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Love fills the moment, and the moment begins eternith
Love fills the lifetime, and a lifetime begins this hour
Marriages are settled in Heaven and celebrated on Earth
The unity of two unknown souls, written right from Birth
For Yesterdays memories,
Today’s love
And
Tomorrow’s dreams
Indian Wedding Ceremony:
Indian
Wedding (vivaah or shaadī in Hindi and panigrahana in Sanskrit)
ceremonies are traditionally conducted in Sanskrit, the language in which
most holy Hindu ceremonies are conducted. They have many rituals that have
evolved since traditional times and differ in many ways from the modern
western wedding ceremony and also among the regions and caste. The Hindus
attach a lot of importance to weddings and the ceremonies are very colourful
and extend for several days. By the Hindu Marriage Act of 1955 passed by the
Union Parliament of India, for all legal purposes, all Hindus of any caste,
creed or sect, Sikh, Budhhists and Jains are considered as Hindus for the
sake of the Hindu marriage Act—and can hence intermarry. By the Special
Marriage Act, 1954, a Hindu can marry with a non-Hindu employing any
ceremony provided certain legal conditions are fulfilled.
The pre-wedding ceremonies include engagement (involving vagdana or oral
agreement and lagna-patra written declaration), and arrival of the marriage
party at the brides residence, often in the form of a marriage procession.
The post-marriage ceremonies involve welcoming the bride to her new home.
An important thing to note is that despite the fact that the modern Hinduism
is based on the puja form of the worship of devas as enshrined in the
Puranas, a Hindu marriage ceremony is essentially a Vedic yajña (a
fire-sacrifice), in which the Aryan deities are invoked in the archaic
Indo-Aryan style. The primary witness of a Hindu marriage is the fire-deity
(or the Sacred Fire) Agni, and by law and by tradition, no Hindu marriage is
deemed complete unless in the presence of the Sacred Fire, seven
encirclements have been made around it by the bride and the groom together.
Marriages are made in
Heaven – Our job is to make your Marriage look Heavenly..
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