and now cholu--- the newari bride!

 today, february 14th, valentine's day was the day of the wedding reception from avaya's side of the family.  priya once again in a shakeel makeover, turned into a newari bride.. a different, demure look almost.. with lots of gold on her including the beautiful 'loo~ya swa~' on her hair...  the party was in the durbar banquet in soaltee mode

the couple... looking relaxed and radiant

mami with her natini

 rajendra bhattarai and sameeta who are here from austin texas, did finally find the opportunity to attend 'chyantulimyau's' wedding!

 dada with indra kaka and the couple

 weighed down with soon!

 with prabesh man shakyaji, avaya's bhinaju (sister's husband)

 there was a rolling slide show on the side, as well as the panel of paper flowers -- priya's brainchild

 the reception area

with erika

 fuzzy but still good! 

  nirmalji with baba and rajendraji 

it was after many many years that mami and prem bahadur shakyaji (friends from the panchayat days) got to meet and chat with each other...  

and then chatting with prabeshmanji while prem bahadurji  looks on

the theme of the day of the ladies of the family was red.. gowns for the younger ones and branded sari for the elders

 a bride's eye view...

 phupu and kakis (in red) with other guests

  the week-old-couple. 14th feb, is also the day that they first met!

 

baba and me with kripa (priya's classmate) who is also recently wed

 with avaya's phupu...

 and avaya with priya and her phupu and phupaju!

 cholu with phupu

 the red brigade (avaya's sisters and aunts including phupu and kakis)

 i too joined the red brigade

 rajendra shakyaji.. who was baba's colleague at the institute of engineering was my colleague at unicef until he retired two months ago, and now our samdhi!

 milan with sameeta

 dining time

 cholu ,smriti and surabhi share a joke

 with the dixits

 .. and the bhattarais...

 ninaji (avaya's bhauju) and me, samdhinis of sorts

 the dixit boys and their bhinaju make an effort not to blink!

baba and his 'piyu' before we left for home

 

thus ends the wedding formalities!!!!