Weddings in India

India, a vast geographic area with the maximum diversity. The most believed and considered nation for its culture and tradition. Rituals and Customs are always been an immortal part of Indian weddings.

According to Hindu Shastra, humans have to undergo four different stages of life, of which Grahastha Ashram or Married life is the second one. It initiates when a man and a woman come together as whole and console and marry each other.

Every stage in life signifies its own charm and entreaty and married life is too charismatic and appealing. In India, a marriage was usually arranged by the parents of the bride and the groom and follows various steps. But, now as the generation X has changed the perspective and opinion of the people, marriages are arranged by the bride and groom as their love marriage.

Marriage is not only considered as a union of two souls, but of two families. In India, marriage is taken as the experience and the hold of responsibilities, which teaches humans the actual worth of life and being honest to your actual values of life.

Weddings in India costs a massive amount of not only money but man power too. To arrange all the pre-wedding, wedding and post-wedding functions. The wedding routine of the family includes shopping for bride and groom, families, relatives, etc. The pre-wedding includes engagement ceremony, mehndi, ladies sangeet and tilak rituals. Main day course of the wedding does mapping for the mandap and the varmala. The post-wedding streamlined for the vidaai and wedding reception.

Different religions have different customs and traditions and even have different names for the same ceremonies too. As Hindu wedding rituals are different from the Muslim once, they are two different religions. But, if we took the example of Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, etc sharing almost the same geographical area and dialect still the wedding rituals differ.

The Punjabi, Marwari and Sindhi have the ease of royal weddings and reception nowadays. But marriages are done to show the sickness of anxiety and richness. People waste gigantic assets for the purpose of a marriage that can be simply done in the presence of some, close friends and relatives rather than hyping it as a public event.

Weddings of India cannot be compared and equalized with any of the country around the globe because it has the significance of rituals, norms of customs, essence of love, trust of purity, base of honesty, promise of loyalty.

Every stage in life signifies its own charm and entreaty and married life is too charismatic and appealing. In India, marriage is taken as the experience and the hold of responsibilities, which teaches humans the actual worth of life and being honest to your actual values of life.