![]() ![]() With all these, you can go for generic or specific jokes for the family. Sometimes they even ask you to create a love story. If the wedding was arranged, people even want us to write jokes about how sweet the ‘courtship’ period was, using musicals, AVs, poetry, etc. If you are writing for family members who’ll be hosting the event, you make fun of the bride and groom, and their love story. So how is the writing different for when the family is more involved? You give them Chhe-chhe-chho-four Garba jokes, and they’re happy. You can’t be as ‘whacked out’ as Punjabis who can take humour well. In Marwari weddings, the humour has to be subtle. They come to find their ‘life partners’ at Garbas and weddings. In Gujarati weddings, people think of functions as matrimonials. You take perspective and jokes from different communities, and personalise them. There are these genres of people you can always make fun of at Punjabi weddings.ĭoes a lot of humour arise from cliches associated with communities? You don’t even have to wait for the album to come out. Abhi abhi kheechte hain main WhatsApp group pe daal dunga” (Come, come, let’s take a picture now itself, I’ll put it up on a WhatsApp group). This is an uncle who has just learnt to click selfies, so throughout the wedding, he just keeps saying, “Aao ji aao ji group picture ho jaaye. ![]() Then there is always that newly-wed couple that eats from the same plate and walks together to show that they are happily married. ![]() There’s a brother-in-law who’s always grumpy one uncle who always gets angry “ki mereko poochha ni” (that I wasn’t tended well to) another type of uncle who will eat everything and still say, “Mazaa ni aaya, kuchh kami re gayi thi” (I didn’t enjoy it, there was something missing) and that one aunty who comes in wearing her own wedding lehenga. Well, if it’s a Punjabi wedding, there are six to seven types of people at every wedding. ![]()
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