| India is a vast country with a lot of people who are | | | | three days to complete a wedding. First of all, in the |
| from different religions. Different religions mean | | | | morning a lot of things happen at the groom’s |
| different rituals. India is a country where most of | | | | place. A priest does all the things. The groom goes to |
| people are from Hindu Religion. That is it’s | | | | the bride’s home along with a lot of people who |
| another name is Hindustan. Hindu weddings are very | | | | are basically relatives, neighbors and familiar persons |
| much different from other weddings and lot of things | | | | in the evening. Actual marriage happens there. At first |
| happen in time of marriage. All the parts of marriage | | | | the groom is welcomed by sweet and milk by the |
| are not same in all Hindu Marriage as there are | | | | mother in law. Then he is taken to the alter and |
| different cast and sub-casts among Hindus. Indian | | | | given the wardrobes. Then the bride comes near the |
| wedding ceremonies are traditionally conducted at | | | | alter sitting on a birding tool which carries by some |
| least partially in Sanskrit, the language in which most | | | | young person. They move round the groom seven |
| holy Hindu ceremonies are conducted. The local | | | | times and the garland exchange happens. Nest they |
| language of the people involved is also used since | | | | are taken to the alter again and the priest starts his |
| most Hindus cannot understand Sanskrit. They have | | | | work. He ties the bride’s and groom’s right |
| many rituals that have evolved since traditional times | | | | hand together with a straw and chants mantra. At |
| and differ in many ways from the modern western | | | | last the groom puts snider on the forehead of the |
| wedding ceremony and also among the different | | | | bride with the help of the wedding ring. The main |
| regions, families, and castes such as Rajput weddings | | | | marriage is over now. The very next day the new |
| and Ayer weddings. By the Hindu Marriage Act of | | | | bride is taken to her husband’s home. On the |
| 1955 passed by the Union Parliament of Indian dating, | | | | third Bou bhat (rice giving by the bride ceremony) |
| for all legal purposes, all Hindus of any caste, creed or | | | | takes place. A lot of people come to the that party |
| sect, Sikh, Buddhists and Janis are considered as | | | | along with the r relatives, neighbors of the bride. At |
| Hindus for the sake of the Hindu marriage Act — | | | | night the new bride and groom are taken to a room |
| and can hence intermarry. I am basically from a | | | | decorated with flowers where the live ever after. |
| christen family. I have got an opportunity to witness | | | | Just as Hinduism is hard to grasp and contrast against |
| a Hindu marriage when my friend Subho’s | | | | the newer, book-defined, structured religions such as |
| marriage took place in West Bengal. He belongs to a | | | | Christianity and Islam, Indians singles dating are also |
| Bengali family. It was very interesting. It takes long | | | | hard to categorize purely on a religious basis. |