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Post Wedding Preparations
The traditional Indian weddings used to be
more than a week long though people cut short the events
nowadays. There is an event for almost everything. The Indian
wedding ceremony is divided into three parts pre wedding,
wedding and post wedding. Rituals like 'Haldi', 'Mehandi' 'Sangeet"
and 'Tilak' are pre wedding rituals. There are ceremonies to
celebrate the occasion when the families visit each other before
the wedding and send costly gifts to each other along with
sweets, fruits and dry fruits. They also bring in the dress for
the bride or the bridegroom and display them to the other family
as a part of their love and honor that they are willing to
bestow upon their son or daughter in law. These pre-wedding
ceremonies are followed by the main day wedding ceremony, when
the nuptial knots of the bride and the bridegroom are tied.
There is an elaborate wedding feast for all the family and
friends that are invited.
The wedding itself is a long, stretched out
process, when all the Hindu deities are called upon and asked to
bless the new couple. The bride and the bridegroom take seven
steps around the fire, vowing devotion and love to each other
and agreeing to take care of each other in all circumstances.
There are various events to ensure laughter in the wedding
ceremony such as when the younger sister of the bride tries to
steal the shoe of her new brother-in-law and asks money as
ransom. After the wedding ceremony, there are the post wedding
functions alike 'Vidaai' or 'Doli' when the bride leaves for her
new home. This is the most emotional moment of any Indian
wedding, when the bride take leave of all her family members to
start a new life in her husband's home. Than in the bridegroom's
home, various other post wedding functions are performed like an
elaborate wedding reception is organized in the honor of the
bride where the entire family member from both sides are once
again invited. So there are various preparations to be made
after the wedding ceremony for the post wedding function. |
