Here are some pictures clicked in & around Jammu city, shortly after our wedding. In this set: The splendid Bagh-e-Bahu gardens and their weird half-fish aquarium. Our first Holi together, with plenty of colour (and egg! ugh). Our exciting trip to Lake Mansar with my family, over a particularly exciting road. Download in ZIP format. [...]
Posts from ‘March, 2009’
Our Wedding
At last we come to the main event – humari shaadi :) There are quite a lot of photos here, so we’ll break this up into two parts. First we have the reception dinner, held at The Ritz in Jammu: Download in ZIP format. As you can tell from the pictures, this was a smash [...]
The big day: 3rd March 2009
Download in ZIP format. It was a pretty exciting day. There were a lot of ceremonies around making me a bride. It all started with pooja and then all the relatives took turns to apply uptan (a paste made from turmeric and oil) on me. It is done to make the bride look beautiful. Later [...]
Gareth’s tilak ceremony
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Mehndi: 2nd March 2009
Download in ZIP format. This is probably the most fun event in any wedding. I was looking forward to this day. We had some mehndi (henna) artists come to our place and apply mehndi on my hands and feet. There was a lot of singing and dancing. We invited Gareth’s family also for this event. [...]