I am Puerto Rican who is very much interested in the Indian culture, especially since I am always being mistaken as Indian. I have started watching the Hindi and Punjabi movies and have been trying to learn the language. This explanation is great. But as a photographer, these Shots are FABULOUS. Beautiful. Namaste.
The Indian culture sooooo beautiful the wedding traditions and customs are just gorgeous. I would love to be able to attend a wedding like this. Gorgeous
I have photographed many weddings in my lifetime, I’ve never done an Indian wedding. I was approached for an Indian wedding once, and more than willing to take it, I wanted to be that photographer who was open to anyone and everyone. Until I realized that it was more than one event, and I wasn’t able to schedule it in. Needless to say, she went with someone else.
As an Indian-American, thanks! I was born and raised pretty non-traditionally here and I only ever attended like one wedding back in India when I was 11, so its nice to get a feel for how it looks and works since I mainly only remember the main ceremony
Can’t wait to be part of this colorful wedding 😊 I see why some are several days not sure what guests will do the whole day, but your info helps thank you 🙏🏼
tbh you will have a lot of guests of course that stay for every moment of the events and then you will have just as many guest who will show up for a few hours and then leave during. When we did our Haldi ceremony, were on our stage for hours. Then we got to join in on the dancing. Of course when another family member arrived we were back on the stage again for them to smear the haldi (turmeric) paste on us. You will truly love it! There are so many meaning behind very little item. Wait until the marriage ceremony when you dump rice on each others heads. lol We had some fun small traditional games we did during ours.
For Sangeet, both bride and groom side (friends,family) has to prepare dance numbers. On Mehendi you get Mehndi, For Haldi, you smear Haldi on the bride and groom and spend the rest of the time getting ready, eating and recharging.
For sure, it's gonna be very useful for anyone who has never been into an Indian wedding, but you forget to mention the haldi ritual, where turmeric (haldi), oil and water are applied to both the bride and groom by married women on the morning of the wedding.
There's a guy in a horse drawn carriage being led by a marching band in the street behind my hotel in New Delhi... thanks for helping me to understand what is happening!
I am a non indian bride to be. Thank you for an interesting, informative, fun to watch, short and sweet video of what to expect of an indian wedding. 🙏
Oh my, thanks so much. I have my first Indian wedding to do in a couple of weeks. A doctor, no wedding coordinator, to be held at a pond then the reception in the evening. Wish me luck.
Hi Alan, love your energy, enthusiasm, and passion for sharing your expertise. I’m an Indian American mom of a daughter who is wanting to get married (and we’re in the process of looking for a suitable boy...yes, an arranged marriage of sorts!) That’s how I chanced upon your video in my feed. You’ve explained the highlights of the wedding ceremonies very well. However you may want to consider the fact that South Indian weddings are very different from North Indian weddings. Also Destination weddings and intercultural/inter religious marriages have become a big part of current trends (as you’ve mentioned in this video) and that creates a lot of fusion in the marriage ceremonies. One of my Indian cousin’s daughter’s (my niece) recently got married to a Scottish guy who was part Japanese. So they had a church wedding in the UK followed by a Mehendi-Sangeet-simple ritual in India, more as a ‘meet the family’ event and to keep the grandparents happy. Mehendi-Sangeet are more of North Indian wedding components that have become more popular even in the South due to promotion by wedding planners. True South Indian weddings would be more ritual-based with the fire rituals playing a more prominent part. I’m sharing all this more for the sake of your young Indian American channel followers to enhance their own cultural awareness. (And also to know how to explain it all to my daughter! 😊) Overall you did a great job and I really enjoyed watching what you had to share. Keep up the great work!
@@AlainMartinez I’m an Indian American and we have so many Indians living in USA. You should watch Namaste Wahala, on Netflix Bollywood and Nollywood. An Indian guy and an Nigerian girl.
