After reading the heading, you will surely feel that marriage contract is not a new thing anymore, and what kind of unique marriage contract is being talked about here, then you will get the answer till the end of the article…
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There was a time when boys and girls got married without seeing or knowing each other, just respecting the wishes of their elders. Gradually there was a change, in which the parents started deciding the marriage after knowing the wishes of their children and now in today’s time the children are getting the opportunity to choose their life partner… In such a case, it is not surprising if any kind of marriage contract is made between husband and wife. Right? But today we are going to talk about a marriage contract that has become a reason for discussion among people and social media. The funny thing is that the video of the bride and groom signing the contract is also going viral. The controversial contract contains a hilarious list of do’s and don’ts for the bride and groom after marriage and the most important top most condition of the contract is one pizza per month… I know you must have read this condition by now. Or is it finally a pizza every month? So for your information this bet is for 24 year old bride Shanti Prasad… because Shanti loves pizza a lot and is considered by her friends and husband to be a pizza freak and can eat as much pizza as she wants, anytime, anywhere. Shanti got married to her lover Mintu Rai in Guwahati in a traditional manner and both hail from Assam.
Shanti and Mintu met in commerce class five years ago. Gradually this recognition turned into friendship and friendship turned into love… Mintu and Shanti went on a date for the first time in February, 2018 and talking about that date Mintu says ‘We bunked our last lecture and went to a pizza outlet, at that time I realized that Shanti loves pizza and was always talking about pizza so I decided to take her on a pizza date. Then we used to go out for pizza when we went on dates, but when you get too much of anything, you get tired of it and the same thing happened to me and I got tired of pizza. One day I told Shanti that I like pizza, but not so much that I can eat it every day…’
After reading this story, you might think that this is the end of the love story… but it is not. Both gave a call to accept each other with their likes and dislikes in real life and they did it. Taking the matter into her own hands, Shanti says that ‘Mintu always asked me how many more pizzas will I eat? Let’s try some other food… We have never had a fight over food (Atilist has never! Says Shanti with a smile), but he always complains to his friends that he doesn’t feel like it with me. In old age he has to eat pizza and because of that he is tormented. Both Pizza and Mintu were always the subject of jokes in our circle of friends.’
Raghav, Mintu and Shanti’s common friend and the brain behind this unique marriage contract, says, ‘Shanti likes Mintu more than pizza, but I feel like if she gets free time, she would be thinking about pizza even in her sleep. We have been together since 2017 and our friendship is very close. Their love blossomed right before our eyes, which is why we wanted to create something different and memorable on their wedding day. All the friends brainstormed and made a list of eight important points that bind the two together, but Shanti being a pizza freak among them all, we decided to put this condition at the top of the marriage contract.’
In the contract, apart from pizza, Mintu should cook breakfast for Shanti every Sunday, every fortnight he should take Shanti shopping and he can go to night parties only when he is with his wife, from Shanti’s pizza consumption to going to the gym everyday, Mintu looks more beautiful in Shanti saree. It seems that conditions like wearing a saree every day were included.
This small joke that started between friends quickly became a cause of discussion on social media. The wedding photography company also posted the video of this unique contract on social media and made it more viral. So far, crores of people have watched this video and showered likes and comments on it.
‘We were busy with our wedding preparations and subsequent work, so we came to know after three-four days that this video has gone viral. We had no idea that this video would become so viral. Even today I am really happy when people ask about the video. We have framed this contract so that it can be hung on the wall of the house, but I doubt that Shanti will be able to abide by the terms of the contract for long…’ adds Raghav.
Shanti does not take these conditions seriously, has been complaining of weight gain for some time now, but still cannot control her pizza eating habit. Somehow this fear of Mintu and her friends is true, because the two have only been married for two weeks and so far Shanti has only eaten pizza twice!
