The Big Fat ‘MAD Wedding’ :)
The Big Fat ‘MAD Wedding’ 
Scene 1: A month and half ago…
One fine morning, Vivek chats me up on Gtalk saying, “Bro, I have got something really important to tell you!”
Now, we are 2 busy professionals and dont really chat all that much while in office. So, his prompt intrigued me.
I replied asking, “What could be so important? You getting married??? Hehe”
Now this quip would not come as a surprise to many ‘cos Viv (being a lil older than the rest of us and ofcourse being of marriageable age) always used to get his leg pulled in this fashion.
What he replied took some time to sink in – “Yes bro! I am!!!”
What followed was a string of messages and calls between all the MADsters – many were pleasantly surprised, while many others thought someone was playing a prank on them (I don’t know if there were any broken hearts among the womenfolk! Hehe) – almost everyone found it really hard to come to terms with the fact that one of us was gonna get married! But, at the end of the day, we were an extremely happy lot – wholeheartedly happy for Viv a.k.a Vingman and also happy with the realisation that not only was MAD growing, its volunteers were too (atleast growing old enough to get married! Hehe)
We were going to have our first official MAD marriage
Scene 2: Eve of the marriage…
Vivek, in the following days, was a man with ever-increasing excitement and his gay-abandon was evident in all the jokes he was cracking and all the ‘legs he was pulling’ (yours truly being at the receiving end more than once). Some of us were to land up at his place for dinner that day but failed to make it cos of unfavourable weather conditions.
On calling him 2 apologise, his words were, “You guys have missed some ‘awesome’ chicken!!!!’ Infact, his obsession with the ‘awesomeness’ of the chicken and his description of the same continued for the next five minutes. As a result, we couldn’t resist but end the day by cracking a joke along the lines of ‘The Last Supper’! Hehe
Scene 3: D-DAY…
The marriage was to happen at a place which was almost 4 hours away. Hence we had to start early. I was walking upto his house around 6am. It was still dark outside. I could make out a figure walking in the same direction from across the road. This figure, dressed in a jeans & tee and casually walking as if he had all the time in the world, looked kinda familiar.
It was when the figure got close enough that I couldn’t help blurting out, “OMG! Isn’t it supposed to be YOUR Marriage today? What are you doing walking around like this???”
The figure/Viv calmly replies,”Hey, I can’t help it if ppl decide to land up at the doorstep for my marriage when I myself have not contemplated getting dressed!!!”
Being the person to have to travel the longest to get to his place, I didnt want to be the reason for a delay. Guess I kinda overdid it and was too early. Hehe!
In the next half hour, the MAD gang landed up – Aps, Cathy, Meera, Jr. & Nikhil. Yes, we were ready to get Viv married
Out comes the groom. I dunno what it was (could be the realisation that comes from wearing your wedding dress), but the Viv that we saw was a tense man, a bundle of nerves. Gues this is what they call ‘marriage jitters’:)
Nevertheless, he made it a point to warn that Nikhil (who was dressed to kill in a white pyjama kurtha) should stand only in the background of any pics taken with the groom, so as not to steal his thunder
Off we went in the exclusive ‘MAD cab’, that the groom had graciously provided us with (thnx bro), to get the Vingman married!!!
Scene 4: ‘You may kiss the bride’
To cut a long story short, 11:45am on the 17th of May 2009 saw Vivek aka Mr.Vingman happily married to Soumya aka Mrs.Vingman!
We reported the event live to the rest of the MAD world via messages and were flooded with replies ranging from “God bless them” to “Please convey my heartfelt condolences to Viv” (the last one was obviously a joke! Hehe)
The pics here show the happy couple; the groom ‘sweating’; finally heaving ‘a sigh of relief and drinking a lot of water’; and ofcourse, the husband being too tired after the ‘ordeal’ and not bothering to get up (he privately confessed later on that it was, infact, due to a ‘wardrobe malfunction’. Hehe!) and the dutiful wife taking over the charge of meeting the guests.
When we went up on stage to greet them, it was evident that they had indeed been talking a lot about MAD and the MADsters cos Soumya had no trouble recognizing any of us, although she was seeing us for the first time. Her familiarity with us was so much that she even quipped about me having put on weight!!! Unfortunately, we couldnt get anyone to click a pic of all of us together to be put up here, but am sure the same can be rectified at the reception today eve, where the whole of MAD Cochin would be present.
Let us wish Vivek & Soumya a very happy married life!!!
PS: As Vivek later clarified for our benefit, it is ‘married life’ with an ‘M’ and not ‘harried life’ with an ‘H’!!! Hehe.
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