India Blog!

Due to heavy traffic, Piya was not yet at the club when I arrived, and I felt sheepish hanging out at the members-only bar and restaurant, so I wandered around the premises. Actually, to be honest, at first I thought this might be the hotel, but I should have known better. This type of lavish display could only signal a wedding ceremony. Indians pay top-rupee for weddings, often going into debt to pay for a single event. Recently, I heard about a wedding between two families - three daughters of one family marrying three sons of another at once in order to consolidate the costs of such an affair. Two and a half thousand people were in attendance. Thousand! Today I heard that the percentage of arranged marriages was 90, as opposed to the 80 I'd initially heard.

At any rate, I nosily took a few shots of the beautiful red and gold tents, the candled front gate, and the red carpeted walkway. Red is thought to be an auspicious color in India, which is why brides traditionally wear it at their weddings.