Bride’s father invites 400 ‘special guests’

MYSORE: This wedding will have ‘special’ guests from care centers. Over 400 inmates from rehab centres, old age homes and association for the blind have been invited to bless an engineer-couple who are tying knot on August 5.
Sindhu Vittal, the bride, is a polymer science engineer and daughter of N Vittal Lad, who runs People for people, a social welfare organization in Mysore.Sindhu will get married to Rakesh More, an engineer, at Rajendra Kalyana Mantapa on Sunday.
For the guest list in his daugter’s wedding, Vittal Lad has chalked up a different plan. Instead of inviting special guests like politicians, industrialists and bureaucrats; Lad has invited the neglected and destitute people.
The father of the bride said he has invited inmates of Shakthi Dhama, Shree Seva Nikethana, Puttaveeramma, Belaku Vrudhashrama, Shanthi Dhama, Aravinda Ashrama, Bharathi Vrudhashram, Karunya Makkala Mane, JSS blind girls house and National Federation bled. Lad said he is expecting more than 400 inmates from these centres.
“I can think of fat wedding and inviting a big number of relatives and friends. But, what do I get from it,” the father asked. “These poor and neglected people have no one in their lives and they only need love. This is the reason why I have invited them to the wedding,” Vittal explained.
Transportation
Transportation arrangement has been made to pick up and drop the special guests from their place to wedding hall and back to their centres. The bride and bridegroom will also pose for photos with their guests.
Menu
All the guests at the wedding will have food in the same dining room. In the wedding the family has arranged for Chiroti, pulaos and different types of sweets to be served on plantain leaves. Vittal claimed there will be surprise gifts for the cleaners.
We wanted a different and a special wedding to share happiness. Generally we have relatives and friends for weddings. But, my family thought of inviting inmates of care centres because their relatives have deserted them.