It is very very elusive, reactions are delayed thanks to being in denial. But when it hits you, it hits you hard. The things that point the way are many and myriad. Some being:
When you go into a veggie store and actually pick out good ones and ask the vendor if they are really good or not, coz you have no clue if they are good or aren't, and then you get smart comments or strange looks from the vendor.
When you go grocery shopping with a list given by mom because you don't even know what are the must haves in the kitchen and you are clueless about what dal is for what dish and you never knew there were so many dal's in the first place.
When you have to be in the kitchen making dinner while the husband to be and brother are happily watching the match, this when you have never missed a single match if you were at home and made sure you kept away from the kitchen area at all times of the year.
When you get more calls from the furniture store and the curtain store and home stop's of the world than calls from friends.
When romantic late night conversations do not exist at all.
When cleaning and obsessive behaviour of ma that you dreaded so much manifests in you like a latent program the minute you enter your home.
When you have more packing plans for late evening than party plans.
When you are wondering of you are wife material at all and making alternate plans of taking to your heels and running away, just in case.
When everything slowly spins away from your locus of control.
When your mother tells you that your wedding is her event and not yours and you have to wait for your daughter to be wedded to manage that as your event.
When you have to fight off suggestions of gold, jewellery, flowers and make up and try and hold your peace.
When your dreams revolve around every single factor that could go wrong at the wedding or even after.
Phew! I am sweating bullets!
Two months to go! May 23rd, please take your time in coming.
