Wedding from a different culture - Hochzeit einer anderen Kultur

When a foreigner arrives, you rarely get close to truly intimate things abroad than when you are a local. Still, there are days when you're lucky. Like that day. We were invited there by a large family who were celebrating their wedding in the temple. For us it looked like the Arabian Nights. Glittering dresses and suits, jewelry, hats, headgear... unbelievable.

The ceremony lasted several hours. The priest had lit a fire, the holy fire, and the couple walked around it, tied together with a knot as a sign of togetherness.

A lot of people come to such a festival. When I did a rough calculation, I came to about 170.
After the feast we went to the restaurant. There was vegetarian food, because it is forbidden to eat meat near the temple or during the ceremony.
This all took about 6 hours.

The next day the party went on, this time in a hotel where there was food and drinks and dancing in the evening. Till late into the night it went on. Here again more guests came and a huge hall was then also fast times full.
Sari for the women and suit for the man were obligatory and we quickly got a sari from the tailor and a suit. The time was short and at the end we still have it on time.

It was a special party, full of joy and mica.
An event that we will never forget...