Our wedding was a very special Kerala Hindu Wedding. Our dream day was on 09-09-2019. We were blessed by around 1000 people that includes our close relatives and our dearest friends and well wishers. The muhurtham was at 10 am in the morning and the reception was at 9.30 am. The wedding location was Sri Mulam Club, Vazhuthacaud, Trivandrum. Like most hindu wedding ceremonies, ours was also solicited by dear and near ones. The sumptuous sadya is also a speciality of hindu wedding, after which the bride and groom leaves to the groom’s home. Even friends from far away places like Chennai were able to make it to the wedding. Do watch our wedding highlights!
Thanks to HarisVision for the great work. Special thanks to Sachu,Arun,Vishnu,Suresh and Prasad, who did their best in what they do to deliver the best of services for our wedding photography and videography.
A Hindu wedding is Vivaha (Sanskrit: विवाह) and the wedding ceremony is called Vivaah Sanskar in North India and Kalyanam (generally) in South India. Hindus attach a great deal of importance to marriage. The wedding ceremonies are very colourful, and celebrations may extend for several days. The bride’s and groom’s home—entrance, doors, wall, floor, roof—are sometimes decorated with colors, balloons, and other decorations.
The rituals and process in a Hindu wedding vary widely. Nevertheless, the Hindu wedding ceremony at its core is essentially a Vedic yajna ritual and three key rituals are almost universal: Kanyadaan, Panigrahana, and Saptapadi—which are respectively, giving away of his daughter by the father, voluntarily holding hands near the fire to signify union, and taking seven ‘steps before fire’. (Each ‘step’ is a complete circuit of the fire.)
At each step promises are made by (in the long form—see below) each to the other. The primary witness of a Hindu marriage is the fire-deity (or the Sacred Fire) Agni, in the presence of family and friends. The ceremony is traditionally conducted entirely or at least partially in Sanskrit, considered by Hindus as the language of holy ceremonies. The local language of the bride and groom may also be used. The rituals are prescribed in the Gruhya sutra composed by various rishis such as Baudhayana and Ashvalayana.
The pre-wedding and post-wedding rituals and celebrations vary by region, preference and the resources of the groom, bride and their families. They can range from one day to multi-day events. Pre-wedding ceremonies include engagement, which involves vagdana (betrothal) and lagna-patra (written declaration), and the arrival of the groom’s party at the bride’s residence, often as a formal procession with dancing and music. The post-wedding ceremonies may include Abhishek, Anna Prashashan, Aashirvadah, and Grihapravesa – the welcoming of the bride to her new home. The wedding marks the start of the Grihastha (householder) stage of life for the new couple.
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