The word Bidaai, which means farewell to a girl from her parents’ home to her in-law’s house after marriage to start a new journey of life with her life partner and the in-laws. However, this little word carries a whole plethora of unique events and happenings in her life. It’s the time when a girl departs from her father’s care, mother’s love, brother’s protection, and sister’s endless love and laughter. She lives behind everything to start a new life which is going to be full of a roller coaster ride.
Bidaai not only symbolizes departure it also welcomes a new life with lots of love, happiness, and cheerfulness. A life partner who is going to be by your side throughout life is what a girl gets after her bidaai. New family members are there to welcome her. Sister-in-law, brother-in-law, mother-in-law, and father-in-law will be a new addition to her loved one’s list. Bidaai gives a new identity to a girl who has become a graceful woman. She will be wife to her loving husband, daughter-in-law to her new parents and will add so many new relations to her happy family.
Bidaai is a door to a new world, which a girl wants to enter, but with a heavy heart, she lives her family behind. She has mixed emotions of happiness, sadness, fear, and anxiety.
One side of her heart wants to hold the hand of her life partner and explore the world with him while the other side feels heavy in leaving her aging parents behind. Sometimes she feels guilty that she is leaving her parents behind when they need her, while the other side she feels she is doing exactly what her parents wanted her to do.
Bidaai is something which can’t be avoided, but it is something which a girl never accepts whole-heartedly. The tears, the silent sobbings, and blessing all combined make bidaai a memorable incident of the whole marriage ceremony. She leaves her house where she grew up to go to her sasuraal and adjust with all the new members of her new family.
A girl is brave, who does all this and try to make everyone happy. She can never express her feelings about Bidaai; she sobs and leaves everything and everyone behind for her new life.
Whatever a girl feels at the time of her bidaai cannot be summed up and expressed in words. All her emotions and feelings can not be understood by anyone else. Only she can feel it and has to bear the pain and anxiety of her Bidaai.