This Video Of A Bride Driving Her Husband To Sasuraal Is Going Viral Again. We Still Love It
Honestly, one of the saddest moments in the wedding is when the time comes for the bride to leave for her in-laws’ place – sasuraal as we call it in India. But this ritual of vidaai, when the bride is leaving for her sasuraal is attached with a ton of stereotypes. The stereotypes that are formed due to the gender roles assigned by society. For instance, she has to cry on her vidaai, a bride has to sit behind in the car with her groom and leave, the groom has to drive the bride to his place, etc. But then there are some badass brides that smash these stereotypes and nowadays even go viral for doing so.
Recently, a video of a badass bride went viral on social media for ditching the traditional vidaai ritual and driving her groom to her new sasuraal all by herself. This is an old video that went viral all over again when she took control of her vidaai and sat on the driving seat instead of in the back.
In the video, the bride is seen wearing a beautiful pink lehenga and wedding jewelry as she enters the driving seat, all set to go to her sasuraal. The groom is seen sitting next to him, explaining to her some basic functions of the car and soon they take off with the bride waving her hands at all those who attended the wedding. The bride is not only driving herself and the groom to her sasuraal but is also seen smiling and waving goodbye to her relatives. And just like that, she kicks stereotypes and gender roles in the guts.
The video also shows her family and parents smiling and happy looking at her in the driving seat as she confidently drives away. And if that is not one supportive family, then I don’t know what is. Through this very simple act of driving her husband to her sasuraal, the bride breaks gender roles and stereotypes that expect a bride to be crying on her vidaai, for the bride to be shy and modest, for letting the ‘man’ drive her around, etc. The video shows a young, confident woman who is independent and self-reliant. It shows a progressive approach to an age-long ritual.
Being a woman of today’s day and age, I genuinely aspire to be so badass if and when I get married. Wearing the wedding lehenga and heavy jewelry – is not easy, to begin with. Then why add on more weight of gender roles and stereotypes to the wedding trousseau?
