November 30 - The Great Day of Mumbai Weddings!

Daijiworld Media Network - Mumbai

Mumbai, Nov 29: We have seen a number of 'great Indian weddings', but Friday November 30 is one day that may be termed the 'great day of Indian weddings'.

For, in Mumbai alone, the day will witness a whopping 30,000 weddings!

The bustling city will be host to a rush of weddings, basically because, as per the city astrologers, there are no muhurats from February to April end in 2013. Hence, people who had planned to get married early next year have advanced their weddings to muhurats in November.

This means business has skyrocketed for wedding planners in the city. And being Mumbai, most of the weddings are high-profile and lavish. Planners are rushing around with last minute preparations, giving final touches to giant mantaps, getting the right combination of flowers and arranging an army of bodyguards and cars for the high-profile grooms.

The wedding season has also meant a boom in business for designers, caterers, decorators and all others who work together to put up a perfect show. Flowers are in great demand, and so are car/bus rentals and musical bands.

Families are in a festive mood preparing to take or receive 'baaraats' complete with band and baja. No stone is being left unturned to make the wedding day a most memorable one. Some of the more affluent families have hired expensive set of wheels like the Mercedes for the baraat, while some others have roped in artistes, dancers, musical bands, chariots and what not.

Given the rush, what has raised concerns of several Mumbaikars is the possible traffic jam with so many wedding groups and troupes crowding the streets. While some of them have cautioned the city on social networking sites to get ready for a traffic snarl, some others have taken the occasion as a festive one that will see the entire Mumbai decorated and in high spirits.

Ultimately, Friday November 30 would be one memorable day for at least those 60,000 people tying the knot!