Leaving For A City
By jaishankar
@Shivram59 (48619)
India
February 18, 2026 1:51am CST
Today I'm leaving for another city to take part in my niece's ring ceremony. She is my elder brother's daughter. In ring ceremony the bride and the groom exchange their rings.
The wedding will take place in July.
Now there are six members in my family - my mother, my father, one of my younger sisters who is unmarried by choice, my niece, my wife and myself. After my niece's marriage we will remain only five.
Hopefully I'll be back on the 20 th of the month.
I hope everything will go well.
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@Shivram59 (48619)
• India
18 Feb
Thank you. Yes, it is arranged All marriages in our family have been arranged ones.
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@Shivram59 (48619)
• India
19 Feb
@Rimps85 Thank you, my friend. The function will be held today in the evening
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@DaddyEvil (171395)
• United States
18 Feb
So this is a type of promise/engagement ceremony? I hope it goes well for them.
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@Shivram59 (48619)
• India
18 Feb
Yes, it's engagement. Rings are exchanged after some rituals are performed.
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@DaddyEvil (171395)
• United States
18 Feb
@Shivram59 We don't do ceremonies for that here. Usually engagement is private between the man and woman.
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@Shivram59 (48619)
• India
18 Feb
@DaddyEvil There was a time when engagements used to be private here also, but as time passed, it became an expensive affair.
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@Shivram59 (48619)
• India
18 Feb
Thank you.Yes, I reached here safe. Tomorrow is the function. Many of the boy's relatives have arrived. I'm going to meet them. The venue is at s hotel. There was a time when engagements used to be a private and simple function.Now it is very expensive, very expensive.
I hope everything will go well.
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@Shivram59 (48619)
• India
5 Mar
The ceremony has been over and we are back home. The marriage will take place in July.
@Shivram59 (48619)
• India
23 Feb
After some rituals the bride and groom exchange their rings. That's the reason why it is called ring ceremony.
The ceremony went well. Hundreds of ours and their relatives came from distant places to join the ceremony.
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@Shivram59 (48619)
• India
25 Feb
@sarik1 Thanks. It was a grand function. Not only I, but everyone else present there enjoyed it.
Glad to know you are fine.
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@Shivram59 (48619)
• India
24 Feb
I'm back home.Everything went well there and I enjoyed the ceremony. How are you??
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