This was a post written by my good friend, Tinna, originally in Icelandic about her trip to India for the wedding. She translated it for us here. Thanks Tinna!
Also check out Sabina’s post about buying India bangles and my thoughts on planning an Indian wedding.
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Mumbai is dirty and loud, colorful and crazy. We had a chance to check the city out a few days before the wedding schedule started so we spent most of them in central Mumbai, where you can find many historical places and monuments.
When most of the wedding guests that were flying in from abroad had arrived, the whole group, guided by the father of the bride, visited the IIT Bombay and the headquarters of Reliance Communications. These visits gave us a different picture of Mumbai than we had gotten driving past the slums downtown.
The hosts showed us the part of India that is on the fast lane of technical development and it was pretty impressing. The parents of the bride moved back to India after years of living in the States and her father has since, among other things, worked as a consultant for Reliance.
We obviously had a blast att the wedding, which lasted for several days and included a lot of great food, many religious ceremonies (where we sometimes could follow what was going on, sometimes not) and several brilliant moments with nice people from all the corners of the world.
Between the ceremonies we hung out in the neighbourhood where we stayed, drank coffee and took photos. The teacher even found some students to hang out with.
The day after the wedding we flew down to Fort Kochi in Kerala, where we spent the last days of our trip. Fort Kochi was a lot calmer than the big city and we enjoyed spending our days doing nothing, just strolling around this old Portugese/Dutch colony. One of the days we spent in the backwaters, an amazing network of waterways that wind their way through the whole state.
Finally, here is a picture that Andrew took of the whole group that flew in from Sweden, Italy, UK, USA, The Filippenes, France, etc. to join the festivities
