Rarely Said

Fusion weddings tend to turn one culture into the other’s decor. For a Bengali bride and a Malayali groom, we kept the count even.

M. S. Subbulakshmi believed only about half of practice shows on stage, her great-granddaughter says. A wedding has an unseen half too.

Jasmine is picked as a bud and has to reach the market before it opens.

In a medieval hall, your seat told the room your rank. For a hundred guests in Bengaluru, we laid a table that said something else.