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Meet Konnie Kara - wedding journalist by day; bride-to-be by night. With insider access to the latest bridal news, trends and planning advice she’s been called a wedding guru many times, but does she have what it takes to plan her own special day? Offering honest, frank and humorous insights, this is an account of one of the most exhilarating, and rollercoaster-emotion-filled years of her life
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I already am Mrs, I know you know that. But this is where I am legally a Mrs and my parents will allow Vinnie and I to sleep in the same bed when we go home to see them together.
Tomorrow I have my pre-wedding party and then I will wake up the morning after that and be face to face with my groom, in Indian regalia and an audience of 250 guests as we take our vows. We don’t actually speak during the Hindu ceremony which is a small blessing as I don’t think I could hold it together in front of so many people. I cried in a standard registry office, remember?
I have to remember to hold this coconut as I walk down the aisle (my mother has told me) so I keep repeating that to myself not to forget – just like how I used to repeat things to myself when I was studying for my GCSE exams and needed to pass. Marriage after all is going to be the biggest test of my life.
As I write this, my house is packed downstairs with relatives and friends all catching up with one another and wearing fabulous clothes – it’s like a Bollywood fashion show down there. It’s pretty rowdy too, so I’m finding it hard to write and concentrate with all the noise. I’ve got a nice sari on, have buggered up the diet by jamming the cakes for tomorrow’s afternoon tea party down my throat in a stress-comfort-eating competition with myself – not to mention four BIG fat fried samosas.
Payal has promised to give me a quick pedicure tonight before the henna artist attempts to prettify my feet so that will at least allow me to relax and listen to my aunts exchange dirty double entendres about wedding nights, a custom they have been upholding ever since I can remember when it comes to family weddings.
Any worries I have had or will have will now have to slip away into oblivion as we just get on with enjoying the next two days of my official singledom! I suspect this is the last time I’ll be blogging now until I am married. I will post something before we head off on honeymoon to let you know how it all went. Lots and lots of love to my fellow brides – I’ve got my virtual confetti ready for all of you too! - and wish me a lifetime of luck ahead!
Love Konnie xxx
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