These are photos from my cousin’s wedding - I said I’d link to ‘em so here they are.
Hope you like ‘em!
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Ah, there they are! Wow, what vibrant colors…
Haha, is the only picture of you up here the one of your hand?
Of course that isn’t my hand. It’s not wearing a hat.
I guess you’re right, it couldn’t possibly be yours. That hand doesn’t have a 5 o’clock shadow.
Hahahahahaha!!!
Oh how beautiful!! You take such awesome photos. *Is jealous* It looks like it was a most spectacular wedding.
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omg so much paan
I want one!
I have yet to parttake in my sisters wedding (god knows when) and Usher in the relatives and the INLAWS! (thunder clap and screams) You have fun taking photos but i have to play the bloody (emphiesis on bloody) bouncer out front of recption.={
Those are really amazing pictures, and it looks like it was a beautiful wedding.
Ananth, those are beautiful.
I’m glad you like them, man! :D
Thanks alot for sharing the photos. they are beautiful.
There’s nothing as colorful as a Indian wedding.
I really like the Mendhi (do you spell it like that?) on the hands.
So cool! What a beautiful culture and what an awesome experience to be part of. The pictures are wicked cool. How long does it take to paint the hands like that?
Actually, shockingly, those guys are really good. I thought I’d have to sit still for an hour, but … 5 minutes? It blew my mind. Then you have to let it sit on your hands for a couple of hours, but the process of getting the design was very, very fast.
Hey Ananth! Love the pics. Reminds me of my friend Vishal’s wedding in India that I attended. That was the craziest wedding I’ve ever seen. I’ll have to show you my hands all Hennaed up and I even wore some traditional dresses too! Thanks for sharing the pics!!!
TIFFANY, hey! :D Long time no see! Hahaha, Indian weddings are pretty crazy - Indians really like to dance have a good time! Glad you liked the pics, I’d love to see yours!
So that’s the traditional wedding style? It looks very elegant! These are from India correct? I watched a video in Business class about outsourcing and how it is affecting India, so just out of curiousity: do you feel like it’s a good or bad thing?
Yes, India! And as for outsourcing, I think it’s a good thing, in the long run. In the short run there are growing pains, but in the long run things will grow. India is joining the global market, and that means many aspects of the culture are going to have to adjust - but ultimately, I don’t think it’s going to be at the expense of culture. Indians immigrate here and stick with their culture - if they can do it in a foreign land, they can certainly do it back home.
And besides, to me, understanding your own culture in a global context has always been an advantage. You see the value of it, and you also see the value of an expanded understanding and acceptance of the rest of the world. It breeds open-mindedness. .
Wow, now i see what a good education, and a rich family gets you, because you can see where the leagues arn’t supposed to converge. Gives hope to the rest of us geeks and nerds.
If I ever get married, I think I’d like an Indian wedding. They seem so much cooler than western-style weddings.
Haha, if you e-mail me back remind me to talk about this in it.
After perusing all of the photos on Flickr I can only imagine the cost associated. Wow.
I can’t say enough how beautiful most of those photos are. And the bride’s not too bad either. ;)
Indian weddings can be pretty opulent, but for parents over there it’s one of the Big Things that they wait their whole lives to be able to do. My cousin got a nice one, but there are some weddings over there that will blow your mind.
Wow, so colorful! The bride is beautiful. Aww, and your mom is pretty =)
Haha, I’ll let my mom know you said so. <3
The photos are absolutely amazing. That first photo has so much color, and she looks so pretty!
Awesome pics!
But I must clarify: an ‘Indian’ wedding is when the wedding is held in the egistrar’s office. This is a Hindu wedding. Not neccessarily Indian.
Jai Bharat!
*Registrar’s
Man, you’re right - that is embarrassing for me. Apologies!
Beautiful wedding…. though I can’t help but think of Seinfeld when I see it :)
I loved the pictures. I’m really curious as to what’s happening in them. Is there a website I can use to learn about a traditional Indian Wedding? Also, what does “-diddi” mean?
Didi means sister! The bride was technically my cousin, but you just call your cousins brothers and sisters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_wedding is a decent place to start, but some of what it says is incorrect - there are a lot of “love” weddings nowadays as well.
Wow… that’s a rather grand wedding. Quite interesting.
Oh it’s so beautiful, The pictures are amazing. I do like the mehndi and your cousins picture the best!!!
thank u ananth for putting in mehndi i wikied it and found out what it was i now i know just wanted to thank u and great pics, i would go there but im much to picky of a eater :-( lol
And all the untouchables silently wept.
