TURA/SHILLONG: It was a fairytale wedding for Tura’s young MP Agatha K Sangma as she and Patrick R Marak took their marriage vows at the Sacred Heart Shrine in Tura witnessed by family and friends and hundreds of well wishers who came from across the Garo Hills region to wish the happy couple on Thursday morning.
Dozens of fresh pink and white roses decked all around inside the church, Agatha, wearing a beautiful white wedding gown was led by her Mother Soradini K Sangma, widow of late PA Sangma, followed behind by elder brothers, Chief Minister Conrad k Sangma and Home Minister James Sangma as she walked down the aisle.
Bishop of Tura, Rt Rev. Andrew R Marak, gave the church service and blessed the couple.
Welcoming the couple on their arrival outside the church were Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio and his delegation of legislators from the state along with senior Assam Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. India’s soccer icon Bhaichung Bhutia arrived in Tura along with Sikkim Chief Minister Prem Singh Tamang aka P S Golay to wish the couple during the reception.
Bhaichung Bhutia is known to be a close family friend of Late PA Sangma and had inaugurated the first MP cup in Tura.
Others who met the married couple included Manipur Deputy Chief Minister Y Joy Kumar Singh and a host of government ministers and legislators from Meghalaya.
A different ‘thank you’
It was a wedding that had all the elements of grandeur and yet also included the simple things in life – the love for nature.
Agatha who has always championed the cause of protection of environment gifted the guests with the seed papers. The wedding guests were full of appreciation for the couple when each of them received a seed paper from the newlyweds as a symbolic gesture of their holy union. Some MLAs who attended the fairytale wedding confirmed that the seed papers were given to all the guests who attended the marriage which won the heart of one and all. Cards, wood carvings, lockets, etc., the usual items handed out as a thank you” were replaced by seed paper, which can be planted and grown into a tree.