Pre-wedding Lunch: (Kelwan)

1. Flower Decoration around the lunch plate

In India, marriage is said to be union of two individuals for the life to pursue dharma, arth and kama. Dharma means to follow human duties together, arth means to earn together and store it properly in a positive way and kama means to satisfy each others physical desires.  Such a all over deep meaning is there. So marriage is a religious and festive occasion.

The celebration and rituals differ from state to state. In Maharashtra also marriage is full of rituals, colours, music, decorations and enjoyments. There are so many events in marriage ceremony.

Kelwan is one of the tradition followed on both sides bride and groom. Close relatives or family friends invite the bride / groom and her / his family for lunch or dinner.

When I think about this tradition, why it is? what is it's purpose? I think......,

The purpose of that may be that marriage is a big event to be celebrated along with relatives and friends. In old days there was no event managers or contract systems, so family persons particularly father / mother used to be very engaged and had extra exertion  during that period. So family friends and relatives invite them so that they could enjoy good lunch or dinner (which should not be neglected in that busy period)

Secondly the bride was supposed to go in some other city or join with the new family so Kelwan is organised so that they can have some chat with the girl  in a free atmosphere. Of course the menu of lunch / dinner would be favourite to her / him. The decoration should also be pleasant so that the family should be refreshed after that lunch or dinner.

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The point behind such a long write up is, my sister's daughter is going to get married on 1st Jan 2019. I invite the family for lunch called "Kelwan", you may call it pre-wedding lunch. My niece and my sister like flowers of course every one likes but their love about flower is extra ordinary. So I decided to make some flower decoration in Kelwan and here it is Fig 1. No need to say that along with this decoration there is delicious lunch with five sweets.

Some more photos and close up of this decoration is below.

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ETC: Enjoy the Creativity.