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SOUTH INDIAN WEDDING PALLAKI PLUS

Your real duties, though, lie before and after the whole wedding affair. "Yes, hi, hope you're enjoying the food!"

South Indian weddings generally have a meal thing where the ones closest to the bride and the groom are supposed to go to each person and make courteous small talk. I am assuming that this family will have the sense to put more people on this job, rather than just letting you deal with it solo. When people give gifts to the couple, you will be responsible for stowing it away. Maybe you'd be expected to introduce yourself and inform them that she's on her way. She's also expected to step in for the bride when there's a giant influx of people which makes it impossible for the bride to personally greet everyone all of a sudden.

When the bride is being dressed up, when she's in the marriage hall, when they're doing the rituals, and so on - be there with her and help.

Here's a not-all-inclusive-list of duties: Seriously though, what typically happens is, she's expected to be next to the bride at all times. In a south Indian wedding, typically, the maid of honour gets dragged everywhere to look for "suitable alliances" for her if she happens to be single. Then again he does yell at his parents to back off when they start hating on her during their weekly Skype sessions so there is that - but he won't say "NO weekly Skype sessions with me and my girlfriend, wtf are you crazy" so there's that too. The thing that freaks me out is his insistence against eloping or otherwise doing shit "against" his parents. Yeah, her fiance is pretty cool, as far as I know him, which is the two years she's been dating him.

SOUTH INDIAN WEDDING PALLAKI PLUS

It's not easy for me to ask my friend what she expects for a variety of reasons (she's too shy/introverted to say I'm too awkward to properly ask despite us being very good friends we are not good at talking about this stuff we currently live far away from one another so no face-to-face possible which makes all this much more difficult, plus I feel like I should already know this shit because I am a person of Indian origin but I fucking don't and am too embarrassed to admit this directly). Haha, yeah, it's not an official title, that's why I put it in quotes, which is exactly how the bride said it to me.