The much delayed Bachelorette Party- Part II

I must start off from where I ended last and not procastrinate any further or Mitali would be settled in her new home in DC by the time I get to this.
A quick recap- Our much envied, pompous and grandiose Goa bachelorette plan backfired and how!!!
Mansi and me decided to resign ourselves to this fact and make do with a dinner and dancing theme in Pune itself. What we had not accounted for is our emotionally unstable Bridezilla aka Mitali having her first tantrum.
I was disturbed from my sleep by a panicky Mansi who claimed Mitali had been bawling all afternoon about how the Gods hated her and how we did too as we had completely canned having any bachelorette party. She was hurt by our insensitivity to hold a ‘lame’ dinner instead of a ‘wild’ party. Oh well- now we had to do something…and soon coz the weekend was just 2 days away.
Mansi and me juggled with the idea of putting Mitali through some more emotional torture and telling her nothing of what we were upto. Circumstances and the bridezilla’s tears forced us to tell her ‘ Shut up already, we are having a party for you but you better behave surprised’.
It was Thursday evening and we had everything left to plan for. We jotted down stuff that we needed :-
1) Fur stoles
2) Tiara
3) Poster of topless guy
4) Suggestive cake (seemed impossible at the time)
5) T-shirts for all the hens
6) Tiny dress for the bride to be
7) Strippers (in Pune, good luck finding one!)
The good thing about having a wild party in Goa is we out of towners did not have to care much while asking locals for the above items. When your faced with the prospect of finding these things in your own city, it leads to quite some discomfort, as Mansi and me would soon discover.

1. Our first stop was a lingerie store where we asked the attendant for some fur stoles- We got everything from feather lingerie, some weird S & M inspired stuff to even fur underwear. Finally, the guy got us some fur stoles from the stock room. We picked up an inky blue one and Mansi decided to wrap it around like a snake and walk across to the cash counter. I could feel all eyes in the store on us. Add to that, Mansi and me just could not believe how we found the stole in the first shop itself and we giggled uncontrollably. (The fur stole eventually leaked color and everyone at the party ended up with ink blue stains on their face)

2. Our search for tiaras landed us in gaudy stores adorned with artificial jewellery. Attendants presented us ‘ugh’ly blingy crowns that just screamed ‘Miss Ulhasnagar 2009’. We rummaged and managed to find a subtle headband with a tiara mounted on it. Simple and sweet.

3. Poster of topless guy- ahhh! Before you get any weird ideas- this was just for a wicked game of ‘Pin the %#!* on the guy’. As corny as it sounds, Mansi and me thought this would be really easy given that there are Hindi film actors who pose topless for their posters 99% of the time. However, these statistics failed us on that very day and we were left to enter every shop and ask rather unabashedly for topless posters. As out dratty luck would have it, we could not even find the posters of the perennially topless actor Salman Khan. We even tried to convince sports shop owners to part with old posters hung in their showrooms. You would think people would part with ages old posters willingly but they just gave us the look of shame. Our wild goose chase ended in a shady basement store and we were rewarded with a poster of Cristiano Ronaldo. (Might I add- after all the painstaking efforts and embarrassment endured for this, we actually forgot to play this game!!!)

4. Suggestive cake- As moral citizens of this city Pune, this posed a particular challenge for Mansi and me as this item could not be requested from the normal bakeries we go to. By some stroke of luck, Mansi’s friend opened a new bakery just the same weekend we were facing a conundrum of where to get the cake from. And while Mansi mentioned her dilemma in passing, her friend promptly called her head chef and said (I quote) “ Bhaiyaji, ek naughty cake lagega. Aap bana sakte ho?” Inane as it sounds, the chef did a fabulous job with the ‘naughty’ (never fails to crack me up) cake and well I cant really mention the shape/the message/ the things we made the bride to be do. In the end, arranging for this cake really turned out to be a piece of cake, pun intended.

5. T-shirts for all the hens- This was the easiest item on the agenda as there was a very co-operative and participative guy based in SGS mall to help with this. He sportingly sat through sessions of Mitali giving him customized nicknames and messages for each person.

6. Tiny dress- Not hard at all considering the hemlines these days. We bought the perfect baby pink princess dress for Mitali.
7. Strippers- As expected, this one on the wish list just could not be fulfilled. We did have some sporting male friends (Mansi’s) drop in but they developed cold feet last minute.

Of course, what happened at the party stays with the invitees of the party. But it was indeed a memorable party (Mitali’s item numbers on Disco Dancer and Beedi deserve special mention here).
Circa 2010- Bridezilla turned out to be quite the perfect bride and must be at this moment as I write these very words, settling down into wedded bliss and domesticity.
Loads of love and happiness to Mitali and Harsh.