Wedding Files

...The engagement happened within 2 weeks of the final 'yes' and the first thing I did once the engagement date was finalized was to go to....

http://www.crazyindianwedding.com/2012/12/how-it-all-began.html

....Craziness starts today! I am kind of enjoying sitting back and relaxing while I see my family members running around getting the house ready for the pooja...

http://www.crazyindianwedding.com/2013/01/pooja.html

...While my makeup artist tried to sort things out, my lehengha was being draped and OMG such a heavy lehenga! Somehow we tied it but it wasn't as perfect....

http://www.crazyindianwedding.com/2013/01/wedding-event-2-tilak.html

....For Haldi I had rice in my hand, my own chunni on my head and my mothers saree-ka-palla on it too...

http://www.crazyindianwedding.com/2013/01/wedding-event-3-haldi-what-to-expect.html

....When she started with my mehendi on the first hand I felt a new profound respect for all brides before me....

http://www.crazyindianwedding.com/2013/01/wedding-event-4-mehendi-album.html

...None of us had expected it to be so huge, our wildest dream wedding, the whole big fat Indian wedding package, all royal and Indian-y...

http://www.crazyindianwedding.com/2013/01/wedding-event-5-big-fat-indian-wedding.html

.....I was ready by the time the barat came and was eagerly waiting, so much so that I kept peaking out to look at the firecrackers from the barat!....

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The emotional journey of the wedding......to be a bride is to experience every emotion you know in a short span of time...http://www.crazyindianwedding.com/2013/02/how-it-felt-to-be-bride-word-by-word.html

....we were welcomed in with an arti thali, followed by pushing a Kalash by my right foot so that the rice inside it spilled in the house.....

http://www.crazyindianwedding.com/2013/03/wedding-event-6-next-day.html

...my then-fiance-now-husband booked it as a surprise!...

http://www.crazyindianwedding.com/2013/03/honeymoon-south-africa.html

Wedding File 8 : Honeymoon : South Africa!

I started writing about Goa, when I realized that I haven't yet written about South Africa!!

There is sooo much to tell and so little space, don't want to bore you much so will try to be precise...

We booked our tour via Cox and Kings, rather my then-fiance-now-husband booked it as a surprise!  if you have been following the blog you will know why I wasn't involved in the decision making.

It took us 25 hours to reach South Africa, we switched flights in between. It could have taken us less amount of time to reach, but would have cost us the same amount as the whole 11 day trip.

Since we were going back in time with each flight we ended up being served 3 breakfast!!

Cango Wildlife Ranch
See the left bottom picture, one of the tiger cub is called Shahrukh Khan!

Patted a cheetah!!
He was ok when everyone else patted him, but the minute I did right after this picture it turned towards me, the wildlife range people rushed to my side to move me away.
When I fearlessly went to the next cheetah to pat him he roared at me!! Guess cheetah's dont like me much...

Cango Cave, they were super beautiful!

Ostrich Farm
Below Right picture : Yes I am standing on Ostrich eggs! They are the strongest of all eggs.

Sunset Cruise on Knysna Lagoon
This is the one we had most fun on, best feature of the whole trip :)

Betty's Bay
Penguins!

Pictures with everything yellow, in Cape town

Cape town
Got our pictures clicked with a recently married Christian Couple,
 just like they get clicked with Indian bride and groom when they come to India :P
Best Pizza of the trip! Cheese, Basil and Cherry Tomatoes.
Dance performance @ Victoria and Alfred Waterfront

Diamond Factory!

Seal Island in Atlantic Ocean

Safari

Zimbabwe
Welcomed by African dance
Visit to Victoria Falls
We also took a cruise on the Zambezi River

Some of the yummy food we had!
We are eggitarians, so ofcourse eating the local food was a no-no.
Breakfast was at the hotels and not big of an issue since there was always bread, eggs and really good deserts.
Lunch was tit-bits and dinner was good though out.
 We were provided with Indian dinner every day except in Victoria Falls where we had pizza for dinner instead.
Below Right : Popcorn Chocolate, super yum!!

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