This wedding is so extravagant


In traditional Indian weddings, there is a ritual called Mehendi, in which the bride and her female friends and family paint intricate painted patterns on their hands and feet.

For the ceremony, Nikhita created Alice's Wonderland for the guests. Not only were there a variety of flowers (Nikhita loved flowers so much that the wedding planning team searched for flowers for her and even traveled to China to look for flowers), there was also a beautifully made Cinderella carriage for guests to clock in and take photos.

Then it's time for the Indian wedding's Sangeet night, and this time Nikhita brings Bollywood directly to the guests' eyes.

Russian eggs, Victorian art pieces, walls and curtains of colonial architecture, and plenty of crimson flowers are all part of Nikhita's designated on-site decorations for the gala.

Guests can taste food from all over India here.

And that's not even the wedding day. A traditional Indian wedding lasts about three days.

But luxury isn't all it takes to get married in India. In this documentary, we also see a couple who inject deeper meaning into their nuptials.

As you can see from the choice of location, family, origin, culture and family tradition play an important role in this couple's wedding, who they are, where they come from and so on, all of which are reflected in the wedding.

The wedding was finally decided to take place in Pisangar, a small village near Jaipur with a magnificent building. For all the preparations for the wedding, the bride Divya always adheres to the principle of "local procurement, local employment" to make a contribution to the local employment.

Sanghnar, another small village outside Jaipur, is famous for its printed fabrics, which are hung to dry once they have been printed.

But that's not the point. The point is that the cloth will be recycled after the wedding to make uniforms for the girls in the village.

The paper used to make the wedding invitation and menu is also a special production technique, and the paper is inlaid with flower seeds, so the guests can directly put the invitation and menu in the soil after the wedding, and the flowers can be planted.

Also, in Pisanga, the groom's family had a huge farm, so all the food for the wedding was grown on their own farm.

Every object, every material used in this wedding, will have a note below its finished product explaining where it will go after the wedding. In addition to the above mentioned, the flowers used in the wedding are also recycled to the paper mill for paper production.

Bride Divya feels that this approach not only makes their wedding more personal, but also hopes to reduce the waste and negative impact on the environment caused by their grand wedding in this way.

Although there is still a gap between these six weddings and the 700 million weddings of the richest man's daughter, it is surprising that in this documentary we see a different side of Indian women.

One of the two scenes that impressed me most was that in the three weddings in this documentary, they all eliminated the traditional part of the father giving the bride to the groom, and replaced it with the parents giving the two to each other.

Because in their view, women are not commodities and should not be handed over by one party to another; Marriage should be an expansion of each other's family, not just one person joining the other's family.

The other, at the end of the second episode, is a passage by the bride Pallavi Bishnoi

"The last thing I want to say is that your wedding day is not the most important day of your life. [Learn to] start celebrating other things in your life, [like] going to the gym, getting a promotion, getting a vacation, etc."

"Your life is not made up of three parts: before your wedding day and after your wedding day. Your life is whatever you want it to be."

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