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Question
- Has anybody in your family got married recently? Who?
- What was the age of the bride and the groom?
- What kind of dresses they wore?
Bride - ______
Groom - ______ - What kind of dishes were there? Name them.
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Solution
- My uncle got married recently.
- The age of the bride was 22 and the age of the groom was 25.
- Bride - A beautiful lehenga and choli with green dupatta
Groom - A classy Shervani and pagri - A variety of traditional foods like masala dosa, pulao and curries was cooked along with sweets like Gulab jamun, jalebi and Mysore Pak during the wedding.
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