Thank you so much for this video, the one our teacher gave us for our assignment was terrible and did not explain anything. So I did some further research and found this extremely high quality video. Thank you again for making this video so I could actually take notes lol
I was fortunate enough to be invited to attend a friend's wedding. They were both east indian. Going in i was not sure what to expect. I was nervous, i'd never been in a temple before. I also was surprised to learn our attendance would be requested for THREE DAYS worth of events very much like explained in this video. Somr things that i was surprised by, caught off guard by, were: *Shoes off upon entering temple - they all go in a giant heap by the door and somehow everyone manages to find their own when they go! *Women must cover their heads in the temple - yes even non Indian attendees! We were given loaner scarves to use as we were not prepared for this! *instead of grooms side and brides side they seperate attendees by gender women on one side, men on the other. *The food was vegetarian as stated in this video but LOTS OF IT! and he's right it's wonderful! Super flavorful and delicious! * the pandit (holy man performing the ceremony) carried around a bowl of a soft not quite SLIMY (but lets just say if your sensitive to textures this might be a tough-ie)the slightly sweet/ dough-y substance that he passed around to each person by pulling off a small bit rolling it into a quick ball and placing it in each person's mouth with his bare fingers as he said a prayer....(granted this was before covid) but was still hard to swallow so to speak! All in all was an amazing, beautiful experience and im sure Vijay and Divya are happily ever after!
Tysm for this!! I have an assignment due tomorrow, i have to write about what i understand about asian marriage. I chose india, china and Indonesia as an example.
What type of milk? Does it need to be a specific type of milk or just cow milk? I just wondered since goat milk is so good for skin I thought maybe there are specifics to these facial treatments and how ingredients are to be considered to use in such treatment❤🎉thank you for sharing all your awesome shoots
Indian weddings are so lengthy bcs its a stage of life where the being took thousands of reincarnations and at the end become a human being so its a huge celebration moment like marriage which is said to be last for next 7 lifes ❤
Thank you for good and perfect explanation 😊😊. Exactly this is the Indian wedding culture/ ceremony. I am an Indian , am watching from india. I really feel proud today......❤️❤️. I got your video through CNBC website.....
Once my girlfriend said we couldn't kiss at our wedding, I got so confused; at that point I have never heard of not kissing at the wedding! I am American and she is Indian. we're still ony teens but have a lot ahead of us. Only*
Even though me and my family are Indian, my brother is marrying a Buddhist girl and both my brother and her know nothing about our wedding ceremonies, this is the video we showed her and my brother, both of them know a lot now about the ceremonies!
Sooooo my crush went to an Indian wedding and said that she was given a present which was chocolate by a boy as one of the events and I'm confused as fc
No, there are many different types of Indian weddings. This video focused mainly on North Indian weddings. South Indian and East Indian weddings follow different rules and traditions depending on the ethnicity of the people. My favourite are Malayali and Tamil weddings
Also south Asian is very vast, there is Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Nepalese etc and then there are extra religious functions depending on the couples religion
The rituals vary slightly - but Haldi (turmeric), stealing shoes, exchange of garlands and 7 rounds around the fire, Sanskrit Mantras these are common. North Indians wear skirts, East and South wears sarees.
These are north indian hindu weddings...there are wide variety of wedding functions in india and my favorite is the Syrian Christian weddings of kerala
There is a difference between doing something in India and something being Indian by origin. When we say Indian food, we dont mean Pizza joints in India.
What percentage of these weddings are white wife's and Indian husband's my boyfriend is indian and I'm white and when you see this type of couple do they do all the parts ?
You're not even giving the whole thing I am stressed trying to look for the explanation of this weeding but all I get is different stuff.. different names... different ceremonies My gaaddd!! I can't find a perfect video to learn and understand my hindu boyfriend.. Took me 2 yrs to keep on studying but same...even in UA-cam or Google I get full different things!!!!!!😭😭😭
I'm white, & my best friend is going to marry a "Brown girl" as she calls herself. Thank you for this information. I can't wait to see the elephant and get my shoes took. This wedding is gonna be lit as fuck!!!! Thank you
I’m an Indian who lives in the US, and I’m only a teen. Thanks for explaining my culture’s weddings, it was really helpful! :)
me too 😭 i don’t want to be clueless when i’m getting married
I'm getting tought about my own culture by a white guy 😭💀
@@kobra5490 there you go haha
I'm an Indian and I'm really impressed with the way you have explained our culture so perfectly❤️❤️
glad you found it useful
I am Puerto Rican who is very much interested in the Indian culture, especially since I am always being mistaken as Indian. I have started watching the Hindi and Punjabi movies and have been trying to learn the language. This explanation is great. But as a photographer, these Shots are FABULOUS. Beautiful. Namaste.
Thank you so much Ada for the nice comment.
Read being different by Rajiv Malhotra on its like crash course on indian civilisation aspects
Very helpful! I'm American and my soon-to-be husband is Indian. This video was helpful for me!
