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When brides lead the way for tying the knot
THESE WERE marriages with a difference! Three brides, two of them on horses, (mares to be more precise) led the marriage processions to the grooms? house. The event occurred on Sunday evening at Kandawa village in Varanasi.
THESE WERE marriages with a difference!
Three brides, two of them on horses, (mares to be more precise) led the marriage processions to the grooms’ house. The event occurred on Sunday evening at Kandawa village in Varanasi.
Two brides, Sunita and Babita, led their baraats (wedding processions), riding on mares while the third, Mina, reached her groom’s house in a car.
A large number of locals witnessed this unique arrangement Five couples tied the knot on the occasion.
This unique marriage ceremony took place at the house of Dr DL Kashyap, Director of Kashyap Films and Television Research Institute, in Kandawa village.
Dr Kashyap married his three sons and two daughters in this group marriage ceremony.
Sunita’s baraat, daughter of Rambali Patel and resident of Lahiya village in Varanasi, reached the Kashyap house where Dr Kashyap received the baraat and contrary to tradition, touched Sunita’s feet.
The bride was in a veil. She reached the dais and later, the groom, Shashi Kashyap reached the dais. All the rituals usually performed by the father of the bride as per the tradition, were performed by the father of bridegroom, Dr Kashyap.
It was the same scene for the remaining two brides. Mina, daughter of RV Verma and resident of Chitbisrav village, married Pavan Kashyap, another son of Dr DL Kashyap. The third bride Babita, daughter of Hoshiyal Singh and resident of Lalpur, was married to Ravi Kashyap, son of Dr Kashyap.
The two daughters of Dr DL Kashyap, Sona and Seema, were married to Upendra, son of Kaluram Patel, and Vijay Bahadur, son of Birju Patel. When the baraats of two bridegrooms reached Dr Kashyap hosue, he tounched the feet of his sons-in law and later both of them reached the vast dais.
