Indian Wedding in The UK

The Civil and Asian Wedding Ceremonies took place at The City Rooms, Leicester and the Reception party took place at The Hilton Hotel, Coventry.

As per the Gujarati tradition the couple walked around the fire 4 times, but then the bride walked around the groom 7 times. They then had a "Shubh Drishti", where the couple look at each other for the first time, as per Bengali traditions.

The very talented singer, Ash King appeared at the reception singing his latest song - Te Amo from the film Dum Maro Dum, with the party then taken over by Kudos Music. 

"I have the feeling that such families are carrying their roots around the world with them. In a foreign country they need to have the feeling that they still live like at home. It is part of their identity. Emigrants need the feeling of a connection to their home country and religion or traditions offer them this connection.

I feel that in this way some people often get stuck with their old traditions while in their home country the same traditions actually develop further. They, of course, get a touch of the lifestyle of the country they live in, too, and so old-fashioned traditions sometimes clashes with modern living and at other times is nicely combined into a mélange of cultures." (Swami Ji)