Our parents met earlier this week for the first time and since then it's been fairly hectic with lots of visits, dinners, lunches and much socialisation. Yesterday was the first official ceremony at W's place. Preps for the ceremony, at least for me, started on Tuesday itself with his mom putting Mehendi for me.
Gud Dhana essentially involves formalising the promise to get married by giving the bride and groom to be Coriander seeds with Gud (Raw cane sugar). The couple is then blessed by all the elders of the family as well. The custom is a Marwari one (W is half Gujarati, half Marwari).
Apart from the short (and sweet ceremony), we also got to meet most of his family and were treated to a typical lunch of Puris, Undhiyon, Kofta, Rice, Dhokla, Basundhi and Moong Dal Halwa as well. Lots of good food after which skipping dinner was not a problem at all!
