South Indian Weddings

I see this in almost all the south indian weddings/receptions. You along with your family or friends are made to stand on either side of the bride and groom, and then what do they do ?

Take a video of everyone standing there for a min and everyone staring at the camera ( not to mention the bright light that blinds you). I don’t understand the logic at all. I was at a wedding today and yes they had 3 people shooting us using a video camera for what should be a photoshoot.

17 Comments

  1. kingsly · April 27, 2004 Reply

    1 from the bride’s side… 1 from the groom’s.. and I guess since it was your friend’s wedding… they must have been paranoid enough to hire a redundant camera! :o)

    But seriously I hate way the whole reception thingie goes around here… and I guess all the couples hate it too.. but they get little say in how things get done.

  2. admin · April 27, 2004 Reply

    Do everyone has an issue with it and the final video output looks crappy anyway.. So I don’t see why they still continue to have it ?

    The photography session still makes sense though

  3. mannu · April 27, 2004 Reply

    What I hate about Sindhi weddings is that they absolutely have to show off the jewellery and mention how much who’s spent on the wedding at every opportunity. The wedding is more for the parents’ egos than for the children’s future. Sick.

    BTW, if you want to know what a Sindhi engagement ceremony would look like, see Hum Hain Rahi Pyaar Ke, in which Dilip Tahil plays the *evil* Sindhi businessman. See the scene in which Aamir Khan is getting engaged to Tahil’s daughter and how Tahil is showing off the “ruby ka ring” in front of the camera.

  4. kingsly · April 27, 2004 Reply

    I’ll have to say video is better than still photographs when it comes to capturing large crowds… fewer people will get left out.

    But my issue is with the whole ceremony/function itself… most receptions have hundreds even thousands of people attending… most of them are people whom the bride/groom will probably never meet again or even if they do… the couple is definitely not going to remember them from the reception!(If you ever get introduced to the couple/bride/groom at the reception… there’s a 99% chance that they won’t remember you when you meet them next… so you can always tell them… “hey I was there at your reception! don’t you remember?” and get away with it 🙂 [I guess this is one of the reasons why they record the whole thing on video!]

    If it’s necessary to have such a ceremony I’d rather have one that’s not rushed and people actually get a chance to know who’s who.

    Maybe a weekend at a resort.. where you have friends dropping by and spending a whole day… would be a smaller crowd and probably more time spent with each guest.

  5. kingsly · April 27, 2004 Reply

    Yeah these ceremonies are the adult version/equivalent of “Aaj mera happy budday hai!” 🙂

  6. mannu · April 27, 2004 Reply

    Yeah. I agree. Inviting everyone and their dog to a wedding ceremony makes it so “not special”. Like LiveJournal.com. 🙂

  7. achitnis · April 28, 2004 Reply

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  8. yathin · April 28, 2004 Reply

    One other thing I’ve noticed these days in receptions – Guests stand in a long queue to meet the bride and groom.

    Arrrgggh … getting married is such a pain and attending marriages is a pain as well.

  9. mannu · April 28, 2004 Reply

    Most couples are so tired after the reception that they have no energy left for celebrating their first-night. 😀 For women, especially, it’s difficult standing all day with all the weight of that jewellery. Fat-rich women shouldn’t have a problem though.

  10. deepak · April 28, 2004 Reply

    > I see this in almost all the south indian weddings/receptions.
    Aren’t you a South Indian yourself?

    The logic is to watch the video at leisure and tell your $spouse that $foo is your mother’s cousin’s uncle and that he had once bought you a Dairy Milk when you were a kid and so on. Even if he was missed otherwise, he will be ‘grabbed’ during the ‘photoshoot’.

  11. admin · April 28, 2004 Reply

    Aren’t you a South Indian yourself?

    Yep. and you can be sure.. this won’t happen in my wedding :))

    But I understand the photoshoor funda.. but why video of people standing on the stage ??

  12. ashwinb · April 28, 2004 Reply

    this won’t happen in my wedding :))

    Come now. That isn’t true and you know it.

  13. rythm · April 28, 2004 Reply

    Agreed atleast on this point.
    The idea is to have a video coverage of pepole who attend the marriage and the traditional ceremonies which take place. But, the stand up punishment is just a publicity gimmick, to show off a bit and doesnt serve any purpose. Its normally, ppl. who give gifts are called onto the thingy, so maybe they wanna keep track of who gave gifts and who didnt:)

    Apart from the stand up on the bench rule, the video stuff is better.

  14. nithya · April 28, 2004 Reply

    me went thru the same at my cousins wedding last week.. ou need to give that stupid smile and look at the camera.. whats worse if you dont do it then the photographer asks you to look and smile..
    the end result??? a totally horrendous looking expression

  15. yathin · April 28, 2004 Reply

    this won’t happen in my wedding

    We’ll see in 2 years time! 😉

  16. killapop · April 28, 2004 Reply

    a photograph captures just one moronic expression.
    a ten second clip and u get a lot more moronic expressions.
    At my wedding, im hiring one video camera per guest to record their every movement and then put the fuckers up on reality tv.

  17. sankup · May 1, 2004 Reply

    dont forget they shoot … even wen u r eating….which is even more sad……!!!

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