Thom's new favorite songFollow

Yeah i saw that this morning and it made me feel good .


I had a big Indian stylee wedding with loadsa singing and dancing and shouting and laughing. Indians tend to treat the whole thing as an excuse to let loose as opposed to getting all formal and up-tight about appearances. Add in all of my hippy mates, most of whom have spent lots of time in India and knew what to expect (and dressed accordinly...)and it was a great big happy mess of fun. After 3days of that, I felt like i had a massive elastic band stretched around the back of my head from grinning like an idiot the whole time. And a hangover. Good times. Weddings can be so much fun.

Lol, I'm definately not indian. My wife is.

Day 1 is all about guests getting to know each other, eating and drinking and culminates in a big group effort of a dance where you are given a big stick and then cruise around in a big ring whacking sticks with your neighbours. I never really got the hang of it, and my knuckles were pretty sore by the end of it.

Day2 is the wedding bit. We had some holy hindu do the ceremony, wich takes n hour or so and involves a lot of walking in rings and burning bits of insence and wotnot. Then theres an exchange of vows and some business with a necklace called a Mangalsutra. And the groom gets asked 3 times if he's sure he wants to marry the bride.

Because it all goes on for a while, the guests tend to wander about chatting and eating, and when its all over theres a big cheer and everyone (the indians) gives the married couple a gift, wich is traditionally cash. Then a long afternoon of grinning, photos and nipping around the back for a spliff wiv me mates..

Evening was a munting great feast for 250 cooked by my mother in law and her minions, and then loads more smoking drinking shouting and dancing. All finished off with a heap of fireworks and a visit from the police.

Day 3. Is a day of doing your best to fully appreciate and consume anything and everything that was left over aided by probably 100 guests who never managed to leave (The whole thing was held at the In-laws house and in their garden).

The day after that we got sent to Kenya for 2 weeks so we didnt have to help clean up.

There were still 20 or so people who hadnt made it back to India by the time we got back 2 weeks later....




Of course we had to go and get a quickie registry office thing to make it 'official' as well, but the indian ceremony will always be the day I got married.

Edited, Jul 25th 2009 5:07am by paulsol

Ah, it was that guy! Who's dumb enough to beat up on your girlfriend when you're about to go to the Grammys?

Ever since *I* saw Bend it like Beckham my goal in life was to bang an Indian girl, then came across some Nadia Nyce ****. Good enough for me.

I just returned from a cousins wedding. Another cousin is getting married next weekend and apparently they will be having nothing more than different entrance songs for each groomsmen/bridesmaid entrance into the reception. All typical midwest folk so the wedding was at a non-denominational and the reception was at some catering place in the middle of an industrial park. That's Janesville , WI for ya though

Only odd thing that happened was some synchronized looking dancing to some newish song at the reception. I don't know the song and I was a bit too tipsy to hear what it was. Suffice to say, when they all synced up, I felt like I was tripping balls. Cool entrance by the way, some of the other similar videos were pretty slick too. Song on linked was meh.

Edited, Jul 25th 2009 1:36am by Paskil