My Big Fat Indian Wedding

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We held our traditional wedding in India a couple of weeks ago. Here are a couple of pictures. We had functions for 5 days, each one got progressively bigger and more elaborate until the wedding day.

Overall it took 2 years to plan everything, we had 4 functions in the uk and 5 in India,

My ride (with my cousin next to me)
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The procession going to the venue, this takes about 1 hour and involves my side of the family walking there with a band playing (the guys in orange) and dancing on the street with fireworks. I am riding the elephant at this point.
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The entrance to the venue (after everyone arrived)
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The venue, we had around 1000 guests.
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The band
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The wedding mandap (where the wedding takes place), not many people really watch the wedding most just eat and mingle
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Some hand thing as part of the wedding
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Immediate family having dinner
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We are now on our honeymoon and will travel around Thailand, Bali, Malaysia, Singapore and India until the second week of Feb.
Now I am just bragging but here is our hotel room in Bangkok, 3000 sq, with 4 balconies, kitchen, 2 bathrooms and 3 bedrooms (I took a couple of friend with us on the first week of our honeymoon)
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Pen66 said:
Looks a grand wedding, congratulations.

Why so many functions though?
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Thats just how Indian weddings are, we had one wedding in the uk as 2 member of our family are very ill and would not make it out to India for the wedding.

I had a lot of friends fly in from Czech Republic and all over the world so we really had a fantastic time. Just image having 30 of your closest friends stay in the same Hotel as you and party every night for a week.
 
Epic wedding :D

Must have cost a fair whack though :eek:


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Is the wife decorated/painted like that all over ? :o

And more importantly is it edible :D
 
Congrats!
India looks grand, well, not majorly different to Pakistan where I was hired to shoot a wedding in December :p

The video camera with the crane equipment looks familiar, the guy who did the videoing for the Pakistan one told me the crane he used was one of a kind too, the lies!!!

Looks great though, and the one in blue ¬_¬

The mile long walk must have been something, the walk in the one I shot wasn't quite as long but the heat made it hard work!

This was the horsey carriage:
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I was expecting an Elephant at first lol, always wanted to touch an Elephant :o
 
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Deep said:
Where abouts in India was your wedding?

Also, 1 in blue in the 2nd picture ;)
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Near Ahmedabad
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She is in her late late 30's and has 2 kids :)


Tefal said:
Epic wedding :D

Must have cost a fair whack though :eek:
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Sadly yes, we paid of everyones hotels and food for over a week. I don't know the total yet but it enough a couple of 500 BHP cars:eek:

Tefal said:
Is the wife decorated/painted like that all over ? :o

And more importantly is it edible :D
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No just arms and legs, but we went to a Fish spa in Thailand and they found it to be very edible.
 
Looks good.

The hotel in Bangkok - that Lebua @ State Tower? Was there a few weeks ago - great food in the restaurant upstairs ;)

Where you planning on going in Malaysia? Guess the West coast as in the east most things are closed
 
Ironic Namesake said:
Looks good.

The hotel in Bangkok - that Lebua @ State Tower? Was there a few weeks ago - great food in the restaurant upstairs ;)

Where you planning on going in Malaysia? Guess the West coast as in the east most things are closed
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Yep its the Lebua, very nice hotel but I am back in Bangkok today and staying in the Hansar which only opened around a week ago. Its a lot nicer.

I was in KL for4 nights ( stayed in the mandarin oriental) over new years eve. I loved the city. We went to some club called Zoop (or something like that). The only thing I was not happy about is that we paid 500 pounds for a table in the mandarin for new years eve which turned out to be a little bit of a let down.

Singapore was also very nice, my wife now wants to move out there lol.

We are off to Chiang Rai tomorrow.
 
Dr House said:
Yep its the Lebua, very nice hotel but I am back in Bangkok today and staying in the Hansar which only opened around a week ago. Its a lot nicer.

I was in KL for4 nights ( stayed in the mandarin oriental) over new years eve. I loved the city. We went to some club called Zoop (or something like that). The only thing I was not happy about is that we paid 500 pounds for a table in the mandarin for new years eve which turned out to be a little bit of a let down.

Singapore was also very nice, my wife now wants to move out there lol.

We are off to Chiang Rai tomorrow.
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Yeah thought so, recognised it from the balcony :p

Mandarin Oriental is a nice hotel - although didn't stay there last time because of the building work outside, not sure if its finished yet :p The club you mention is probably Zouk , not too far walking distance from your hotel.

I wouldn't like to move to Singapore, living is too expensive compared to KL and surrounding areas :p NYE fireworks in the center looked good, I stayed at home and watched another display from my apartment :D
 
Wow, that's an impressive wedding! It certainly looks like a day everyone will never forget. Congratulations :)

Was it an arranged wedding or did you pick her yourself?
 
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