Here is one homily you will hear unfailingly: On your wedding day, act shy and demure. Never mind if you don't know what that means.
Here are some others: Take dainty steps. Keep the smile on your face. Don't let your guard down. You don't want Chachiji from the in-laws' side to feel you weren't pleased to meet her, would you?
You will that everyone who was happy to give you space and let you be, suddenly decides that you cannot be left alone.
There will be people everywhere you go. Guests who want to talk to you about your honeymoon plans or, better still, about your fiancé throwing up all over their Persian carpet when he was two years old.
All you want to do at this point is sit down and put up those aching feet. Or be gripped by a sudden desire to grab a smoke even if you were, till then, a card-carrying anti-tobacco campaigner.
What do you do?
Refrain from all and any thoughts of grabbing your soon-to-be spouse and making for the nearest registrar's office. There is just no escape!
Weddings are times of revelry.
They are also the time of discovery: That gorgeous wedding jewellery will feel like a mill around your neck, and that wedding sari wil feel like a ten-ton weight around your body.
Welcome to the world of dressing up.
If you are wearing a ghagra-choli, you will find the ghagra will pull at the waist and threaten to crash towards your feet in an unholy pile.
The dupatta, for its part, will compete weight-wise, making it difficult to keep your head covered -- a requisite in all weddings in north India.
You want to pull the dupatta back and risk looking undemure.
What do you do?
Grin. Bear it. Keep saying, only a few more hours. Then you can toss the wedding sari/ ghagra-choli, into your cupboard and not look at it for as long as you don't want to look at it.
While we are talking of dressing up, imagine getting all dressed up at those really unearthly hours.
The all-important mahurat dictates the length of your sleep or the lack of it.
With the beautician hurrying in to achieve that diva look, everyone will pay scant heed to your need to tuck in for a few more hours.
What do you do?
Be smart. Even though you are excited and all that, make sure you get plenty of rest in the days leading up to the wedding. You will have to run around, but plan your time well so that you will not need to do any last-minute chores.