TRADITIONS

Analisa and Jaidev’s Church Wedding in Goa

Analisa and Jaidev’s Church Wedding in Goa

When one thinks of a wedding in Goa it is very likely that the first thing that comes to mind would be a beach wedding somewhere under the coconut trees, and while many people do come to Goa for a destination wedding on the beach, some people actually live in Goa and don’t need to [...]

A Kashmiri Pundit Wedding

A Kashmiri Pundit Wedding

A Kashmiri Pandit wedding is Kashmiri only by name these days as there are no pandits in Kashmir anymore. If you want to attend such an event your best chance is actually in Delhi, where I photographed Anuradha and Nikhil. Anu nad Nikhil’s wedding was an arranged marriage as so often is the case in [...]

A Syrian Christian wedding in Kerala

A Syrian Christian wedding in Kerala

What is a Syrian Christian wedding in Kerala, and why is it unique? A few months ago I photographed a wedding in south India and wrote a post about it, explaining who the Kerala Christians are, and a bit about the wedding traditions of this culture. Mathew and Shilpa, who got married in Trivandrum a [...]

A blessing to the newly wed couple

A blessing to the newly wed couple

Hijras are members of what is usually considered in India as ‘the third sex’ – neither man nor women. The hijras usually show up at weddings and at the birth of male babies, to perform religious ceremonies intended to bring good luck and fertility. These ‘ceremonies’ involve music, singing, and sexually suggestive dancing, and although [...]

A Hyderabady Muslim wedding in Delhi

A Hyderabady Muslim wedding in Delhi

Taking pictures at a Muslim wedding could be a tricky thing. Not like the traditional Hindu weddings that could take hours, the Muslim wedding itself takes only a minute as the couple sign the Nikahnama separately, and that’s it! By the time I finished photographing the bride, the bridegroom had already singed the Nikahnama in [...]

The Bengali Wedding

The Bengali Wedding

Of all the weddings I have photographed in India until now, it seems that the Bengali wedding is the most complex and diverse in terms of the enormous variety of customs and traditions. According to a fine lady I met at Maxima’s and Abhijit’s traditional Bengali wedding, no Bengali wedding can take place without the [...]

A Kerala Syrian Christian wedding

A Kerala Syrian Christian wedding

Kerala, God’s own country, is a favorite destination for a beach wedding, but a traditional Kerala wedding of the Syrian Christian church is something very different than what most people that come to Kerala had ever seen. Varshini and Alex, or as everyone calls him; Mithun, had a Syrian Christian wedding in Coimbatore, not far [...]

Why Buddhists in Ladakh don’t hire a wedding photographer

Why Buddhists in Ladakh don’t hire a wedding photographer

Why don’t Buddhists in Ladakh hire a wedding photographer, and why should you care about it? Well, because it is something that is huge deal to everyone but is even a bigger deal in India, or so it seems. it is the big ‘P’: “What would the Parents say”? What would they say about the [...]


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