Jaisalmer - Indian weddings

After another few uneventful days of recovering from colds and James getting another boat of food poisoning, we booked our camel safari and retreated back to our room.
Our lovely family hosts had invited us to their cousin's wedding, which we missed the first day of because of James' illness, but the second evening we managed to attend the ceremony of the groom, and his family, going to the bride's family home. He does this on a white mare and with a lot of pomp and ceremony and of course loud music and lots of dancing.

Every night if our stay we'd heard very loud drumming and music playing until 3am so it was nice to actually witness the events it was coming from. We were told it's wedding season so that's means multiple wedding every evening in Jaisalmer for many weeks.

It was a sight to behold. The horse was elaboratly decorated and so calm in the face of such loud drumming and music. Well wishers would circle money around the grooms face and then hand it to the man at his side who'd keep it safe for the happy couple to star their matrimonial life with. All the family members were in their most beautiful elaborate finery, making me feel the most under dressed ever. As we moved away from their house the procession got bigger and bigger and the pictures and donations kept flooding in. If you think UK wedding photographers take a lot of photos, wait to see you a Indian wedding photographer. They pretty much dictate the whole event. Making sure they get every moment looking perfect and not missing a single second.

We followed the procession only part of the route as we had to be up early the for our camel safari, but I definitely got my wish to see part of an Indian wedding.Read more