The
Big Fat Indian (Pandemic) Wedding
Who
said marriages are only made in heaven Some marriages -especially the ones in
2020 - are made in the pandemic. It has been one of the events that even the
mighty pandemic couldn't stop. People are getting married, and the guests are
gracing all their functions like nothing has changed. The only new addition
perhaps is the designer masks in coordination with the lehenga's and sherwani's.
To get a better insight into the phenomenon and see how many weddings are
actually taking place, we conducted a poll with 1,921 respondents. We asked
them whether they had attended any wedding after the spread of Covid-19 in
their region, and 39.77% of respondents replied with a resounding yes. Out of
them, 27.28% of them say they have been to one wedding since, while 12.49% of
them have attended more than one wedding during the pandemic. 58.36% of the
respondents, however, say they haven?t been to any wedding. They also do not
know anyone who got married in these times. The poll also had a few newlywed
respondents (1.87%) who revealed that their wedding actually did take place in
the pandemic. And one thing's for certain it would have been a ceremony no
one will ever forget!