Good-old-freind's wedding!

The girl in the sketch was one of my best buddies during my college years. I had my friends (we were a group of four friends--2 girls and 2 boys--one of them is her). She got married last year. We were the best of friends. Infact some thought that we were a couple. We had good but not so great moments during our college days. We used to bunk lectures and sit in the college canteens. Our college had the biggest campus in the city and that was the only biggest thing we thought our college had ;). There were 5 colleges in our campus. So there were 2 canteens and 1 open cafeteria (always crowded with chicks and dudes). Even we, the fantastic 4, used sit there and discuss how boring the lectures were and worst, how to celebrate our next friendshipday, rose day, chocolate day, denim day...our college was popular mostly for such days where even people from other colleges in the city used to throng in our campus just to celebrate those weird days. They thought that ours was the only college where they can have any kind of freedom....yea any kind of (put in whatever weird thing you can think of). This brought down the reputaion of our college a little bit down. But we still spent our best of our time in here. This guy in the sketch knew my friend and they both used to hang out often after college. She told me that he had proposed to her after he left school and was in college. She said yes to him and since then they both are with each other. I and my other 2 friends used to crack jokes on him on the way he was with my friend. She used to get so angry when she would hear us talking crap about him. She loved her so much. It was only after college that we stopped pulling her leg.

This sketch was made by me as a gift to her & her husband. It took me 7 days to complete this sketch. I devoted atlest 2 hrs per day to complete it as I also had my studies to be done.

My friends were thinking of the usual things to gift her. But I didn't like their idea as she was my best buddy and that is why the gift had to be unique in itself. So I thought that I should use my long lost talent which I had left far away after I finished my school.

Actually we lost contact after our college. She didn't even call or message me or any of our friends. I still wonder why there was such a miscommunication between all of us. I had never even asked her about it. We didn't even have each other's numbers. So one fine day I decided to call her up (I got her number from the telephone directory on the internet as I knew her last name). I called her up I was shocked to hear that she got engaged with him, though we friends knew she was going to marry him and nobody else. But what was surprising that she never called us up at her engagement and as I had called her up I and my rest of the friends got invited to her wedding. We certainly didn't wish to go for her wedding as she lost contact with all of us. But for old friendship's sake we had to make a move. So one day I and one of our friend decided to meet her before her marriage. I took a photograph of her engagment and took it home saying "I will make this photograph a bigger one, frame it and gift it to you". She happily let me take that photograph. I converted that snap to a sketch, framed it and was ready to gift her on her wedding day.

Then we (3 guys and 2 gals) arrived on her wedding day. Nobody was known to us in the wedding. We went on the stage where the couple was standing. She was surprised and happy to see us all together. We all congratulated her and her her husband. I then gifted her the sketch which was packed. She diligently unpacked the frame and was surprised to see it. She knew in the back of her mind that I was good at drawing. So she looked at me and thanked a lot. I didn't say anything to her and just smiled at her. The photographer clicked us all and we left the stage. She then told us to have dinner before leaving and his husband promised me that we would all meet somewhere after some days. Then we had our dinner and we left offering her a final bye.

I am still waiting for that promise to be fulfilled because I still want to ask her why didn't we hang around even after college.