Who can forget Mira Nair's Monsoon Wedding? A movie that captures the quintessence of India's wedding 'high jinks'. Although, the locale is Punjab, it imbibes the core of the family spirit, which is an essential part of any Indian wedding.
Indian wedding ceremonies have solemnity and sass, poignancy and panache.
Never mind if you aren't Hrithik Roshan, or Kareena Kapoor, your wedding day, if you enter into its spirit with gusto, is designed to make you feel quite as important and well-loved as any celluloid pair.
It's a time when you feel connected with hoary traditions, yet young and full of hope..
A time when you feel as sacrosanct and precious as all those timeless and lovely symbolic accoutrements of the Indian Vedic marriage: fire and water, rice and jaggery, jasmine and sandalwood, shimmering silk and a string of black beads.
The traditional Indian vivaha is the perfect example of how Indians weave serious ritual and playful games to form the texture of the marriage ceremony.
Laughter, in fact, is wisely brought into play as Indian families are close-knit and a daughter's leave-taking (the 'bidaai') is a moment of heartbreak for her folks, especially her mother.
Indian weddings are also seen as an occasion for the extended family to come together. In the olden days it was not very easy to travel across the country to meet relatives. Weddings and other important ceremonies provided them good reasons to undertake the long and often tedious journeys.
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