“Day one: the Mehendi. At the Khanna farmhouse in Chattarpur — the farmhouse that was not: a farm but was: a five-acre property with manicured gardens, a pool, and a: banquet lawn that could accommodate four hundred people and did, because four hundred was the: intimate version of a Khanna event. Gauri's hands were: painted. The henna was: dark, the patterns: intricate, the mehndi-wallah — a woman from Jaipur who had been flown in specifically because Khanna women had been getting: their mehndi from Jaipur since 1979 — the mehndi-wallah worked for: six hours. In the pattern, hidden among the: paisleys and the peacocks, she had hidden: my name. Tradition. The groom finds his name in the: bride's mehndi. If he can't: find it, the bride: rules the household.”