But lest one believes life, never mind February, to always go according to script, we must highlight an episode that made the news early this month. It may, on first inspection, seem like a cautionary tale. But it's more celebratory, really. A young couple in Surat plans to get married this February since last year, with both families happily on board. Then, the groom's father and the bride's mother elope a month before their children's big day.