I'm happy to hear it helped. Congrats on your upcoming wedding.
omg ur here too!!
Im american, my best friend is getting married in india the end of next month. Pretty excited and thanks for breaking it down.
I am an Indian. I appreciate this mere clip of you including everything. Much much appreciated 🙏🏻😊
Glad to know you found it useful Shivani
The Indian culture sooooo beautiful the wedding traditions and customs are just gorgeous. I would love to be able to attend a wedding like this. Gorgeous
Indeed very beautiful
I have photographed many weddings in my lifetime, I’ve never done an Indian wedding. I was approached for an Indian wedding once, and more than willing to take it, I wanted to be that photographer who was open to anyone and everyone. Until I realized that it was more than one event, and I wasn’t able to schedule it in. Needless to say, she went with someone else.
next time then. Good luck
As an Indian-American, thanks! I was born and raised pretty non-traditionally here and I only ever attended like one wedding back in India when I was 11, so its nice to get a feel for how it looks and works since I mainly only remember the main ceremony
I love how they truly make the bride soooo beautiful
Indeed they are
These weddings look so amazing. I wish I could have an Indian wedding one day, but I’m not Indian 😢
I'm going to get married in India and had no clue what's ahead of me.. Thanks so much for this brief explanation!
Those eyes! Superbly captured!!!
Fern Trujillo thank you man
Can’t wait to be part of this colorful wedding 😊 I see why some are several days not sure what guests will do the whole day, but your info helps thank you 🙏🏼
I'm glad to hear you found it useful
tbh you will have a lot of guests of course that stay for every moment of the events and then you will have just as many guest who will show up for a few hours and then leave during. When we did our Haldi ceremony, were on our stage for hours. Then we got to join in on the dancing. Of course when another family member arrived we were back on the stage again for them to smear the haldi (turmeric) paste on us. You will truly love it! There are so many meaning behind very little item. Wait until the marriage ceremony when you dump rice on each others heads. lol We had some fun small traditional games we did during ours.
For Sangeet, both bride and groom side (friends,family) has to prepare dance numbers. On Mehendi you get Mehndi, For Haldi, you smear Haldi on the bride and groom and spend the rest of the time getting ready, eating and recharging.
I appreciate this is my first Hindi wedding and my culture is new to me as a multicultural Indian I love finding out information like this. Thank you!
Thanks for the explanation. The photos are just stunning!!!😍😍😍
For sure, it's gonna be very useful for anyone who has never been into an Indian wedding, but you forget to mention the haldi ritual, where turmeric (haldi), oil and water are applied to both the bride and groom by married women on the morning of the wedding.
i love this tradition its lovely
So helpful. Thanks for doing this!
U did an excellent narration of an Indian wedding
Thanks for loving my culture 💕...n i appreciate your way of explaining
my pleasure
There's a guy in a horse drawn carriage being led by a marching band in the street behind my hotel in New Delhi... thanks for helping me to understand what is happening!
I am a non indian bride to be. Thank you for an interesting, informative, fun to watch, short and sweet video of what to expect of an indian wedding. 🙏
Awesome pics! and really intersting culture !
I have a project on Indian weddings coming up, and your video is very helpful🙏🏾
Oh my, thanks so much. I have my first Indian wedding to do in a couple of weeks. A doctor, no wedding coordinator, to be held at a pond then the reception in the evening. Wish me luck.
Hi Alan, love your energy, enthusiasm, and passion for sharing your expertise. I’m an Indian American mom of a daughter who is wanting to get married (and we’re in the process of looking for a suitable boy...yes, an arranged marriage of sorts!)
That’s how I chanced upon your video in my feed. You’ve explained the highlights of the wedding ceremonies very well. However you may want to consider the fact that South Indian weddings are very different from North Indian weddings. Also Destination weddings and intercultural/inter religious marriages have become a big part of current trends (as you’ve mentioned in this video) and that creates a lot of fusion in the marriage ceremonies. One of my Indian cousin’s daughter’s (my niece) recently got married to a Scottish guy who was part Japanese. So they had a church wedding in the UK followed by a Mehendi-Sangeet-simple ritual in India, more as a ‘meet the family’ event and to keep the grandparents happy. Mehendi-Sangeet are more of North Indian wedding components that have become more popular even in the South due to promotion by wedding planners. True South Indian weddings would be more ritual-based with the fire rituals playing a more prominent part. I’m sharing all this more for the sake of your young Indian American channel followers to enhance their own cultural awareness. (And also to know how to explain it all to my daughter! 😊)
Overall you did a great job and I really enjoyed watching what you had to share. Keep up the great work!
