Not even selfies at Daham's wedding ... no politicians either!

Not even selfies at Daham's wedding ...

no politicians either!

President Maithripala's son, Daham Sirisena celebrated his wedding at Hotel Hilton, Colombo last Thursday almost exclusively as a private function. Though bookings were made to have the wedding on a grand scale at Shangri-La Hotel; with the closure of the hotel after the bomb blast there, bookings for the wedding were cancelled. Unfortunately, it was not possible to make this an occasion which the whole country would
talk about as in the case of Mahinda's son Chichi's wedding because most people pointed out that in a background where a tragic atmosphere was created with a large number of people passing away ... conducting the wedding of President's son was something not conducive on a cultural angle as well as on a moral level.  

However, as it was understood that securing an auspicious time this year once more was a problem -- the wedding was conducted in a simple manner with only intimate friends on both sides gracing the occasion. Invitation cards on the other hand were delivered after deleting the word 'Shangri-La' and instead the word 'Hilton' being inserted. 

On the instance of sending invitation cards, Maithri and members of the family have resolved not to invite any politician whatsoever and when MP Mr. Duminda Dissanayaka realised that cards were issued to those who were known; he had queried the reason for it. At least even Ranil or Mahinda were not on the invitees' list. 

All invitees were admitted to the hotel after a thorough scrutiny. Noody was permitted to bring in mobile phones to the wedding hall. Therefore, no selfie photos which usually are clicked at weddings were observed at this function as such. Maithri has not even called a team of his press cameramen unit either and it is because of the belief that photographs would be published across them. All these photographs incidentally were captured by wedding cameramen. As a result, upto now not a single photograph of the wedding has been released to the public. 

Poruwa customs of the wedding were expected to be conducted at nine thirty five in the morning. As soon as poruwa procedures were over, Maithri was not to be seen there. He had in fact left the place and had gone to sign as witness of another wedding function. Bringing a note of surprise to everybody, the President had then left to Borella where a bishops' conference was to be held. Even by that time, his son's wedding function was in progress under strong security at Hilton hotel premises. It later came to be known from media reports that there was traffic congestion on the roads as a result. 

Daham was married to the daughter of Elcardo Holdings. At the time Daham was following his studies, a romance which was in progress at that time finally culminated in this fashion. 

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