Balkan in Goa☀️👯‍♀️🎊🌸

Still blown away by all the impressions and feelings from last night, we started the second day of the wedding with a well needed breakfast at the resort. A lot of us were quite tired and hangover but the pineapples and lots of coffee solved the problem.
We were so excited for day 2! The first stop was the temple for the religious ceremony. We put on our lovely saris and kurtas and headed to the temple all together in a bus. We had to take off our shoes, cover our hair (the guys wore turbans that they got put on at the resort) and bow at the “altar”. The ceremony was lovely even though we didn’t understand anything. Afterwards there were snacks to grab at the temple but soon we headed back to the resort where a very nice lunch waited. All the food at the wedding was delicious.

After lunch it was time to practice the dance choreography that we friends would perform. Later it turned out that cousins had their own choreography, and so did the parents and aunts/uncles of the bride and the groom. Such a nice tradition. The dance was cute and I felt like I was on a class trip the whole time since we did all these things together as a big group.

Then it was time to get ready into our evening outfits and we were off to the party of our lives.
The reception area was beautifully decorated, we mingled and had some drinks while waiting for the couple. Then we were gathered by the father of the groom, to greet the newlyweds with some prskalice. Harsh and Nina Singh entered the venue dressed up, beautiful and ready to party! They opened with a wonderful dance full of love which made most of us shed some tears. After that, it was time for the Slovenian delegation to shine, because the dance of friends followed - we could say that we are proud of our performance, but we would be lying. Our performance was followed by dances from the family of the couple which overshadowed our performance for sure - luckily we were the first!
Then the true party/workout began- we danced and danced together to Indian, American and Balkan music and sweat more than ever before, Indians truly know how to party! They were dancing to our music and we to theirs like we do it every day. It was unbelievable.

This was truly an unforgettable experience that still feels surreal. (The separation anxiety hit hard toward the end….)もっと詳しく