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An Indian Hindu wedding procession, baraat, with the bridegroom on a horse, led by a brass band, Pushkar, Rajasthan. Baraat (Hindi: बरात, Urdu: بارات) (pronunciation ⓘ) or Varayatra (Sanskrit: वरयात्रा, romanized: Varayātrā) [1] [2] is a groom's wedding procession in the Indian subcontinent.
The bride is usually dressed up in auspicious colors. Many of the guests attending the wedding wear gold jewelry including the bride and sometimes the groom. The women are additionally adorned with henna patterns on their palms, hands, forearms, legs, and feet. Indian weddings generally tend to continue for several days and new attire is worn ...
An Indian girl holding an umbrella for a Hindu wedding. In North Indian weddings, the bride and the groom say the following words after completing the seven steps: We have taken the Seven Steps. You have become mine forever. Yes, we have become partners. I have become yours. Hereafter, I cannot live without you. Do not live without me.
The act of tying the sehra around the groom's head right before he leaves for the bride's house is called sehra bandi. Typically the groom's sisters, female cousins, Bhabhi or sister-in-law are the essential performers of sehra bandi. In the case of multiple sisters or female relatives, each woman takes a turn to perform the ritual one by one.
One of the most talked-about aspects of a wedding is the bride's dress. You know, how beautiful she looked, how the groom's eyes' lit up when he saw her... but one bride's dress has everybody talking.
This is the beginning of the marriage process. Traditionally, the parents and grandparents of the Indian Hindu bride search for a suitable alliance from their own community. On finding a prospective groom, the bride's parents invite the groom and his parents for an initial face-to-face interaction. This match-making is known as Pelli Choopulu.
On Tuesday, Metro released pictures that feature a 35-year-old councillor Ratan Lal Jat marrying a 6-year-old girl in Rajasthan, West India. The wedding is thought to have taken place on June 23 ...
A wedding guest is feeling slighted after being invited to the couple's ceremony and reception — but not the dinner held in between the two events. In a post on Reddit's "Wedding Shaming" forum ...