On Monday, Farrukhnagar resident Rao Mansingh Yadav's son Jagdish paid Rs 1, 30, 000 for a 12-minute helicopter ride to his bride's home, barely 20-km away in Kapashera. And the entire airborne exercise was designed to impress the new in-laws.
Accompanied by his brother, brother-in-law and uncle, Jagdish boarded a Jet Ranger helicopter on his way to marry Nitu of Kapasahera village. What followed was a bit of an anti-climax though.
Jagdish's chopper was denied permission to land at the marriage venue by the air traffic controller (ATC) and had to instead make a tame touchdown at the domestic airport from where the groom took a Mercedes to reach his wedding venue.
But for Jagdish's neighbours and friends at Farrukhnagar, from where the chopper took off, it was an occasion to remember. Several hundred people turned up to wish the groom and it was celebration time in the village.
Though a little disappointed that his son was denied the pleasure of landing in style at the wedding venue, Jagdish's father Mansingh Yadav nevertheless managed to laugh off the incident. "Now I can tease my son's father-in-law throughout my life about the fact that there is no helipad in his village, which I could make in my locality," he said, a smile creasing his face.
Meanwhile, the bride's father Anil Yadav, a local businessman, said he had made every effort to ensure that his son-in-law landed directly at the wedding venue. "We had applied for all official clearances and got them except that of the ATCs. We had even started to construct a temporary helipad in a nearby farmhouse, but had to scrap the plan," Anil said.
To make sure that the bride's family did not feel cheated of the entire experience, Mansingh had the helicopter fly over the wedding venue. Interestingly, the helicopter was hired for only a one way trip and hence the bride is going to make her way back to her in-law's place in the black Merc on Monday night.
Explaining why he did not book the chopper for the return journey as well, Mansingh, a farmer, said, "We have to take the bride home at night as per our tradition and choppers are not allowed to fly then. Secondly, it would have cost us a lot to keep the chopper waiting for hours. I spent so much because I love my son very much. People who have enough money, spend it. I thought of this so that everyone in my village and locality would remember it forever."
Meanwhile, Mansingh has others thinking alike. This is not the first time that a family has hired a chopper to for a wedding in Gurgaon. Another family in Ullahwas had also taken wings to celebrate a wedding.
Said Wing Commander Pragat Singh, who piloted Jagdish's chopper, "This marriage season alone, I have ferried 15 grooms and they are from similar villages. The majority of them were from Punjab and NCR of Delhi."
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