An Indian Wedding (Nov 04)

sehsuan · 4th February 2005

This was done for a campmate of mine, whose sister married in November...

A ceremonial procession around the temple grounds, before the main rites

The Sri Mariammam temple was decorated with garlands, and other traditional Southern Indian decorations for the festive mood

Midway through the earlier rites...

The sweet door gifts

sehsuan · 4th February 2005

The videoman recording the finer details of the rituals, after the lady's and the man's own rites, to unite them as man and wife.

The ceremonies include a fair lot of fire in all forms, partly due to the belief of fire representing good triumphing over evil, as well as blessing the union.

This was my first time to a traditional Southern Indian style wedding, and it was indeed an interesting eye-opener, to the fellow cultures of this country we call home.

All shots were taken at ISO800, including the first shot with the vignetting. Indoor photos were processed for Levels, typically.

melnjes · 4th February 2005

Never seen this before, love the colours

jbma · 4th February 2005

Good one my friend. Love the colors too.

sehsuan · 4th February 2005

thanks, guys.

i was personally amazed at the plethora of colours that i saw, and i could have gone blind at the amounts vivid colours at the wedding itself. i suppose this is indeed traditional Southern Indian - where Ponggal comes to mind, as there is a celebration of good harvest, because there was a time where the congregation at the temple threw handfuls (actually much less than a handful) of rice grains - this i believe are attributed to blessing the couple.

hot and humid, but what i saw, i thought it was really interesting, unlike the average local chinese wedding (western style), because practically all of us know what's going to happen next!

audiorook · 5th February 2005

Very COLOURFUL!!!! GREAT COVERAGE!!

arttl · 6th February 2005

Well documented.....

destiny_star · 6th February 2005

nice going sehsuan..

hardly seen anyone uploading a different wedding culture shots here... and gosh..! it's so rich in colours..

incubus · 8th February 2005

i love the colours
very vibrant
i like the pic of the door gifts

AixisOfJustice · 8th February 2005

Awesome!! Very rich & vibrant colors. IMHO u get such variety of colors only in indian & malay weddings.

sehsuan · 8th February 2005

thanks folks, for the compliments. i was lucky, because i was the backup cameraman, so i was told by my friend that i could do it in "my style" (which isn't really a style per se, but a reaction to actions etc) and cover it in my best attempt at reportage/photojournalism...

thanks for viewing once more!

jasphotography · 9th February 2005

Originally Posted by sehsuan

The Sri Mariammam temple was decorated with garlands, and other traditional Southern Indian decorations for the festive mood

Midway through the earlier rites...

I love the decisive moments of these 2 pictures

The "videoman recording pic" is great as well.

The rest pretty ok too but it would be great if the moments were better captured as the above 2.

Interesting!

Ashwin · 19th February 2005

Excellent Job! Personally i think you did a good job for the first time at an indian wedding. It can get real confusing with all the riturals and programms at an indian wedding and thus hard to cover some stuff. Keep it up!

4th February 2005	#1
sehsuan Deregistered Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Singapore Posts: 6,674	An Indian Wedding (Nov 04) This was done for a campmate of mine, whose sister married in November... A ceremonial procession around the temple grounds, before the main rites The Sri Mariammam temple was decorated with garlands, and other traditional Southern Indian decorations for the festive mood Midway through the earlier rites... The sweet door gifts Last edited by sehsuan; 4th February 2005 at 08:49 PM.

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sehsuan Deregistered Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Singapore Posts: 6,674	The videoman recording the finer details of the rituals, after the lady's and the man's own rites, to unite them as man and wife. The ceremonies include a fair lot of fire in all forms, partly due to the belief of fire representing good triumphing over evil, as well as blessing the union. This was my first time to a traditional Southern Indian style wedding, and it was indeed an interesting eye-opener, to the fellow cultures of this country we call home. All shots were taken at ISO800, including the first shot with the vignetting. Indoor photos were processed for Levels, typically. Last edited by sehsuan; 4th February 2005 at 08:54 PM.

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arttl Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Planet PJ Posts: 1,349	Well documented..... __________________ WWW.JONYEAP.COM

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incubus Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: galaxy far far away Posts: 1,505	i love the colours very vibrant i like the pic of the door gifts __________________ Deviantart shahrulazmi.com

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melnjes Member Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 1,135	Never seen this before, love the colours

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jbma Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Tampines Posts: 3,315	Good one my friend. Love the colors too.

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audiorook Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Yong Kang Posts: 125	Very COLOURFUL!!!! GREAT COVERAGE!!

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destiny_star Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 545	nice going sehsuan.. hardly seen anyone uploading a different wedding culture shots here... and gosh..! it's so rich in colours..

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AixisOfJustice Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Sin City Posts: 190	Awesome!! Very rich & vibrant colors. IMHO u get such variety of colors only in indian & malay weddings.

19th February 2005	#13
Ashwin Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Melbourne/Singapore Posts: 111	Excellent Job! Personally i think you did a good job for the first time at an indian wedding. It can get real confusing with all the riturals and programms at an indian wedding and thus hard to cover some stuff. Keep it up!