Wedding excess and marriage essence |
Two mammoth weddings in Delhi recently upped the ever-expanding universe of glittering consumption to further absurdity. Instagram was overrun with reels of how one host hired a stadium for a concert by pop star Arijit Singh, while at the other, guests swayed in their finery to an electric performance by AP Dhillon. Conservative estimates suggest both weddings easily cost upwards of Rs 150 crores each, to be sure, small change for these industrialist families. Who knows, maybe what keeps the super wealthy committed to the splashy extravaganza are the expectations of those lower down the pecking order, lesser mortals caught up in striving and self-optimisation, stuck on the elusive search for the best life. When somebody has the means to live the dream, don’t they have a responsibility to share some of that Cristal champagne and Michelin-star chef created magic, with their merely solvent friends and family? After all, it’s everyone’s fantasy, to be so wealthy as to be insulated from the........