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the big fat Indian wedding

Indian weddings are typically fat. In the last few years, there has been a steep rise in the rate of obesity among Indian weddings. The economy worldwide may have taken a sudden down turn but it failed to remove the extra cheese from Indian pizzas and dampen the spirit and extravagance of the Indian wedding scenario. The increase in the spending power coupled with peer pressures to show off and display are touted as the reasons behind these obese weddings. The sluggishness of the IT people also plays a small but important role. Fancy destinations, mind-blowing backdrops, designer clothes, exquisite jewelry, huge variety of food and lip smacking sweets are the consequence of the big fat Indian wedding. The big fat Indian wedding helps in bringing together distant cousins and provides them with an opportunity to bond over food, booze and taash (poker of the East)! They bestow upon young’uns the good fortune of meeting fellow young’uns and are places where new love stories take birth. Th