Thank you for loving our culture!
Yes, we do love the South East Asian culture
@@AlainMartinez I’m an Indian American and we have so many Indians living in USA. You should watch Namaste Wahala, on Netflix Bollywood and Nollywood. An Indian guy and an Nigerian girl.
Where do you find music to use in your Indian wedding videos?
Proud to be indian
Great video and awesome shots makes me even more pumped for some Indian weddings!!
Glad you enjoyed it guys!
Thank you so much for this video, the one our teacher gave us for our assignment was terrible and did not explain anything. So I did some further research and found this extremely high quality video. Thank you again for making this video so I could actually take notes lol
glad to hear it helped
I was fortunate enough to be invited to attend a friend's wedding. They were both east indian. Going in i was not sure what to expect. I was nervous, i'd never been in a temple before. I also was surprised to learn our attendance would be requested for THREE DAYS worth of events very much like explained in this video. Somr things that i was surprised by, caught off guard by, were:
*Shoes off upon entering temple - they all go in a giant heap by the door and somehow everyone manages to find their own when they go!
*Women must cover their heads in the temple - yes even non Indian attendees! We were given loaner scarves to use as we were not prepared for this!
*instead of grooms side and brides side they seperate attendees by gender women on one side, men on the other.
*The food was vegetarian as stated in this video but LOTS OF IT! and he's right it's wonderful! Super flavorful and delicious!
* the pandit (holy man performing the ceremony) carried around a bowl of a soft not quite SLIMY (but lets just say if your sensitive to textures this might be a tough-ie)the slightly sweet/ dough-y substance that he passed around to each person by pulling off a small bit rolling it into a quick ball and placing it in each person's mouth with his bare fingers as he said a prayer....(granted this was before covid) but was still hard to swallow so to speak!
All in all was an amazing, beautiful experience and im sure Vijay and Divya are happily ever after!
Tysm for this!! I have an assignment due tomorrow, i have to write about what i understand about asian marriage. I chose india, china and Indonesia as an example.
Thank you very much I m from balcan country and my future husband is from India so I really need it this video thank you bro
❤very nice 👍
I'll marry an Indian wonderful man, I'm a latina. Where I can learn more about it, please any suggestions. Thank you🙏🏼🙏🏼 love this video😍😍😍
what exactly do you want learn about?
I think you missed something called a haldi ,in which the bride undergoes a traditional facial treatment with turmeric sandal and milk
Yup, I did. We have covered that many times. Lots of traditions for sure.
What type of milk? Does it need to be a specific type of milk or just cow milk? I just wondered since goat milk is so good for skin I thought maybe there are specifics to these facial treatments and how ingredients are to be considered to use in such treatment❤🎉thank you for sharing all your awesome shoots
@@lauradiaz-autin3178 cow milk
Why am i watching this. I knew it already. BTW nice video
Thanks for appreciating the Indian culture
Perfect!! I needed this! Need to show this to my non Indian friends coming for my wedding
Indian weddings are so lengthy bcs its a stage of life where the being took thousands of reincarnations and at the end become a human being so its a huge celebration moment like marriage which is said to be last for next 7 lifes ❤
I am marrying an Indian and as the bride this is helpful as we are mixing my czechoslovakian culture with his Indian culture
Where are u from ?
@@Noone-gz8li Czech republic
Nice 👌
Thank you for good and perfect explanation 😊😊. Exactly this is the Indian wedding culture/ ceremony. I am an Indian , am watching from india. I really feel proud today......❤️❤️. I got your video through CNBC website.....
What? Can you share a link where this was posted? Thank you.
@@AlainMartinez do you know?? And thanks for viewing my comment. ♥️
Ehhh llegue tarde a la fiesta! Love it, so interesante!
Ellie Lopez haha. Mejor tarde que nunca
Wow is an excellent video I could learn a lot.
Lol Im indian who grew up outside India. Thank you for you video.
Welcome in Bharat and enjoy new wedding ceremony 🎉❤❤
Thanks!
Once my girlfriend said we couldn't kiss at our wedding, I got so confused; at that point I have never heard of not kissing at the wedding! I am American and she is Indian. we're still ony teens but have a lot ahead of us.
