Lots of color, culture and tradition here.
Simply beautiful!
Below: Laja-Homah - Puffed rice offered as oblations into the sacred fire by the bride while keeping the palms of her hands over those of the groom.
Below: Saptapadi - Marriage knot symbolized by tying one end of the groom's scarf with the bride's dress. Then they take seven steps representing nourishment, strength, prosperity, happiness, progeny, long life and harmony and understanding, respectively.
14 comments:
these are awesome, I love looking at them, seems like such a neat thing to witness and photograph. Love their smiles while putting rice on each other
you lucky duck you! wish i could get a gig like that. your pictures are beyond outstanding. the colors are so intense...love them.
Holy moly!! what a fun wedding this must have been. I love all the symbolism and how you captured 'just the right moment'. "D
Wow, Ruby! What a beautiful experience that must have been. Love all of these moments you captured! :o)
wow! what an amazing job you did here ruby!!! big surprise ;) i love the images of them throwing up the rice!!! you were a perfect choice!
Just beautiful, Ruby! What a great experience too! You've been having some great experiences this year, missy!
Wow. I'm so jealous. I would love to do a Hindu wedding for the traditions and color alone! Great job.
Ruby, what can I say.....great job. But you already knew that didn't you?! :-)
The detail is great and the stories add to the photos.
These are beautiful!!! Do you use photoshop are lightroom? Right now I am a big photoshop user but I am starting to lean toward lightroom it is so fast with raw images.
Beautiful Ruby, Just Beautiful.
oh ruby...these are so beautiful!!! i have been wanting to photograph an indian wedding for forever...you lucky girl...
Wow that is so cool! What a neat experience.
Love the colors!!
Ruby, I love coming to your blog and learning more about the cultures of this world! Great images!
I could have sworn I commented on this post. I love Indian Wedding colors ... they're always so lively. Good thing your 5D wasn't borrowed... the pictures wouldn't have turned out Friggin' Amazing like they did here. Cheers friend. //enoch
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