SMALL CHRISTIAN INDIAN WEDDING

Today somebody in Vasu's hometown was getting married so... We went!

This is not the traditional Bollywood extravaganza Indian wedding that we see in movies. Vasu had warned me that it was going to be a "small" Christian wedding. Apparently the most important thing in a South Indian wedding is food so there was plenty of it! In the South they don't dance so there wasn't any music.

The wedding ceremony was scheduled for 10:30 but we decided to show up at about 12:40 so we could be there only for the eating partake avoid the heat and waiting around of the ceremony! Haha we arrived just in time, the newlyweds were just leaving the church and proceeded to walk out where a group of men surrounded them and they started chanting/ screaming and putting their arms up in the arm and bringing them down and moved to different places of the church. 

We decided to go check out the food...

I was impressed by the amount of people! Look at the queu! There were more than one thousand people at the wedding... On a MONDAY! 

Weddings are extremely important in India and they don't necessarily happen on the weekends! So, people just decide not to go to work in order to attend weddings. In fact, Lakshmi, Vasu's sister, found two of her workers at the wedding! Haha 

There was a HUGE variety of food for veg and non veg!

Nowadays they do more of the buffet style instead of a sitting serving. Plus, the inside can only accommodate 500 people so if there wasn't a buffet offered and people couldn't sit outside they would have to wait their turn after the first round was done eating!

Here is a blurry shot of the bride and the groom inside the salon.

Here's how big the salon is... ginormous!

And here I am eating with my hands!

People just sat outside and ate their lunch.

There were so many people that I bet the bride and groom don't even know who attended and who didn't! We stayed probably for an hour and the newlyweds were busy the whole time doing some kind of ceremony!

Overall it was a good experience! I thought it was a little crazy how many people were there on a Monday by put I guess weddings take priority in India!