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Busy season for marriages ahead: The Hindustan Times
Delhi, Nov 17: If you are planning to get married this month, and haven`t yet booked your priest, bandwallah and tent house, better forget it. All things from priests (to perform the ceremony) to parks (to hold it in) are booked. Reason: Delhi will see 10,000-plus weddings each day this fortnight.
Delhi, Nov 17: If you are planning to get married this month, and haven't yet booked your priest, bandwallah and tent house, better forget it. All things from priests (to perform the ceremony) to parks (to hold it in) are booked. Reason: Delhi will see 10,000-plus weddings each day this fortnight.
"The month of Margashisha starts either from November 17 (Saka) or November 21 (Vikrami Samvat)," explains astrologer Prem Kumar Sharma.
The two most auspicious days to get married this season are November 27 and 28. "The planetary position (the Sun and Jupiter) will be most favourable for a happy marital life on these days," says Sharma.
Among the would-be couples caught in the rush to hold weddings on the right days are Ravish Sharma and Sudeshna. But there is a problem. "We are yet to find even a single decent banquet hall and caterer," says a frustrated Ravish. The couple have planned to tie the knot on November 28, before Ravish leaves for the US in early December.
Ravish's family purohit ditched him saying he had too much on his plate in November. Now the busy priest's understudy will fill in.
The rush this month is also due to the long "inauspicious period" that began in April and ended only now.
The catering industry, however, is celebrating. "We are heavily booked for the latter half of November," says Pradeep of Swagat Band.
"Bookings were made more than two months in advance," says an employee of the Royal Court, a Delhi banquet hall. Most parks too have been booked by tent houses.
Queering the pitch for would-be couples are unusual suspects —politicians. Competing for bookings at banquet halls and parks are iftar parties and election rallies.
"The month of Margashisha starts either from November 17 (Saka) or November 21 (Vikrami Samvat)," explains astrologer Prem Kumar Sharma.
The two most auspicious days to get married this season are November 27 and 28. "The planetary position (the Sun and Jupiter) will be most favourable for a happy marital life on these days," says Sharma.
Among the would-be couples caught in the rush to hold weddings on the right days are Ravish Sharma and Sudeshna. But there is a problem. "We are yet to find even a single decent banquet hall and caterer," says a frustrated Ravish. The couple have planned to tie the knot on November 28, before Ravish leaves for the US in early December.
Ravish's family purohit ditched him saying he had too much on his plate in November. Now the busy priest's understudy will fill in.
The rush this month is also due to the long "inauspicious period" that began in April and ended only now.
The catering industry, however, is celebrating. "We are heavily booked for the latter half of November," says Pradeep of Swagat Band.
"Bookings were made more than two months in advance," says an employee of the Royal Court, a Delhi banquet hall. Most parks too have been booked by tent houses.
Queering the pitch for would-be couples are unusual suspects —politicians. Competing for bookings at banquet halls and parks are iftar parties and election rallies.