1.   A heavy monsoon shower began, wetting us through, and we both started to laugh.

2.   The monsoon showers, a daily occurrence in September, held off until the ceremony was drawing to a close.

3.   But the bulk of the tens of thousands of tourists are happy to don raincoats and hold umbrellas and get drenched by the monsoon showers.

4.   The first monsoon showers were expected to hit the southern state of Kerala on Monday.

5.   Property and crops worth millions of dollars have been damaged or destroyed in the fury of the monsoon showers which trigger floods almost every year.