Gopal and Rukmani's wedding 1933

I unearthed an invitation for the wedding of Shri Gopal and Rukmani, my parents, which was in 1933. According to my mother, the wedding was a five day affair. One day, the bridegroom was taken in procession and on another, the bride was taken out in a procession, wearing a male garb. From Phaetons to horse drawn coaches to buses and pleasure cars, the bridegroom's party members were free to use any of these means of transport to reach the bride's place. In accordance with those times, the bride and bridegroom did not meet each other till the actual marriage ceremonies began. In the present case, the bride was all of 13 years old and the bridegroom nearly 19 years old. The bride had studied up to 8th class while the bridegroom had passed his high school and was denied further permission to study. Both my parents shared a very happy marriage which lasted 69 years. Father died in 2002 while my mother, God bless her, is still alive, a sprightly 90 years. Now, look at the invitation itself. It was fashionable then, as it is now, to print an english version of the invitation on one side while the main pages were in highly sanskritised tamil. The names of the bride and the bridegroom are not visible in the english version since a tape used to keep the page together has stuck so well. Now look at the invitation. I wonder how many invitation cards from 1933 or earlier have so far survived!