A Persian Girls Guide to a Tamil Wedding

Here are a few tips I had that I think will be useful for [Persian] girls marrying Tamil boys:

1. Make sure your hair is neatly done up. It doesn’t have to be in a bun but it should probably be up.

2. Make sure you have tried on your sari before hand, make sure the blouse fits and be observant about the areas of your body that will require that extra attention (Read: wax*) for the day of the ceremony. (*You’re Persian, the sooner you accept it the easier it will be.)

3. Have someone who knows how to put on a sari pleat and iron the sari and help dress you.

4. Try on the earrings before hand, make sure they are not too big and your ear hole can accommodate the earrings.

5. When walking to the place of the ceremony, you should kick the pleads with your feet ever so slightly so that you do not trip on them as you walk.

6. During the ceremony make sure your sari’s head piece isn’t caught under you when you sit down, it should fall over your shoulder and over the chair you are sitting on.

7. If you will be changing into a white dress make sure one of your friends helps you put on the dress and avoid any contact with the red powder that will be on your forehead and Thali.

8. Ask someone if you can wipe off the red powder of the Thali off after the ceremony so it doesn’t get on your white dress. Ram says that you aren’t actually allowed to wipe it off… Anyways just be careful. Also I think the powder should wash out if it does get on your dress. I’ll let you know once I pick up my dress from the dry cleaners.

9. Make sure your blouse is not too tight that your bra leaves imprints on your boobs, especially if you have a low cut white dress you are putting on later.

10. Have some body tape on you incase of last minute adjustments you need to make so you look perfect in that white dress.

11. If you have to wear the Thali forever, you will notice it will pluck your body hair, or head hair once in a while. That’s what you get for being Persian and marrying someone who’s Tamil. hah

I wrote this on 19 June 08 when I was feeling .

Comment

  1. A N N A says,

    Shima, congratulations! You and Ram look gorgeous in your pictures. :)

    This is a very handy guide, btw. Thanks for sharing. ;)

  2. ramanan says,

    You’re link number 3 in google for “persian tamil wedding” so no doubt this will help all those other Persian-Tamil couples out there.

  3. sh!ma says,

    I think I can add a few more points, but I just haven’t gotten around to it.

    Also, I don’t think there are that many Persian-Tamil couples out there! Hopefully we’ll start some sort of trend!haha

  4. saravana kumar says,

    hi, i am tamil and my wife is persian too.she would be thrilled to see ur blog.thanks

  5. Kashmira says,

    I’m so glad to find this blog… I am partly persian (my grandmother) and polish… and my partner is Indian. I have been looking for this type of info everywhere, and would you believe, by accident when I was looking up BELLYDANCE of all things, this poped up!!?!!? anyways… it was meant to be… thanks :-)

  6. tala says,

    salam shima, man iraniam, sakene italia, vali ta chand mahe dige ba ie pesare hendi ke albate behtare begam tamili esdevaj mikonam, dar vaghe in linko un peida kard be man dad, vasam kheili kheiliiiiiiiii jaleb bud, mishe iekam ettelaat be mn bedi be tore koli, omidvaram ke az ezdevajet razi bashi,fekr konam alan hodude 2 sal migzare,merc.

  7. Dariush says,

    Any Iranian women that marries a Tamil monkey should get burned alive , Shima you are a disgusting whore .

 
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