On 9th everyone got ready wearing yellow kurta and sarees. Soon Kabir and Dhruv brought Manik out for the ceremony as it started with the groom and then the bride.

Amms and dadi applied haldi to Manik. It was quite funny as he wouldn't stop making faces and made it difficult to apply haldi on him. Finally after the older married women were done. they allowed his friends to apply it on him. All applied it very slowly just to spite him but all of a sudden Kabir emptied the entire bowl of haldi on Manik drenching him completely. All of them literally played holi. Amms took some haldi left in Manik's bowl and mixed it along with Nandini's bowl. They called Nandini out after sending Manik in to take a shower.

Nandini was made to sit on the seat and then following the Tamilian culture, they did her aarti and Meera touched her forehead with a leaf after dipping it in oil. After her Amms came forward and dipped the same leaf in haldi and applied it on her head. Soon one by one all applied it to Nandini and then she took bath with the water and necessities that were brought from Manik's household.

Next day
11 o' clock

All the ladies were seated in the garden of the palace dancing and singing as it was mehandi ceremony. Niyonika came forward with the tray she had and placed it on the table which contained mehendi for Nandini along with dry fruits and sweets. She took the cone in which she had stored mehendi and applied a little on both her hands. Then she let the professional mehendi artists take over meanwhile amms being the emotional woman she is started singing touching her granddaughter's face to express her emotions through her words and Nandini's mom joined her in the middle.

(Please plug in the song- Kabira enchore of yeh jawaani hai deewani).

Banno re banno meri chali sasuraal ko
Ankhiyon mein paani de gayi
Duaa mein meethi gud dhaani le gayi (x2)

Then Abhimanyu came forward and sang touching his sister's face and kissing her forehead lightly who returned to India two weeks ago to attend his beloved sister's wedding rituals and be a part of it.

Re Kabira maan jaa
Re Faqeera yun na ja
Aaja tujhko pukaare teri parchhaaiyan
Re Kabira maan ja
Re Faqeera yun na ja
Kaisa tu hai nirmohi kaisa harjaaiya

Some of the older guest uncles and aunties playing the tabla sang.

Re Kabira, Re Kabira
Re Fakeera, Re Fakeera... (x2)

All were dancing around Nandini when Kabir sang seeing Nandini and hugged her kissing her head and then abhi also joined.

Tooti chaarpai wohi thandi purvaai rasta dekhe
Doodhoon ki malaai wohi
Mitti ki suraahi rasta dekhe... (x2)

Ho Doodhoon ki malaai wohi
Mitti ki suraahi rasta dekhe...

Nandini's mom sang and she became sad and was going to cry but rishab consoled her.l

Gudiya ri gudiya tera gudda perdesiya
Jodi aasmani ho gayi
Shagun pe dekho shaad maani ho gayi (x2)

Rishab sang and Nandini was on the verge of crying now. She almost let out two three tears but her grandmother wiped it.

The ladies then sang and the girl side family spend time and almost in tears.

Re Kabira maan jaa
Re Faqeera yun na jaa
Aaja tujhko pukaare teri parchhaaiyan
Re Kabira maan ja
Re Faqeera yun na ja
Kaisa tu hai nirmohi kaisa harjaaiya

Re Kabira, Re Kabira...
That's how the sweet family function got over with lots of emotions in hearts and reflection on face.

Later at night time they thought to sit and talk and that was the elders plan. The youngsters were all with their loved ones checking out their mehandi.

Manan was sitting in Nandini's room.

Manik: Nandu show me your mehendi.

She was about to but then suddenly ran screaming: why should I!

Nandini!!!! Manik screamed and started to chase her around. He caught her and back hugged her and said: gotcha!!

He started to tickle her and she started laughing.

Finally when he stopped he pull her by her waist and checked out her mehendi.

Manik: beautiful but not more than you.

She blushed and then he kissed her palm and hugged her tightly and after one hour he left to his room.

Manik's pov.

I was waiting with the guys for the girls to come. Soon they came out and Nandini like always took my breathe away. She was wearing a white and black jumpsuit. We then left to explore Udaipur.

We first visited the city palace. The place was wonderful and a guide helped us explore the place.

Nandini and I had our hands entwined. We were exploring the place and talking in-between I would kiss her and she would just blush.

Next we visited a lake, Lake Pichola.

Next jag mandir on lake Pichola.

Next monsoon palace

Next fateh sagar lake.

Last place that we visited was moti magir.

The whole journey was beautiful. We sang and danced happily , clicking pictures of couples, singles and group picture at the end. After a long happening but tiring day we returned back to the palace.

After goodbyes and kisses we all retired to sleep and the next thing I know that tomorrow is sangeet.

Word count:885 words.

Precap: sangeet.

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