Have you gate crashed into a wedding?

Covid times have taught many things to many people. And if you are smart enough you can easily get things done and get away with them. Like last night I went to a wedding without an invitation. At the gate someone from the bride side asked me : "From whose side you are from?" Almost simultaneously the Groom's side receiver at the gate also asked : "From whose side you are ?? Gathering my wits about me, I simply started counting the persons around me & said calmly, "I have been sent by the police station to count the number of people who are in attendance here for the wedding." Soon thereafter....can you believe what happened? I got a special chair and treatment. At the end of the day, with full tummy and while leaving I also got richer by ₹ 11,000 /-. I'm going to be attending a lot of such functions hereon.

Like the movie 3 Idiots, once we were caught because we were wearing slippers to the wedding! So this is back when I was studying in Chandigarh and made a friend there. Me and she being equally crazy and wanting to fulfill our weird bucket lists of crazy things decided its time to put a check next to the ‘Gate crashed a wedding’. We started by looking for a wedding venue to crash and as we were on lil Duo (my scooty), we found a Bhawan (Wedding Hall) it was Khukhrain Bhawan (folks from Chandigarh might know about it). We parked the Lil duo, adjusted our looks in the mirror and went inside. Since it was our very first time we were scared as hell but then we eventually started eating and just after few minutes into the wedding we came out of the wedding as it was enough crazy for the day.

It was scary the very first time but just like an adrenaline junky we decided to go for it again (Dar ke agge jeet hai) (Victory is beyond fear) and we were very hungry that day as well. Luckily, there was a wedding (we thought) that day as well in the same bhawan. We did not thought that even if the people change the staff will be the same, and they might get suspicious of us. We entered and this time we just attacked the food, ate like a beast. But then we noticed something strange, unlike the typical Indian wedding there was no tacky Dj songs being played, no shiny aunties with shiny sarees were there. All guys were in a suits and ladies in nice, classy dresses and gowns. And that is when we realized it was a retirement party not wedding.

As soon as we realized what we got ourselves into we ran as fast as we could and somehow no one caught us. (Phew) Now after that close shave with getting caught we decided that we have pushed our luck enough and its enough. But as our famous Ross said ‘Women tell each other everything, like everything’. She told about our lil adventure to her friends and suddenly they decided that they also wanna go there. I tried explaining them the risks and what all could go wrong but they were not ready to listen. And then that all emotional blackmail started and finally unwillingly I had to say Yes.

This time I was very sure we were gonna get caught and we will be make a joke of ourselves, even worse we might get into some serious trouble. But what can you say to three girls who have decided to go. So again we parked our Lil duo and waited for her friends to come and then we can make the plan to get in and out safely. After few minutes her friends were there and what I see is that one of her friend is dressed like she was the little sister to the bride, wearing a very nice suit, had done her make up and all, we were all stunned as we saw her. ‘Are you really sure you are not actually invited to the wedding?' we all asked sarcastically. And she just smiled and adjusted her flick.

We decided that we will enter in as a group with some uncle aunties to be seen as a part of their family members. We got in and then we scattered around (wrong move) to grab less attention. It was all going good so far but then I see a security guard talking to one of her friends and as I saw I thought that was it, now she is gonna spill all the beans and we will all be made fun of and dragged out by security guards. I could imagine security guard kicking me out of the place and people pointing and laughing at me! But then I was out of my thoughts and decided to intervene. The security guard was asking her that which side of the family she was from and as I came closer he asked me the same question. And I am not kidding this what the conversation was.

Me- Ye Mr verma ji ke bete ki shaadi nahi hai? (Is this not the wedding of Mr Verma's son?)

Guard- Kaun Verma ji sir? Sardaro ki shaadi hai! Bina permission ke ghus ate ho shaadiyo me, niklo chalo yaha se! (Who verma ji? This is a sikh wedding, guys like you enter the wedding without permission, now go out). Me- (facepalm through my face). My fears had turned into reality, there was a crowd starting to form around us and I was very scared. But then from the crowd there came a young man who politely asked the guard to let us go, its nothing much. I was relieved as he smiled at me and then went away. We all got together and started to move out.

But as we were moving out the guard came close to me and said ‘Sir hamme to madam ko dekhte hi pata lag gya tha, warna aap hi batao shaadi me chappal dal ke kaun ata hai?’ (We knew it from the very beginning as we saw the girl wearing slippers to a wedding) he said and moved away. Apparently, it was actually one of her friend that was wearing slippers with the dress, and we didn't notice. I told what guard said to me and she got angry and wanted go inside again just to tell the guard she actually wears slippers even if she is going to a (invited) wedding :p as she cannot wear heels. We stopped her as it was enough for the day. (Sigh). After that we didn't even mention the incident and now that I think of it, I think it was a funny incident. And I get share an interesting story. Cheers!