There are people whom you think you know, and then they get married.
Nothing wrong in them doing that. Just that sometimes you are left baffled at the way in which they go about it.
I have concluded that the way in which people get married shows what they really are: It is the one time they will be their true selves.
So, a girl who you have known to wake up semi-sozzled in the middle of the day, in the middle of the week, for more times than you care to remember, decides she wants to be coy and hide behind a paan when she marries her boyfriend from school after knowing him for a decade.
Those who rebelled against everything they could think of play the perfect sons and daughters and abide by their parents’ every whim and fancy.
Friends who announced feminist leanings forever promptly replace their surnames with their husband’s.
Women who never touched a brush to their face don the pancake (and usually look hideous).
Those who have always denounced the existence of anything remotely divine sit and sweat around a fire and mouth chants they can barely pronounce, let alone understand.
So, what is it that happens?
Do they give in to parents and family? But if they rarely have done so in the past (or rarely will in the future), why do it now?
Were they never that rebellious any way? And are sticklers for the safe, beaten, anachronistic path when push comes to shove?
Do they simply want to keep the peace at home even if they are making fools of themselves on perhaps the most important day of their lives?
Guess the reasons are different in different cases but the adherence to them is what always surprises me.