Only*
Hi there. Please can you tell me what music you used at 1.00. Much appreciated 👏🏾✨
I can't remember the name of the song but it's a royalty free song from Artlist.io
It's Indian culture's rajasthani music
@@tanujamishra6537 That much I knew, just liked that particular sound 😊
Hi alan which song did you play on here 0:50 ? Thanks
Its rajasthani classic music
Even though me and my family are Indian, my brother is marrying a Buddhist girl and both my brother and her know nothing about our wedding ceremonies, this is the video we showed her and my brother, both of them know a lot now about the ceremonies!
Buddhist and Hindu marriages are same in india
Same rituals
Starts at 2:25
What's that?
Thanks
I'm Norwegian viking goddess and I'm getting married to ganesha soon who is basically the most popular god in India so this helped me alot. Thanks
glad to hear that. Have fun at your wedding.
married to whom?
Nice one Alain!!
Muhamed Khattab Films thanks man
Sooooo my crush went to an Indian wedding and said that she was given a present which was chocolate by a boy as one of the events and I'm confused as fc
Yes chocolate and sweets in general are very appreciated
WOW!!! Thank you so much for the information and absolutely beautiful work...
I'm glad to hear you found it useful!!
I am an Indian who lives in India but never understood so many parts 😂
What was theoutro music Alain?
I found it on triplescoopmusic.com
Informative, but I wish this video had more Indian wedding images and videos under the voice rather than talking heads :)
My sister is engaged to a Indian American and Mahatma parents want all the family from India to be at the wedding 😂
are all Indian weddings following these same rules? please let me know anyone.
No, there are many different types of Indian weddings. This video focused mainly on North Indian weddings. South Indian and East Indian weddings follow different rules and traditions depending on the ethnicity of the people. My favourite are Malayali and Tamil weddings
Also south Asian is very vast, there is Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Nepalese etc and then there are extra religious functions depending on the couples religion
@@SK-hd1yk True
The rituals vary slightly - but Haldi (turmeric), stealing shoes, exchange of garlands and 7 rounds around the fire, Sanskrit Mantras these are common. North Indians wear skirts, East and South wears sarees.
May i respectfully ask, are these weddings arranged marriage?
Both
❤
These are north indian hindu weddings...there are wide variety of wedding functions in india and my favorite is the Syrian Christian weddings of kerala
Yeah there are many different types of indian weddings.
There is a difference between doing something in India and something being Indian by origin. When we say Indian food, we dont mean Pizza joints in India.
Syrian is not Indian wedding.
@@rairadio7119 well said
bro gets to the point at 2:25 ur welcome
Why do you not show the pictures while you are speaking? You do not need to be in shot the whole time!
I'm from Pakistan and we do alot of similar things but even I'm confused about what's happening lol
Stupid converted, u r all fallowing Hindu culture..
Accept it or not your forefathers were also hindu.....
It's north Indian wedding ......
South Indian is different
He said Indian wedding not imported Indian wedding
Ajj kal toh mujhe south indians per gussa aaney laga hai....har jagah north south ghuser detay hai...Bhai he said indian wedding...
What percentage of these weddings are white wife's and Indian husband's my boyfriend is indian and I'm white and when you see this type of couple do they do all the parts ?
Wow...you explained it beautiful...but there is sooo much detailing..Lol
It NOT an INDIAN wedding. It's just a wedding in HINDU culture✋
You're right. Thank you.
It's not Indian wedding? What is Indian wedding then ?
Haldi
This was disappointing, I still don't know what to ware or expect, last this I want is a exhibit in the corner...
You're not even giving the whole thing I am stressed trying to look for the explanation of this weeding but all I get is different stuff.. different names... different ceremonies
My gaaddd!! I can't find a perfect video to learn and understand my hindu boyfriend..
Took me 2 yrs to keep on studying but same...even in UA-cam or Google I get full different things!!!!!!😭😭😭
Just I saw you and you know what you actually look like my boyfriend ! 😔
I'm white, & my best friend is going to marry a "Brown girl" as she calls herself. Thank you for this information. I can't wait to see the elephant and get my shoes took.
This wedding is gonna be lit as fuck!!!!
Thank you
Sounds like you're in for a party Nigel!!
Not 2000 years. Our culture is 10000 or more years old. Proud Hindu
Faker