Wedding card showing IIT credentials of bride, groom goes viral
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In India, wedding cards form an integral part of wedding preparations. Of late, a photograph of a wedding invitation card that mentions the college credentials of the bride and groom has gone viral.
On Tuesday, an X user @mister_whistler shared a picture of a now-viral wedding card that mentioned that the groom Piyush Bajpai is from IIT Bombay and the bride Mamta Mishra is from IIT Delhi.
It’s unclear if the card is from a real wedding or made as a prank, but it has prompted a discussion about how Indians are obsessed with good colleges such as IIMs and IITs.
An X user commented, “Disappointed that they didn’t have their major, salary, or LinkedIn profile mentioned in that invite.”
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Another person wrote, “A few decades ago, when degrees were hard to get, mentioning BSc, BCom, etc., was the norm. I have seen an invite where the last name of one side of the family was not mentioned (‘coz different caste). Have accepted the anti-social tag from the family than attend most weddings that feel claustrophobic – in between the show for labels and identities, there is no breathing space left anymore.”
Earlier this year, the wedding card of Pradeep Kaliramana, a resident of Bushan village in Haryana raked in likes after he and his wife used their wedding invitations to express solidarity with the farmer’s movement. A message on the invitation card read: “Jang abhi jaari hai, MSP ki baari hai (The battle is still on, now the fight is for MSP)”.
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Apart from this, the invitation card also has other messages like “Jai Jawan, Jai Kishan” (Hail the soldier and the farmer!). It also carries a tractor symbol with a banner that reads: “No Farmers, No Food”.
