The day after our marriage a priest came to our home in the morning to prepare for a time of worship (pooja) to give thanks to God for our marriage. Many people, most of whom couldn't attend our marriage, came to the house during this time to participate in the ceremony and to observe and join in lunch afterwards. The pooja took around one hour to complete and afterwards visitors came to meet the new bride of the family (me ;) ).
Something interesting: As our worship ceremony was beginning we got a strange visitor to the house...in hindi its called 'kinner.' A type of person resembling both man and woman who came to receive money and give some type of blessing on our marriage. I don't know much about it but apparently these people come to the homes of people with new marriages, or newborn babies and its customary to give large sums of money to these people. If not, they will cause a lot of trouble and say curses on the family. We didn't have any trouble, but I just thought it was something interesting, a type of visitor we definitely don't have in the U.S. after a marriage.
During the ceremony.
Lots of visitors.
Family photo with Abhinav's uncle, aunt, and cousins.
Something interesting: As our worship ceremony was beginning we got a strange visitor to the house...in hindi its called 'kinner.' A type of person resembling both man and woman who came to receive money and give some type of blessing on our marriage. I don't know much about it but apparently these people come to the homes of people with new marriages, or newborn babies and its customary to give large sums of money to these people. If not, they will cause a lot of trouble and say curses on the family. We didn't have any trouble, but I just thought it was something interesting, a type of visitor we definitely don't have in the U.S. after a marriage.
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