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I’m sort of sad today because I’m missing my friends’ wedding. I’ve been looking forward to it for about three years. Initially it was scheduled for this summer (except we don’t have summer back home in Trinidad & Tobago) but it kept getting moved up earlier and earlier for various reasons, some of which I know or can guess.

So I intend to graduate in May and the last I’d heard was that it was in June so that I’d make it back just in time to get clothes made and go. But last week the groom emailed me to say it got moved to April 4th, this Sunday.

And this was the first wedding of my very own that I got invited to and I was so looking forward to it because I would probably see some friends (or at least the bride’s friends) from undergrad and at least start to feel my way back home and see how out of it I felt. This is of course minor to the me not getting to go to my very good friend’s wedding from undergrad…so I’m depressed. I haven’t even figured out what to get them yet. I could just get them a check :-) but I like gifts except I’ve never gotten anybody a wedding gift before so I don’t know how or what to get.

So the wedding is Sunday but the last I heard was that it was a full works Hindu wedding and I was invited to all days which means there would be something called Matikoor (really don’t know how to spell it) tonight when they do some special ceremony/ritual and I wouldn’t've had to get all dressed up, but I would probably have been wearing a skirt anyway but basically casual I think.

Saturday is usually less formal, when people just drop by and maybe they do stuff but I could’ve been in jeans I’m told. And it’s also usually when alot of the cooking takes place.

Sunday would have been the actual wedding ceremony (you know, sort of like I do‘s except that’s not for a Hindu wedding and I would’ve had to be well, dressed up.

And the next Sunday, second Sunday would be the reception. Sometime in the intervening week the bride would return home and the groom would fetch her on Second Sunday. And I guess casual would work for this too.

Now don’t think I’m clothes obsessed. In fact this is probably the only reason I’m slightly relieved, not having to figure out what to wear and get it made and dressing up and *argh*. As I’ve said before, I’m a jeans kinda girl.

Oh, another thing that had me worried was that I don’t drink and am not very comfortable around people who are drinking, especially in excess (which is what happens at these weddings). Casually and not much I can survive but out of control or something, I’m just totally out of my element, which the bride knows and invited me for all days but warned me. But I was going anyway you know.

And now I’m missing it.
I really wanted to go.

:-(