Quarantine Bride

Story by- Shreya Shrivastava

Age- 25

What will you do if your wedding get postponed due to the sudden lockdown of your country? A girl’s wedding day is the most important day of her life but just one day before the wedding if it gets postpone due to COVID-19 cases and the government reacting towards it by announcing lockdown for the whole country for god knows how long, how will the going to be bride deal with it?

 I have a live and fresh example about this, as I witness my friend who shocked and heartbroken at first chose to rise above the crisis, hoping for the best, making most of the time she got at her hand, taking care of loved ones and giving them strength to be calm and patience through the entire situation. The bride doesn’t waste her time crying or walling as I expected her to cause she was just so excited to get married, but actually she make a list of certain things she wants to do in life and gets it done under the lockdown like graphic learning online, online Punjabi learning classes, Punjabi community quiz competitions, watching FRIENDS as the best pastime, reading novels and so on. She deal with the situation in hand with utmost dignity strength and grace, sure she was upset but she knows this is not the  time to be depress about something which is not in your hand.

Now after 4 months she got married in a private ceremony with limited guests as per the guidelines, but for me it was the most beautiful wedding I have ever witnessed. She inspires me to be strong whatever be the situation, inspires me to be calm and patient throughout the tough time. My Quarantine Bride is surely one in a million.