DD's ear piercing ceremony

The long awaited ear piercing ceremony for our sweetheart. I eagerly wanted to see her wearing ear rings. Whenever I get to change my ear rings she will be so excited to get herself wear one. Her most lovely anticipated ceremony was decided to be on May 8th after picking upon so many dates this was the one which was finalized.

Starting from the purchases Sankar was very particular that we give her the best. Started with buying ear ring for her which is supposed to be my dad’s gift. The only Jewellery shop which we always visit is Bhima in Koramangala. One fine Friday me, paapa, sankar and dad went there. The first earring collection was very less of which we selected one. Ear rings which were available there was very different as they will pierce the ear with that itself. Those days we were used to put only studs like star or mottu where the seller girl in the shop confirmed from gold smith that the first ear ring should be of type rings and we end up buying a ring with a pearl in it. It was looking very pretty. I was sure it will look good on her. Dad wanted to buy her a chain too. Next we went to chain section and was looking for different models which are short enough so that she shall wear. We selected three of them and the final choice was left to sankar. He selected the one which was made of gold mottu. It was looking different and good. We were the last to come out of the shop. Got stuck in rain and somehow managed to reach home early.

Next purchase was paavada satta for her. I didn’t wanted to go for Kanchi pattu because we are not anyways gonna wear the paavada satta very often and it is going to be waste of money. Wanted to get a simple readymade one. We went to FM Silks in kormangala just to have a look and feel of paavada. We saw one designer paavada which was pretty costly but Sankar wanted to get that for Divya. We thought it would go very well with her and It did . Stitching that was a very big pain and we were not aware of good tailor around. Atlast went to the Maruthi nagar and got her paavada stitched. They stitched properly as expected.

Purchase for me happened in Karur when we went last time itself. I got a Pattu Saree in Sky blue color. I loved the saree. Went to Megamart and got a shirt and pant selected for Sankar as well. I wanted to get that kinda shirt to sankar. Generally maroon goes good with him.

After all the purchase packed things to travel and started Friday night. It was a good journey as we didn’t feel much difficulty in going by sleeper bus. Reached home by 4.30 AM. We had got a ring for Maama for his retirement. Sankar presented him that and they were happy. Had a chat for sometime. Mom and dad went to sleep. We were killing time to await the morning.

Saturday went just like that. Dad and sankar went to pazhamudhir choolai to buy fruits for seer. We went to Mariamman temple to pray before we leave to get her ear pierced. Night we were planning to sleep early as we need to wake by early morning 4 AM. Had a small nap for some time and I woke up exactly by 4. Everyone got ready grabbed up all the relatives on the way and then started the journey.

Before going to temple wanna finish off the breakfast. Had the same in the usual hotel and reached temple. There was already many ear piercing and mottai happening for other families. As soon as we reached we made things ready for her hair shaving. Got her head shaved in the lap of her grandpa. She didn’t even cry a bit I was very happy to see that. One old man did that very slowly and she didn’t get hurt so much. We didn’t force to take all the hair in the forehead and all. Made her bath and was getting ready for the ear piercing.

Dad gave us the seer, ear studs and chain after which the asari came to pierce the ear. I was so scared to see her ear getting pierced. Changed her dress to paavada satta. She was looking pretty in that paavada satta and mottai . The ear piercing is to be done with the same stud and as the asari was not so used to this kind of studs it was really a painful task. After marking up the exact point to be pierced, the fellow started piercing the ear, DD was screaming of pain and I couldn’t see her crying and I was crying along with her. Everyone was teasing me but I couldn’t stop crying. Atlast it was all done and it was pierced in the expected point. Good to see DD with ring. We had offered special pooja and had nice darshan and started back to Karur.

Maama wanted to go to Vekkaliyamman temple. Went there had a nice abhishegam dharshan, had lunch after that and started back to Karur. Was a tiring journey as we woke up early morning and no sleep the day before the ceremony too. Reached karur by 4 PM. Rested for some time and started packing back to Karur.

DD was very excited to see her ear pierced and was looking into the mirror and was saying “Valikkala.. Azhaga irukku” and was saying “Thaatha motta adichitanga.. mudi varum.. ”.. So innocent talk.. Luv u sweety.. Loving your sweet speech..