Remember the good old days when the most obnoxious guest at an Asian wedding would be the one who complained the loudest about the food or about the brides outfit.

Once upon a time it was considered bad manners to even so much as glance at your phone over a meal in a restaurant. Now kids are watching Netflix or playing Minecraft over fine dining en famille.

Parents are equally guilty, posting food selfies on Facebook or playing Fantasy Football mid course.

And the most ghastly demonstration of this pernicious trend was at a recent wedding.

Now correct me if I am wrong or if my beliefs stem from a bygone era, but isn’t a wedding supposed to be the happiest day of a couples life, where they are ridiculously besotted with each other and happily pose for photos with extended family members?

Blah blah blah.

If a groom can’t miss one football match on the most important day of his life, well it certainly doesn’t forecast a huge amount of optimism for the future of the couple.

And yes, it’s not fait to target the men folk. Again. Women are at it too. They are more concerned with posting glamorous sari selfies on Instagram than actually engaging with the dulha and dulhan.

One bored aunty at a wedding actually decided to Skype her daughter who was holidaying in Pakistan from her iPad whilst she was waiting for the gajjar ka halwa to be served.

Whilst the media love to discuss tablet addiction in children and how Twitter is bad for your love life, how about we just try and sit at a wedding for a couple of hours and actually focus on the bride and groom?

Remember that thing called ‘people skills’- it’s all a thing of the past.