Five Crazy Things to Expect Before a Typical Indian Shaadi

From annoying aunties to drive-you-up-the-wall shaadi shopping, there’s a lot you don’t know about pre-wedding craze

You have to love the big, fat Indian wedding. There’s dancing and food. There are slurring uncles, annoying aunties, people who think they’ve become better dancers two drinks down and some people who order things from outside the buffet because that’s how they roll. (They should be made to pay for those extras.)

As you can imagine, there’s a lot of planning that goes into making the Indian wedding as grand and as awesome as it looks on that day. But nobody tells you these things. There’s a wedding coming up in my family and I get to watch the entire process from close quarters.

Here’s what they don’t tell you about wedding planning.