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I wore a sari to wedding today (it’s like 20-something years old (if not older) from my mother’s collection that she never wears, but everything old is new again, so I’m like yay, fashion extravaganza!!) and remember when I said tighter is better? I have a red line going around my waist to mark [...]

I just spent the last thirty minutes calling people to figure out whether there is a wedding tonight. Actually, not so much WHETHER there’s a wedding tonight (because this summer, the safe answer to that question is yes, there is a wedding tonight) as WHERE the wedding is tonight.
I’ve confirmed what I already figured (yes, [...]

I’ve had several posts in my head over the last week, but I haven’t actually written any of them out to completion, partly because of work and partly because of carpal tunnel and partly because I’ve simply haven’t had time to write things down lately.
I had a piece half written about World Refugee Day and [...]

Y’all, I just did three wedding receptions in three cities in three days. I am so tired my contacts are sticking to my eyeballs, and I didn’t even do any of the driving. I’ve never seen Clockwork Orange, but at this exact moment, I’m not averse to using toothpicks to prop my eyelids open. (Of [...]

The “ish” because it wasn’t the wedding so much as our final destination (also known as “home”) that was doing its best monsoon impression. Because of the vigorous typhoon sweeping over Atlanta, we were stuck in the not-so-lovely Ft. Lauderdale airport until such time as the Hartsfield ground crew deemed it safe for us to [...]

I finally got a copy of Aasif’s pictures from Sumaiya’s wedding. They are far and away the best pictures out of our amateur bunch. So, without further ado, a selection of his pictures (from the valima only as I’m still filtering through the ones from the actual wedding day) that I thought y’all might like [...]

The camera was on LSD, but aren’t we pretty girls?

Sumaiya and me

I’m trying to track down the other (good) copy of this picture…

This week so far has been about only the mehndhi, and now, 2000 flowers, 1000 lights, one arch, six tables, four trays, 65 chairs, and twelve tulip-shaped candleholders later, it is done. I think I can safely say everyone had an amazing time.
I am far too tired to write up anything resembling a description, so [...]

At approximately 8:30 a.m. today I put on a pair of pink Chinese Laundry shoes (similar to these, although I think my heels were shorter) that I found at DSW in five minutes yesterday. (In five minutes ’cause I only had five minutes as I was technically on my lunch break — my 3:00 lunch [...]