Are you trying to be an asshole? Thanks for the internet armchair social commentary.
The day you do something to help “untouchables” is the day you can talk, but in the meantime leave it up to those of us who are actually doing something.
Your argument against my critical responses would have slightly more weight my friend if in fact I was not homeless and currently typing this on a public library after spending a day begging people like you for charity so I can enjoy some relative (if not minor) feeling that I am in fact still considered a human being by the rest of society. Just food for thought.
Sorry to hear you’re homeless.
Whether your comment is food for thought is up to whoever reads it. However, the analogy implied by your string of comments is incorrect. Untouchables are not the same as homeless people.
Untouchables are born into the lowest caste of society. They aren’t necessarily homeless - they get employed as sweepers, washers, and so on. Unlike the homeless (and I draw the comparison to Untouchables loosely, because it really is a bad analogy) in America and other parts of the world, there is really very little possibility for upward mobility in their own lifetime.
The one thing I will say from personal experience is this: Employment for Untouchables often means that their children get money for school - books, clothes, school supplies, whatever they need to get a proper education. Untouchables were born into an inferiority complex, and yet they believe that they can help their children rise above it. To me, that is food for thought.
those are very beautiful pictures. i think u have great talent with camerz.
What amazing pictures, especially the third! It must have been a grand wedding to attend. Best wishes to your cousin!
On the thired day of comments Anath said to me….
Nothing.
(Yes i’m bored)
The first picture of the bride, oddly enough, reminds me of a Pharoess, or … Egyptian Queen, whatever. >.>
’cause of the pretty gold headress sorta thing, and the painted lips.
PRETTY!
Also, in the fourth and fifth pictures, is the bride just lurking off camera, or something? >.>
An’ izzat a dance in the seventh picture?
Woop, I finally understand that picture after looking through the album. ‘S really pretty! :D But . . . er, not to be rude or anything, but what -is- with the huge nose ring? O_o;
Reflective golden chairs for the win!
It’s just part of the wedding regalia … often times, the nose rings are fake. My cousin definitely doesn’t have a pierced nose. XD
And naw, not rude at all!
The painted hands look sweet too. Are they just on the palms and going over where the design calls for it?
Having a pierced nose with -that- huge of a nose ring looks rather painful :P Especially since it seems chained to a piercing on her ear in the reflective chair picture.
“WARNING! Not safe for babies” =x
Hahaha, genereally speaking a ring that big is only worn at the wedding. After that, a small stud will do … although these days, piercing the nose isn’t really mandatory or anything - just depends on how traditional you want to be.
The designs go from palm to the back of the had - I only got my palm done. On the bride, it gets done from elbow to fingertip and from knee to toe! It’s quite incredible - also, very time-consuming. XD
Not to sound ethnocentric or anything (yay for anthro-major!) but was it an arranged marriage? for everyone out there that is thinking of those feudal time FORCED marriages, that’s not what i mean.
It was sort of an arranged marriage? These days what happens is that the family will seek out a suitable boy or girl, and then their son or daughter gets to have a period where they get to know each other. Phonecalls, visits, and so on. If both people like the other, then it’s time for wedding bells. XD
Arranged marriages are not what they used to be two decades ago, and the prevalence of love marriages has gotten big, and is still growing. My parents had a love marriage, and all my cousins getting married now say that they paved the way. ;)
The tikka your cousin wore, was beautiful! The other night oddly enough I was looking up nose pins and came across a site that had just about everything she had on. OMG so much to buy!!!
Hahaha, shopping for a wedding takes forever. Thankfully, I got to sit it out. XDD
your lucky!!
My first thought was WOW that is one big nose ring o.O;; My second thought was, HOLY CRAP SHE IS BEAUTIFUL! Also, that henna must have taken hours. Gorgeous pictures, thanks for sharing :D
Glad you liked them! :D And thank you, I’ll pass the compliments along to my cousin!
Wow awesome wedding ^^)
There si definitely a strong family resemblence between you and your cousin. Maybe its the glasses. Beautiful wedding and excellent photos! Mozeltav to the enw couple
zomg, so cool! amazing cloathing. so awsome!
Jeez.. It’s nice but it looks like it’d be hella expensive. o_o
Wow, truly amazing.
If I am ever fortunate enough to marry I will take a few pointers from such weddings as this.
Very beautiful :)
Weddings in different cultures/religions has always interested me. Granted Christian weddings have their own charm.. I’ve just seen enough of them to make them a bit ordinary in my mind. Great pics man and I wish the best for them.