However, no matter how busy we are with work, whenever there’s a special occasion like family gatherings or weddings, we respect our work-life balance and don’t over do it by bringing work to these functions.
Well, that’s how most of us prefer to do it, but not this one bride in India.
The poor bride actually brought work along to do - on her wedding day!
Too busy to get married
Indian news portal Times of India published a video showing the bride occupied with her laptop and smartphone while she was sitting on the dais at her very own wedding reception.
In the 13-second video, the bride can be seen making a phone call with her laptop on her lap, oblivious to her surrounding, including the presence of the groom who joined her on the dais.
The video was presumably taken by one of the attendees at the wedding, and it was uploaded on to Twitter by user @dineshjoshi70.
The video has since gone viral, having been viewed more than 74,000 times.
You can check it out below:
If you think you are under work pressure then watch this... via WA @hvgoenka pic.twitter.com/odbFTxNofh
— Dinesh Joshi. (@dineshjoshi70) July 3, 2020
If being forced to work on your own wedding day wasn't bad enough, many netizens criticised the bride for not paying attention at her own wedding:
Typical Indian attitude towards to professional work...
— Anil P Joseph (@Anil4Joseph) July 3, 2020
This is more to impress the immediate & extended social circle
High time we call out such fake being busy/highly committed imagery
If I were her Boss, I'll resign from job immediately! ?
— Ingocha Singh Ningthoujam (@ISningthoujam) July 3, 2020
It's not work pressure, if social media pressure, to give live updates of whts happening around. Hav personally seen brides uploading wedding pics right from the mandap or asking frnds/relatives to do so!!
— Jim Kim (@jimkimmit) July 3, 2020
There were some who defended the bride, saying that she might not even be working:married to the company
— deshpremi (@deshpre81559523) July 6, 2020
I wonder, why most of the people commenting here considering her to work for office? How about this, may be she is looking for a contact in her emails for some of her marriage arrangements. Best wishes for the couple.
— Rajesh SINDHU (@sindhuraje) July 3, 2020
Might be there is chance, her PhD supervisor called her and asked to make the corrections of the submitted article which he forgot earlier and today is the last day for the submission. #Scholar #PhD #womenscientist
— Dr. Sameer K. Varma (@sameervarma22) July 7, 2020
That could be some of her close family members calling her as they couldn't be with her.
— Pretheesh Thomas (@_pretheesh) July 7, 2020
That could be some of her close family members calling her as they couldn't be with her.
— Pretheesh Thomas (@_pretheesh) July 7, 2020
It's a video conferencing with friends on wedding day not working for office don't misguide people
— rajkumar7grk (@rajkumarooo) July 7, 2020
Whatever the case may be, we hope the bride and the groom had an amazing wedding.
And to you guys out there, just remember to leave your work laptop and work phones at home during your wedding day.