If there's one thing in Pakistani weddings that I don't like it's mithai! Uff! I just don't like it!
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^ I'm with you on that one! ukhch
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have fresh fruit instead! its yummier and goes down easier in large quantities. a friend of mine had btie-sized pieces of strawberries and pineapple.
The karrah that was originally supposed to be given was actually an heir loom. It was supposed to be something passed down from MIL to DIL for ages. And so when the new DIL would be chosen, the MIL would take the karrah off of her wrist and put it on the new DIL. Now the question when you have more than 1 DIL. Haha.. Well, Karrahs were usually given in pairs. And in sets of 2s or 4s. So the MIL usually had a set of 2s or 4s to distribute to her DILs when they married into the family. However, the oldest baho was given preference -- Bari baho!:p
our family passes on other heirlooms like complete jewellery sets, and that happens at the time of the marriage, not baat pakki. the sets my dadi gave my mom are going to my bro's wife, and the ones my nani gave my mom are coming to me.
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^^hot damn, i always wanted someone to pass something on to me…but too bad our whole family’s too ghetto to be doing that. 
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^ you start the tradition! :)
If there's one thing in Pakistani weddings that I don't like it's mithai! Uff! I just don't like it!
yuck..me neither!
^ you start the tradition! :)
i shall do that with my kids insh'Allah..but i doubt they'll find my stuff nice, they'll prolly have better stuff out then :-/
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heirlooms are meaningful because of whom they belonged to more than what they are. i have no doubt your children will treasure whatever you pass down to them from what you have and hold precious
I'm having malteesers and m&m's on mine.. even fresh fruit wud be nice. I just wudn't want aunties feeding me with their hands or dropping the fruit on me!
I'm also gonna keep hand-sanitizer at hand.. :D
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^ I'm with you on that one. I'm germ-o-phobic! :p
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yaar, thats why you keep a little plastic fork, or a couple, in front of you along with the fruit :p
or you could do little toothpicks pre-inserted into each of them. that way they just pick it up, you eat it, they throw the toothpick out.
yaar, thats why you keep a little plastic fork, or a couple, in front of you along with the fruit :p or you could do little toothpicks pre-inserted into each of them. that way they just pick it up, you eat it, they throw the toothpick out.
tooth picks worked wonders for me!
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I'm horrible. I hate people touching my food, talking over my food, breathing over my food.
LMAO.
Shoot me.
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i think you'll have to deal with that, unfortunately :p
and i think toothpicks will be your best friends, frankly! with mithai, its a lot of hands over an entire plate. yuck. i almost barfed at my mehendi- wayyyy too much mithai. there wasn't enough time to organise the fruit! the horror, the horror...
^ I'm known to be "vehmi" :S my fiance never lets me forget that I wash my hands after switching-off the lights or turning them on!
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^ OCD?
Shayad! I can't finish/have a single piece of laddoo, gulab jamun dunno HOW the poor poor brides have so much of it!
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well firstly, you should keep kalakand only if you're going to keep mithai- its wayyy less sweeter than those two you mentioned and its not got any rus that'll drip down your clothes.
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Poor brides spend months losing weight, only to be piled back on with 12 lbs of mithai in one night. Its a miracle they fit in their shaadi kay joray the next day!:p