prasad1
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A beautiful wedding
A Tam-Bram girl marries her orthodox Jewish boyfriend.
The hotel where they got married is a luxury Marriot (where many desi wedding takes place).
Of course, we had a white mare for the groom, and loud Bollywood-themed music for the barat. Lots of bright colored Saris, and Kurtas. Dancing on the street welcoming for the groom.
The Hindu wedding started at 9 AM and continued till 12:30 PM. We had 2 South Indian pujaris conducting the ceremonies. They went through 9 different steps including Malai matinal, Manglaiy Dhararam, etc, with detailed descriptions of each step in English. The sad part was they were asking this American man to say the Sanskrit mantras. Which probably did not make any sense for the majority of Desis in the audience. The audience squirmed and giggled at the difficulty this poor kid was having, knowing fully well that we too would have struggled.
In the evening a Jewish wedding is performed by a Jewish women friend of the family. The ceremony lasted for 30 minutes. Again, they repeated chanting in Hebrew and forcing the couple to repeat them. Why do we do that? Then, the boy and girl gave beautiful and hilarious speeches.
A Tam-Bram girl marries her orthodox Jewish boyfriend.
The hotel where they got married is a luxury Marriot (where many desi wedding takes place).
Of course, we had a white mare for the groom, and loud Bollywood-themed music for the barat. Lots of bright colored Saris, and Kurtas. Dancing on the street welcoming for the groom.
The Hindu wedding started at 9 AM and continued till 12:30 PM. We had 2 South Indian pujaris conducting the ceremonies. They went through 9 different steps including Malai matinal, Manglaiy Dhararam, etc, with detailed descriptions of each step in English. The sad part was they were asking this American man to say the Sanskrit mantras. Which probably did not make any sense for the majority of Desis in the audience. The audience squirmed and giggled at the difficulty this poor kid was having, knowing fully well that we too would have struggled.
In the evening a Jewish wedding is performed by a Jewish women friend of the family. The ceremony lasted for 30 minutes. Again, they repeated chanting in Hebrew and forcing the couple to repeat them. Why do we do that? Then, the boy and girl gave beautiful and hilarious speeches.
