Pictures

• Jodhpur General
• Ring Ceremony
• Pithi
• Milni
• Jaan
• Barat
• Wedding
• Welcome Home
• Art Work
• Miscellaneous

Video

weddingvideo.mov (~460MB): This is the wedding video. I took many hours of wedding video and edited it down to a 13 minute video clip using iMovie.

You need Quicktime to view the movie.

NOTE: This file is on the temp drive on the UGCS cluster. Let me know if you have any problems downloading the file

What is going on in this video?

Here is a scene by scene breakdown:

• "Gopal Niwas" This is the guest house we rented in Jodhpur, Rajasthan for our stay. This is a traditional house with a square courtyard in the middle with the rooms along the perimeter.
 
• "The Mehndi" All the ladies were putting henna on their hands and feet before the wedding events started. This took place in the courtyard of the guest house. Here is an rough translation of what the ladies were singing (in Marwari): "Come under my umbrella. Shubha is getting wet."
 
• "Ring ceremony" This event took place at her house with her Grandfather performing the main ceremonies. Interesting tidbit here: I gave my ring size earlier so they can have the appropriate ring made. I didn't take into account that my hand would swell up a bit in India. Result was the ring was too small to go on my ring finger. Her aunt (a doctor who lives in Ohio), being very helpful, decided to try to force the ring on my finger. After a bit of forcing a bunch of people were making some hilarious (and loud) comments and she had to pulled back (if she wasn't pulled back she would have continued to try to get the ring on). ;-)
 
• "Pithi" This is basically the event where people smear yellow, gooey stuff all over me. Idea is that this stuff is supposed to cleanse your skin and make you glow afterwards.
 
• "Music Program" This event was a music and dance performance night. Some people put on a parody of how we met skit. Kim Lumbard played Shubha.
 
• "Meeting of families" This event was where the two families officially met. This took place in the courtyard at the guest house.
 
• "Wedding Procession" This was on the night of the wedding. This was the wedding procession from our house to her house. Basically it consisted of me riding on the horse and chariot (no, it was brighter than that ;-) ) while everyone danced and sang in the streets of Jodhpur. There were several wedding processions going on at the same time...not to mention the normal car and cow traffic. NOTE: Since it was dark we had a portable gas generator to power the lamp posts carried by people.
 
• "Reception" No, we are not married yet. Generally (in Rajasthan) the reception occurs before the wedding. This took place on the open grounds next to her house.
 
• "Wedding ceremony" This was a relatively quiet ceremony in the backyard of her house. The ceremony started around 11:30PM on Saturday Nov 18 and ended some time around 3AM on Sunday Nov 19 (I forget the exact start and end times).
 
• "Welcome home" This was the morning after the wedding ceremony (Sunday Nov 19). The tradition is that on the way home people will ask me who I brought home. They will then ask me to physically pick her up to show that I can support her ("feats of strength" as someone pointed out). Instead of doing this on the way home we did this in the driveway of the guest house. Yes, several people asked for me to pick her up. ;-)