New Delhi, Nov. 23 -- The Indian wedding season isn't a weekend event, it's a relay-one outfit after another, one buffet after another, one late night stacked neatly on the next-until your knees, gut, and calendar all file a polite protest. For those not born with an uber-social gene, this season is particularly challenging -the constant dressing up, the small talk, the comparisons, the unsolicited life advice, and the physical toll of late nights in beautiful but questionable footwear. And that's not counting the digestive diplomacy required to navigate chaat counters at 1am!

Here's our shaadi survival guide that you can treat as a strategic manual so you can dance, eat, and still wake up functional.

The gut is the first casualty of th...