thank you

so the party was a grand success and so was the opening of the 50 gift basket. "I am overwhelmed" said the birthday boy. A big thank you to all our guests and especially to weed, shalini and adit, sumi, ma, mitul, arti n, mummy, aman, priya, kots... for contributing to the making the 50 gifts happen.
Aman - you were a discovery! your music was the life of the party. We had people raving about it till this evening about it!
everybody : watch this space for the fab photos taken by dev and deep..

program details

so the program details as they stand confirmed now are as follows :
27.05.08
8:00 p.m. - Mainland China (where else!), Senapati Bapat road, Pune
31.05.08
8:30 p.m. - Paradise towers Lawns.

out of town arrivals are staggered between today and the rest of the week till Saturday afternoon.
The birthday boy will be told about this blog only on the 31 st ... so folks mums the word till then!

ready to go..

so we are all set.. caterer has been organize, the cooking place designated, the decor chosen, the invites done, the valets organised, the box is getting done, should start getting packed this weekend. And yes, my leave sanctioned.

The family starts arriving on Monday..

There is excitment in the air...

So. Tia and I went and got the baskets to put the gifts in... We got two huge wicker baskets which will be spray painted gold and decorated with white ribbons.
Tomorrow I'll be spraying painting them. I've no idea what to expect. If they turn out bad we'll just have to paint over the spray paint.
It will definitely be done by early next week.

Almost there!!!

ACK! Nine days to go! We're pretty much set. Kind of. Sort of. The developments are..

1. The caterer has changed. We're now going with Oh Calcutta! For those of you who don't know, it is owned by the same people who own Mainland China. It's Bengali cuisine...and the cuisine from Calcutta as it was in the British era. They've just taken over the Bombay Brasserie above the Mainland China on Dhole Patil Road, so...that's the food.

2. The venue is definitely on the building lawn. We were a little iffy because the caterers need space to cook etc. But Oh Calcutta! is ok with the place so venue is done.

3. Invites are happening thick and fast. Number of guests look to be between 70-100.

4. People start arriving from Kolkata/New York/Mumbai from Monday.

Will be updating very soon!

What a well-groomed Birthday Boy!

We've selected a bee-yoo-tee-fool crew-neck sweater from Hackett, some pretty bedlinen from Laura Ashley and the moisturiser he so loves.
Yes, my dad really does use Ultra Smooth Coco De Mer from Molton Brown.

And then teases me for primping too much! HMPH!

And another...

Jasdeep(nephew of the Birthday Boy) is giving his esteemed uncle a carton of Classic Regular cigarettes!