The wedding game-changer |
The wedding season has arrived in Karachi with a bang. It usually coincides with the holiday season in the West.
As the locals in these countries prepare for the celebrations of Christmas and new year the immigrants depart to their native countries to participate in the weddings of close relatives and subsequently Karachi comes alive with these visitors who throng shopping centers, restaurants and of course tailors who are as busy in these days as they usually are with the demands of the locals during the celebrations of the two Eids.
A wedding nowadays is not cheap specially for the upper classes. In the early days of Pakistan there was a sense of austerity.
Large well-equipped wedding halls had not come into existence, nor professional photography made its way to capture the important moments of a wedding. Digital had not yet surfaced and at best a cousin or a close friend would use their personal camera to capture the moments as best as they could.
Religiously........