Indian Wedding Procedure. The average expenditures exceed US3000 per wedding. This ceremony within a ceremony is where the groom riding on a white horse makes his grand entrance.
In all marriages Ganesh Puja signals the start of the rest of the wedding rituals. The couple shower each other with a mixture of rice turmeric saffron as a symbol of prosperity happiness and fertility. The ceremony starts off with the kanya daan in which the brides parents give her away.
A haldi ceremony takes place in a Hindu wedding where family members put a mixture of turmeric oil and water all over the bride and grooms skin and clothes.
Big lavish and lively. The wedding ceremony itself is conducted by a priest in a Mandap or canopy with four pillars. The priest chants prayers the parents give the bride away and the bride and groom go around a central fire four or seven times. Fire is an important aspect in the Indian wedding because Agni the god of fire is said to give life.