Who did Tolstoy meet at the Russian Street ?
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Explanation:
With my head resting on a chair in a random roadside restaurant in Bangalore, I was trying to gasp for air and gather some energy to stand up. I’d just fainted – after 4 days and 7 hours of continuous sari shopping. Borders, golden threads and beads, meters of clothes of all colors… all of them were spinning around my head and merging in a wild dance of wedding shopping demons. On that day, or a few months later, was I thinking that may be it was not worth it? No, not a single moment, and I will tell you why.
Being a guest at an Indian wedding is a unique, once in a lifetime experience. Organising an Indian wedding on your own is an experience which is worth a dozen of lives.
The reason why Bollywood movies are centred around weddings is not (just) because of all the colors and flair. It is because any Indian wedding IS worth a movie. Or two. Mix it with a Russian one, and you can double the effect.
Walking down the aisle
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In my culture, a wedding preparation procedure as well as its meaning has always been crystal clear to me. In no particular order: you find a dress, make a guest list, secure a picture-perfect place to sign the papers and exchange rings, organize an elegant party (as a crazy party might not please all the participants), and survive the big day from 7 am make up to the last disco beats with happiness or stress, or both.
A modern Russian wedding is about two people, publicly creating a union in one day, or in a few hours. A modern Indian wedding is about rituals, celebrations, prejudices, generations, parents, families, guests, bonding, laughers, tears, emotions, dramas, peacemaking, traditions, religion, philosophy, wonders. All this is happening against a backdrop of shopping, shopping, gift exchange, shopping, eating, dancing, eating. If at least on of these ingredients is missing then it is as good as if it had never happened. Our wedding had it all …
Gossiping about guests while drying mehendi
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Our wedding turned out to be a very special affair not just because of a crazy mishmash of cultures. It truly celebrated what such an event is ought to celebrate – “togetherness”. It was the first time that our parents met each other. It was a weekend when we met our childhood friends after decades of not seeing them. It was a place to which people traveled for over two days across the oceans, or hopping from one train to another, without even questioning their travel destination. Thank you.
The groom is having fun with his friends during mehendi
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Parents are exchanging presents with each other, spreading a national flair
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When we were organizing the wedding we wanted to cherish traditions, but also to fit it in the modern and intercultural context and top it with a never-ending celebration – which, thanks to our guest and families, didn’t appear to be such a difficult task.
Guests made sure that we were properly “beautified”, and no precious paste has gone waste! (see gallery)