​When Krishna married so many queens, why is his marriage with Tulsi alone celebrated?

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If Krishna has had so many queens who he married, why is it only that his Tulsi Shaligram Vibhaha is celebrated and his other Vibhahas are not celebrated? See, there is an important difference between Tulsi Shaligram Vibhaha and other Vibhahas of Krishna. And, that is that the other Vibhahas don’t manifest in this world in any materially tangible iconic form. That means, Shaligram is a stone that manifests in this world.
It is, of course, transcendental, but still it manifests in this world. Tulsi is manifest in this world as a plant. Now, we don’t see the same thing happening at all anywhere in say, the past times of Gopis with Krishna.
It is not that say, Rukmini is eternally manifested in some form and Krishna is manifested eternally in some form and there that union is immortalized. So, generally speaking, the celebrations that are observed, they are usually centered on some occasion where the transcendental becomes tangible in a particular way. So, Krishna’s marriages with all his many queens are definitely special.
At the same time, none of them directly give us tangible manifestations which can be worshipped and thereby immortalized. It is only in Krishna Lila that we get such eternalized manifestations, such tangible manifestations of the transcendental. So, when Vishnu took on the form of Shaligram, when Vrinda manifested as Tulsi, those two manifestations are accessible to us in this world through our senses and bringing them together at the time of Shaligram Biba is a very tangible way in which we can focus our senses and our consciousness on the eternal reality of the union of the divine couple.
That’s the, that’s one of the reasons why this particular celebration is significant and is celebrated.