Weddings

This photo I took at a friend's wedding in Delhi. The thing I love about Indian weddings is the medley. There's all this colour, and hundreds of relatives, and so much food and chaos and kiddies running everywhere, and everyone is wearing colour. But gold, red and yellow sort of form a theme. There's the gold on jewellery and clothes; red for the bride's clothes and bangles, the flowers, and all the kumkumam; and the yellow in the haldi, the marigolds, and faint traces on the skins of the bride and groom if they were suckered into a haldi ceremony. That's why I love this picture: it sort of brings everything together in one fell swoop, and to me is as representative of the Hindu wedding as a bouquet of white roses, or a veil is of a Christian one.