This just in...

Bill and the Brides' families, after days of negotiations, have finally reached an agreement on who gets to conduct the actual wedding ceremony. The wedding will be conducted jointly by a Tam priest and a Bong priest. These priests would have to decide on wedding day what specific mantras/shlokas should be recited, in what order and who gets to recite them. They would also need to figure out how to interweave specific Tam and Bong ceremonies so as to make the process as seamless as possible.

The task of finding a Bong priest in Trivandrum will be Mr. M's responsibility. He will be talking to the local Bong association to see whether a priest is available. Reliable sources claim that there's a high possibility of some 'emergency' happening to this soon-to-be-found-Bong priest at the last minute though Mr. M has denied it quite vehmently.

It must be mentioned here that both Bill and the Bride, being non-religious to a fault, had put forth the suggestion of having no priest for the wedding. Needless to say, it was rejected within a second of the suggestion being made. Now all we look forward to is the image of both of us sitting on the mandap, all dressed up, waiting for the priests to stop fighting about which mantra to recite. Maybe we weren't meant to get married.