Over 200 relatives wish couple on their wedding

Mangaluru: Technology enabled a family in Bantwal taluk to have a wedding ceremony that was both intimate and safe – while regulations stipulate that such events can have no more than 50 guests in attendance, a virtual ceremony ensured that 218 people witnessed the wedding of a member of the Muguli family on Thursday in Bantwal, Dakshina Kannada.
The Muguli family from Kanayana in Bantwal taluk is headed by Ahmed Ali Kambar, who has eight sisters and a brother, many of whom have left their hometown and started life elsewhere in the country or abroad.However, members of four generations of the Muguli family would not have either distance or Covid-19 preventing them from partaking of the merriment of a family member. Kambar’s niece Nafeesath Nahana, an architect, on Thursday, tied the knot with Ismail Rakhib of Chikkamagaluru, an industrialist, at Pattori in Konaje.
At the venue of the wedding, only 50 guests were present in keeping with the norms prescribed by the government to contain the spread of Covid-19. However, an initiative undertaken by 15-year-old Zoya, among the younger members of the Muguli family, resulted in relatives spread across various continents blessed the couple. A 28-minute video that had Nafeesath’s relatives in the United Arab Emirates, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia and other states of India, wishing the couple a ‘happy married life’ was the highlight of the event on Thursday.
After the video was played, a virtual meeting on Zoom, wherein Nafeesath’s relatives from the world over made their presence felt with their warmth that was expressed over the internet.