3rd time lucky: Woman travels 20km on her bike to tie the knot

TNN | Apr 6, 2020, 04:55 IST

NO ROAD TOO LONG: After two postponements, Sukeshni was driven to make it third time lucky

Yavatmal: It was a classic case of third time lucky. After two postponements, a determined woman didn’t let hurdles like the imposition of section 144 followed by the 21-day coronavirus lockdown deter her from getting married.
She went all the way and all by herself and on her two-wheeler to the wedding venue, nearly 20 kilometres from her residence, where her hubby-to-be was waiting with the vows of love to say ‘I do’ and ‘till death do us part’.
Sukeshni Krushnarao Dandaje, a resident of Sankatmochen, was engaged to Pravin Bhanarkar of village Anthargaon in Babhulgaon. The marriage was fixed for March 9. The invitation cards, too, were printed, but the ceremony could not take place, ‘courtesy’, the outbreak of the coronavirus. It was then postponed to March 31.
On both the occasions, families of both bride and groom applied for permissions, but they were rejected on the grounds of the nationwide lockdown.
With uncertainty looming, Sukeshni, who lost a father a few years ago, decided to take matters into her own hands. The ITI-educated woman, didn’t even feel the need to take her homemaker mother into confidence because she had an ace up her sleeve.
After having a lengthy and meaningful conversation with her fiance, who runs a welding workshop, the duo decided to get married as soon as possible.
On April 2, Sukeshni started her two-wheeler, covered a distance of 20 kms and reached Babhulgaon, where the groom had made all the arrangements for the wedding. She didn’t even take her mother along because she felt that it would be a risky thing to do.
Finally, in the presence of a few relatives and friends, Pravin tied the knot with Sukeshni in an atmosphere where the silence of the lockdown was broken with claps, cheers and congratulations. In no time, the wedding became the talk of the town in the village and rightly so.