The Wedding Toast!!!

Starring: Tanveen Dugal and Siddharth Puri
Script: Siddharth Puri and Harish Puri
Direction: Harish Puri

Here's the toast that Tanu and I presented at Puja and Sukh's reception...

Tanu: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen… I’m Tanu, sister of the groom…
Sid: And I’m Siddharth, brother of the bride… As the siblings, Tanu and I have the honour to raise a toast to the lovely couple…
Tanu: We’re glad to have all of you here tonight to grace this wonderful occasion… I know all of you are dying to get onto the dance floor, so we’ll try to keep this short…
Sid: Tanu, there’s a famous saying: “Marriage isn’t a word…it’s a sentence”. I’m sure that all the married folks in the crowd will agree with this…Right??? So, folks…Here we stand tonight, to celebrate this “sentence” for Puja and Sukh…
Tanu: Well, I’ve known the two of them as a couple for quite some time now, and I can’t think of any two people more right or more ready for this journey…or as you put it, this sentence!
Sid: True, I second that thought completely… how long has it been then? 6 years???
Tanu: Yup, 6 years…long time indeed!!! Isn’t it true that a man in love is incomplete until he is married.. ??
Sid: Yeah, and once he’s married, he’s finished!
Tanu: I guess that’s how things work, huh? Folks, for those of you who know Puja and Sukh well, I’m sure you’ll agree that both of them are very different, and often DIFFICULT, individuals.
Sid: And for those of you haven’t had that pleasure, well, I’m sure the wedding invite would have served as a good prelude…
Tanu: As the invite so rightly says, together they just seem to ‘fit’! Seeing these two come together has been a joy to watch…
Sid: Frankly, I think over the years they’ve just developed a mechanism to not get on each other’s nerves that often…
Tanu: Correct! They complement each other so well – two different and imperfect people forming a perfect couple. What say?
Sid: Right! Like how Sukh is a recluse, a reserved guy so-to-speak…and Puja is an out-and-out extrovert…
Tanu: Yeah, or like how Sukh loves to do his laundry, while Puja is fascinated by the dishwasher…
Sid: Like how she loves to do touristy stuff when she travels, and how he’d rather just sit at a Starbucks sipping his coffee!
Tanu: Or like how Puja is amazing with kids, and how Sukh still is one!
Sid: Yup, the list is long! And although they may be opposites in many ways, they are quite alike too, you know…
Tanu: Oh yeah! That list is long too…like how they’re both gadget freaks?! Be it the MacBook, the ipad, the iphone, the kindle…PHEW! You name it!
Sid: Or like the number of toiletries that each of them possesses! I mean being metrosexual is one thing, Sukh. But, come on, you’re 2 products short of having your own show in Vegas!
Tanu: And their craze for watching movies…and going to the theatre more for the nachos and pop-corn rather than the movie itself!
Sid: Or like how they worship Steve Jobs…
Tanu: or how they just love to shop…
Sid: or being self-proclaimed nerds…and being damn proud of it!
Tanu: Yup, at the risk of sounding clichéd, they do ‘complete’ each other! Sid, don’t they say marriages are made in heaven?
Sid: Sure! As are thunder and lightning!!…
Tanu: Haha.. Well, marriage!! Coming home every evening to a little love, a little caring, a little tenderness.. What does that sound like, Sid??
Sid: Sounds like you’ve come to the wrong house!! Folks, here’s to Sukh – a man who keeps his head although he loses his heart..
Tanu: And here’s to Puja – may she share everything with her husband – including the housework!!!
Sid: Happy marriages begin when we marry the one we love,
Tanu: And they blossom when we love the one we married...
Sid: Here’s to the prettiest
Tanu: Here’s to the wittiest
Sid: Here’s to the neatest
Tanu: Here’s to the sweetest
Sid: Here’s to Puja and Sukh – the truest of the true..
Tanu: May your destination be your destiny..
Sid: Cheers!!!