Hey all, Preeti here, taking over for Nadya. This week’s #WTBT is dedicated to my parents. They had this crazy, though intimate, wedding with a Gujarati-Jain wedding, a Maharastrian-Hindu wedding, and a reception.
Whoa!
My parents met in the 70s and did what may teens wanted to do, but couldn’t do: they fell in love and had a love marriage. As the story goes, they lived across the street in Mumbai and had mutual friends, though they themselves were in very different social circles. They were forced to meet in person when my mom needed a math tutor and my father’s friends volunteered him.
And as one can say the rest is history.
The Maharashtrian wedding:
The Gujarati-Jain wedding:
At the reception. That’s my dad’s sister making a very silly face.
If you want to know something super cool, then check out the bridal henna below. The photo on the left is Rekha’s hand, and the photo on the right is mine. Notice how similar they are? That’s because her best friend did her mehndi and my mehndi for our weddings, 30 years apart!
Today, I see these photos as bittersweet. She is no longer with us, but she always with us in spirit. And in an effort to always think happy thoughts of her, I see these wedding photos and think, “damn, she was fashionable and beautiful.”
Rekha was a babe. Well ahead of the time.
i’m not sure what you mean by multicultural…you showed two photos of two different ceremonies and they look exactly the same so…
don’t get it
Hi Jami – Good question. The two photos are from two wedding ceremonies, one Gujarati and one Maharastrian. Overall, it was a multicultural (and inter-religious) wedding.