Jasmin & Tony - Old and New Sikh Wedding Rituals

If this is your first time on this blog, welcome! Sit back and relax! You probably are going to be here a while. If you are returning, you must know this is the chunni ceremony, where the bride gets a lot of attention from the groom's family:

You also must know the jaago dance:
And you probably even remember Manu:
I don't get to see these fancy moves all the time:
Laser. Fascinating:
Tony receives a royal welcome from Jasmin's brothers:
And the dance continues:
Roman got more skills:
Jasmin and her new mom and dad:
The Mehndi ceremony should be pretty familiar:
Okay, here I just want to show you 2 of the frames Jasmine had made with pictures from our engagement session:
Excellent food was cooked on the spot by New Asian Village:
Here they bake some kind of flat bread. It looks a lot like roti, but it's not:
This is a brand new old Punjabi tradition. It's called 'ghadoli' and even the East-Indian videographer never heard about it:
Ladies from the groom's family take a pot to the gurdwara (Sikh temple) and fill it with holly water:

The water is going to be used for the last shower of the future groom as a bachelor, but I can't show you that... I have to keep this blog PG 13.
This is the first rangoli-less and chunni-less maiya ceremony I've witnessed. A good reason to bhangra, never the less:
After shower, Tony has to step and crush a few plastic cups. Why? Your guess is as good as mine:
Tony makes it look so easy:
Back to the north side, at Jasmin's, the girls are making a new kind of rangoli:
They use colored flour and a bit of white rice:
Jasmin's brothers - Jason and Garatt - have no mercy. Who knows how long they've been waiting for this:
After shower, her cousins carry Jasmin in for the choora ceremony:
You need four well trained specialists for this:
A cousin gives the wedding bangles one by one to aunty:
Aunty deeps them in milk and hands them over to the maternal uncle who slides them onto the bride's wrists:

I still have the wedding and reception pictures to show, but you can have something to eat meanwhile.

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