Wedding Breeze

Traditional Indian weddings are a lot different from the weddings that are usually the norm in the USA. Here, a wedding is finalized after two consenting adults fall in love and decide to get married. According to popular Indian culture, the parents fix a marriage. It is not rare in the Indian culture to find that the bride has little or no say in the wedding. She just passively agrees and is resigned to her fate. However, this trend is changing and young Indians are freely choosing their life partners. The wedding date is fixed in a ceremony known as the “negotiation.” Both the bride and the groom’s family then select Indian wedding invitation cards and send them out to their respective guests.

The wedding invitation wording on the wedding invitation cards usually starts with the invocation of the Gods that are worshipped by the Hindu religion, if it’s a Hindu wedding. Wedding invitation cards may be printed in any of the many Indian languages or English, or both. Even if it is printed in English, the ancient Vedic Sanskrit mantras are still printed on the cards. Sanskrit mantras in English make for interesting text to read.

Sending out Indian wedding invitation cards is just the beginning of grand celebrations that are to come. Invitation etiquette demands that the parents of the bride and the groom invite their friends and relatives to the wedding personally. Some of the friends living out of the city are invited via telephone and mail. Wedding invitation cards are sometimes designed like messages sent by the Rajas, which were read out in the courts of royal people.

Heavy bridal decoration forms an essential part of wedding decorations in India. The most beautiful part of the wedding is the bride that is usually decked up with precious jewelry from head to toe. The home of the bride and of the groom are decorated as part of the wedding decorations. Instead of candles, oil lamps made of brass are used for wedding decorations. A special dais is built for the solemnization of the marriage and both the bride and groom repeat mantras chanted by a priest. Starting from the Indian wedding invitation car to the honeymoon trip of the couple, every event in an Indian wedding is celebrated joyously with a riot of colors and an abundance of bonhomie.