This stop: India. We invite everyone. South Indian? For a Sikh wedding: The ceremony will take place in a Sikh temple where the bride and groom will be seated in front of the prayer hall before the Sri Guru Granth Sahib the Sikh holy book.
When everyone is seated, the priest will begin by reciting the official wedding ceremony hymns as laid out in the holy scripture, while the bride and groom walk four rounds around the area where the Sri Guru Granth Sahib is placed. Usually, the entire ceremony will be completed before noon. Additionally, these ceremonies do tend to be about three hours or longer. For my Sikh wedding, despite careful planning and taking delays into consideration, we still ran over by about an hour.
All of which meant our guests had to stay longer. So as a guest, be sure to keep your day relatively free if you want to experience the full ceremony. Vines of the Yarra Valley has proven itself to be an iconic wedding venue and function centre in Melbourne. For this, the groom arrives at the ceremony on a decorated white horse. Guests dance around him to the beat of a dhol, an Indian drum. After that, the bride and her family greet the groom, and the couple exchanges floral garlands to wear around their necks to symbolize their acceptance of each other.
Then the couple joins hands and circles around a small, enclosed fire the agni in a ritual called the mangal phera. Then the couple will take the saptapadi, or seven steps, as they vow to support each other and live happily together.
Indian weddings often last for at least three days. The first day usually involves a Ganesha Pooja, which is a Hindu festival that reveres god Ganesha.
It typically takes place at home with close family and friends. The second day is reserved for the mehndi ceremony or sangeet, where the bride and her guests adorn their hands and feet with intricate henna patterns followed by dance performances and dinner.
The third day consists of the wedding ceremony in the morning followed by the reception party in the evening. Typically, traditional Indian weddings that closely follow the various ceremonies involved could go up to three to four days.
Increasingly, however, couples are shortening the affair and keeping it within two or three days. For instance, my husband and I went for a three-day occasion, which included a traditional mehendi ceremony, the religious wedding ceremony at a temple and a dinner reception at a hotel. We could have squeezed everything into two days, but we wanted time to breathe in between the ceremonies, so we opted to separate the temple wedding and dinner reception into two days, while the mehendi ceremony happened on an earlier day.
Oftentimes, Indian weddings are held at hotel banquet halls or Hindu temples. There will be a decorated, four-pillared, gazebo-like structure called the mandap where the ceremony will take place. Chairs will be set up in front of the mandap for you to view the ceremony, with the first few rows usually reserved for family and the wedding party.
The priest lights a holy fire called the agni. The couple typically steps around the fire seven times, symbolizing seven sacred vows given to each other. Instead of just the typical ring to signify the newly betrothed couple, the bride usually gets a line of red powder applied on the part of her hair, along with a black and gold necklace called the mangal sutra.
Most female guests attend weddings wearing colorful saris, lehengas and Indian suits accessorized with glittering jewelry. Prepare to loosen your drawstring when attending an Indian wedding. With a plethora of cocktail hours, appetizer stations, dinner buffets and dessert set-ups over the multiple-day event, you may want to pace yourself. We recommend you sample a bit of everything. Looking for Wedding Caterers in Melbourne? Look no further, Vines of the Yarra Valley has you covered. Don't be afraid to wear a bold colour.
This will help you fit in with the Indian guests who'll be dressed in vibrant colours and eye-catching jewellery. If you don't have a traditional sari, a jewel-tone dress with a shawl is appropriate too. It is acceptable to wear western formal wear to a Hindu celebration but it is encouraged to buy traditional attire. For the men, suits are acceptable if that is what you are comfortable in.
If you wish to wear something more traditional, there are a number of mens outfits that you can wear. The main two are Kurta Pajamas and Sherwanis. Bright colours are encouraged but choosing one you are most comfortable in is the main thing.
What Will the Food Be Like? Two of the most common misconceptions about Indian food is that it's all spicy and it's all vegetarian. In reality, it depends on which state the couple's families are from. There will be both food during the day and at the evening reception and there are some slight changes in the food options depending on the time. One example of this is that the naans are not served during the day but they will be available during the evening meal.
Instead, puris or bathuras are served during the day. There will be no meat allowed during the day if there has been a religious ceremony but at the evening reception there will likely be both vegetarian and non-vegetarian options. This again can vary depending on the wedding and families but there are less restrictions. Indian weddings are definitely a time to show off, so what better way to show off than having the most rich and lavish dishes, and lots of them.
Alongside this there is the evening meal, expect lots of paneer, creamy curries, tandoori meat, and buttery naans. Often there is a dessert table, which typically includes cake, kulfi Indian ice cream and decorated sweets made from nuts. There can be sometimes up to four stations of chefs preparing food for guests. A traditional Indian wedding can last up to five days, but most last for three days. In all marriages, Ganesh Puja signals the start of the rest of the wedding rituals.
The family will offer a prayer to Lord Ganesh, requesting peace and harmony to prevail during the ceremony. Other things that occur on the first or second day is the mehndi ceremony. For this, the bride and her female friends and family members will have intricate henna patterns drawn on their hands and feet.
That evening, the sangeet takes place. Every wedding guest is usually invited and it can involve the introduction of the couple's families, mingling, a meal and dances or other performances. Entrances for the bride and groom will also take 45 minutes each.
In Indian culture, generally the baraat happens which is when the groom and his side dance their way into the altar. In villages and towns in India this can go on for like 5 hours, but in today's modern world it's about an hour tops. Keeping that in mind, the usual wedding itinerary and schedule of events would look like:.
This is the baraat. It's called the milni which literally means "meeting. As you can see, from the time you arrive until the time it's over, the whole process is actually closer to 5 or six hours. Indian weddings come in all shapes and sizes. Most of the middle-class Indian weddings we see, where bride or groom work at a big corporation or grew up in the US won't last more than 90 minutes. But they're other factors that could be closer to the day stuff you see online:.
Usually there is a dinner or downtime or a reception on the same day after the wedding. South Indian wedding ceremonies folks from Bangalore, Chennai, Keralae, etc..
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