Bhubaneswar: Gone is the days when the wedding used to underlook with complicated clothes, lots of gold jewelry, events throughout the day, hundreds of guests, complicated places with decoration decorations, spread plates and parties.
Indian weddings of large fats have become a muted and personal business without much splendor and show for the past half a year.
Thanks to Covid-19 Pandemics and subsequent restrictions to avoid the church and examine the spread of infection.
However, people have learned how to manage with a limit and a short list of guests to 25 including brides, grooms, and priests and with shopping online.
During a pandemic, people spend less at the wedding ceremony where masks and cleaners are part of new normal.
“The worst thing about tying the knot in the pandemic is that you have a leaner list of guests.
I miss my friends and close relatives on my big day because only 25 people can join the function in accordance with the government guidelines.
I hope the situation will soon be Improved and we can have a celebration later, “Anand Mishra said, who decided to forget the big event at his wedding and married in an intimate family affairs on Saturday.
Couples also make digital information cards and make their wedding direct telecast so family and friends can join them online.
ANUJ and Debhree, old friends became soulmate on Saturday, said, “This is a unique experience to get married during a pandemic.
Instead of their previous plan to make a celebration for one day, they trim it one day.
Because of the shops Closed, we have to manage without many things.
There are no bands, steel and west and we save money for this.
Facebook is a saved grace where we can connect with friends and relatives, “Anuj said.
Many families have postponed their wedding plans last year because of Covid’s first wave, did not take the opportunity this time and decided to tie the knot to follow all Covid guidelines due to sustainable uncertainty.
“I have delayed my marriage for the past one and a half years.
But we never knew whether the Covid situation would be better or worse in the coming days.
We decided to hold it on our roof in the family.
Elders remember the days Those when the wedding was once held at home and not in hotels and graves without shows and buffets.
It’s not the time for the celebration when the whole world struggled against a deadly virus, “said Sasmita Mohanta, who married right before the beginning of the second wave this year.
Of all the wedding experiences, shopping is one that has really stopped because of a pandemic.
“I always imagine a hard shopping on sari, jewelry and cosmetics for my wedding, but Lockdown ruined everything.
Because locking shops that sell unimportant items such as garments and jewelry are closed in Bhubaneswar.
My sister who lives in Hyderabad makes a call Video and shopping for me from there.
Most of the shopping ranging from gifts to in-laws to clothing, we shop online, “said Radhika Swain, the bride who had just married that he did not have other regrets for the wedding reception trimmed.
The wedding industry also caused a big loss when a pandemic damaged the wedding season starting from homeowners tents, catering, mandap, flower shops, band parties and DJ bands, video experts, photographers, and video operators.
However, they said they had trimmed their package accordingly.
“People used to order photographers for one week before the wedding but now the wedding is only a business one or two days.
To stay in business, we have also cut our package and break it down into a smaller transaction,” said Ranjan Sahu, a photographer wedding.