Cell Phone Wedding

Wedding is funny– an event where people come together to celebrate a successful sexual arrangement by dancing, singing, yelling, making silly jokes and speeches about the bride/bridegroom and their parents and about their “utopian” romantic love. In Bangladesh, weddings are series business conducted on the telephone or videoconference over the Internet between the parents/ families of the bride and the groom. In an arranged marriage, the Web camera or video are used to allow the bride and groom to see one another before the Wedding Day. Marriage can be arranged between Muslim families when the bride or the groom is living overseas by using the phones. The religious “imam” are arranged to be present at both ends of the call along with a civil official who certifies the vows. Paper works can be exchanged by fax or by mail. In Thailand, weddings are also organized using cell phone to prepare a packaged, combining scuba diving under-water or on-the-back-of an elephant ceremonies with parties and media coverage. In Canada, where I recently attended a wedding party of my niece, I saw one guest was dancing with a glass of wine in one hand and a cell phone in the other, communicating with someone far away, and not with a person with whom she was dancing. It is a funny world we live in.

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