, entering the hall and shouting "Iyer" resulted in 100 people staring at us. All Iyer's. - When rice is served, let the person know when to stop. Else your banana leaf is all covered with rice. - Also, make a hole in the middle of the mound of rice. Thats where the sambhar (gravy) to have the rice with goes. If you dont do that, the gravy flows all over your banana leaf. - Once the gravy and rice is mixed, you make rice balls out of small portions and toss 'em in your mouth. This requires a high level of practice and as I found out, you usually miss your mouth and hit every other part of your face. - Its difficult getting to the bride and bridegroom. They are swamped by relatives 24X7 KALAYANA SAPADU Next comes the 2nd best thing in marriages- Food! The menu contains at least 15 items – minimum! Two curries Three different rice varities (No make that four to five; including fried rice and kalantha saatham viz. a viz. Lemon rice or thengaai saatham) Chips Appalam Jangri/milk sweet Payasam/Seeroti/Kheer Cutlet/Vadas Avial Kootu Fruit salad Ice Cream And finally Beeda… In a north Indian wedding reception they even kept snacks (Check out Chottu’s)! It has become a fashion to organize buffet and bring in a beeda wala. So people can ask for their choices. And finally bird watching. Nice looking girl all around the place. Iyer or Iyengar aathu kalyanam always rules! -- I like you because of who you are to me.... A true friend. And if I don't get this back I'll take the hint. janu
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