One of the three kitchens of our one family
One of the two buildings in our compound and Mt. Kanchanjunga (the 3rd highest peak in the world) peeking out from the clouds
Dear Wedding Attendees---->
How one could try to schedule fun I have no idea but we are certainly going to give it a try. We have at last secured our venue and all your hotel rooms just next door so you really can stumble back into bed from total saturation of fun, dancing, meditation, or jet lag!
There are going to be two major events happening at the same time. One is the wedding (very major) and the other is the Basantika Durga Puja. Ma Basantika Durga is the goddess of love and compassion. Ma Durga has two 10-day festivals in the year one in the spring to celebrate love and compassion placed at the start of the growing season and the second in the fall to celebrate the killing of all passions placed at theharvest time.
Our days during the wedding mela (festival) will stagger with the Durga puja and the wedding festival. In-between things we will organize outings into the amazing landscape of the Sikkim Himalaya's, beautiful flora and fauna, and amazing living Buddhist heritage culture. Our celebrations will have lots of local people attending too of various sub-cultures of this region: Sikkimese, Tibetan, Nepali, Keralite, Bengali, and more! Not to mention our house now hosts about 12 foreign people from five different countries. It is really a rainbow friends house!
We are VERY much looking forward to all of you attending. In India guests are next to God, so get ready to be pampered and taken totally out of your known element. Here is the sketch of our schedule:
March 17: Krishna, Amber, and Karyna Arrive (Also Naga and Tati)
March 21: Mom and Dad Picco Arrive and Johnny and Melissa Picco
March 22: (Gwen and Sukriti Ma arrive) Evening Dinner to Start the Mela
March 23: (Duchyll, Earl, Cat, Dan, Kaveri Amma, and Erika arrive) . Evening dinner in honor of Nila Ma's birthday
March 24: The start of the Durga Puja. Afternoon-Evening is the Mehendi Party (painting ladies with Henna)
March 25: Daytime Durga Puja. Nightime is the Grand Wedding Puja (ceremony). Probabaly goes all night
March 26: Daytime--big Durga Puja. Nightime- The bride and groom separate and the ladies party together and the men party together. The bride and groom must not meet.
March 27: Daytime-- Daytime- The groom begs are the bride's door and is fed a special rice pudding). Evening---BIG PARTY with lots of local friends!
March 28: for those still standing, is the BIG Durga Puja completion
.....so for real, take melatonin and rest up because you all are going to have to will your jet lag away! check out the invitation attached at the bottom, and do write with questions. more soon
four winds
Kurukulla aka Yoli
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