That was my childhood time. The middle middle class weddings were then really very enjoyable.
The things begun to happen a week before the actual wedding. Rice cleaning was probably the first work done by family women there. And then there were the rasms of mayoon, raat jaga, bari during the last 4-5 days leading to marriage day. There was no mehendi rasams then.
Speical foods were cooked during those rasams gulguly, doodh jableebi and kabuli cholay.
Most poeple used to buy a cow for meat. The cow was slaughtered on the night before marriage day, as marriages were held during day time then. Then the cook (bawarchi) used to start cooking biryani or qorma from early morning as mostly a single dish used to be presented. Everything was cooked in the mohallah on log fire. Nanbai was also called to come and instal his tandoor at the spot for gram gram roties!
Barat was mostly escorted by police band. That used to be the real charm for kids.
70s weddings.....I vaguely remember the same decoration for each and every wedding...and everyone still admired it. And now people pay a bomb for the most unique and talked about wedding settings.
That was my childhood time. The middle middle class weddings were then really very enjoyable.
The things begun to happen a week before the actual wedding. Rice cleaning was probably the first work done by family women there. And then there were the rasms of mayoon, raat jaga, bari during the last 4-5 days leading to marriage day. There was no mehendi rasams then.
Speical foods were cooked during those rasams gulguly, doodh jableebi and kabuli cholay.
Most poeple used to buy a cow for meat. The cow was slaughtered on the night before marriage day, as marriages were held during day time then. Then the cook (bawarchi) used to start cooking biryani or qorma from early morning as mostly a single dish used to be presented. Everything was cooked in the mohallah on log fire. Nanbai was also called to come and instal his tandoor at the spot for gram gram roties!
Barat was mostly escorted by police band. That used to be the real charm for kids.
Well its no longer the case now. Food is not that much tasty. Everything is cooked on gas stoves. Now we have wedding halls where marriges are held in the evening and mostly very very late.
Or it could be that we had a middle class that ACTUALLY EXISTED back then and the inflation was manageable!
I think the first real big devaluation of dollar came in bhutto's time when dollar went from 3 Rs to 11 Rs [sounds rosy now compared to 77 Rs doesn't it :D ].
What I remember from 70's wedding is the bawarchi on the spot, cooking Pulao and Zarda in Daigs .. they use to come with a charpai, two three daigs, and wood to burn.
They were there 5-6 hours in advance, cut onions, peel garlic and cook everything from the scratch ..
The menu was so smiple, Pulao, Zarda and raitaa .. Biryani and Qorma came in late 70's and early 80's ..
First time someone in our family served 3-4 dishes and had paan and ice cream truck came for kids at the end, I remember people talked about that wedding for the whole year.