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Indian Wedding Jewellery
By Aamir Mannan


A Hindu wedding is traditionally conducted at least partially 

in Sanskrit, the language of most holy Hindu ceremonies. 

The local language of the people involved is also used since 

most Hindus do not understand Sanskrit. Hindus have many 

rituals that have evolved since traditional times and differ in 

many ways from the modern western wedding ceremony 

and also among the different regions, families, and castes. 

The Hindus attach a lot of importance to marriages, and the 

ceremonies are very colourful and extend for several days. 

Also, outside the participants' home is decorated with 

balloons and other decorations.

In India, where most Hindus live, the laws relating to 

marriage differ by religion. According to the Hindu Marriage 

Act of 1955, passed by the Parliament of India, for all legal purposes, all Hindus of any caste, creed or sect, Sikh, 

Buddhists and Jains are deemed Hindus and can intermarry. 

By the Special Marriage Act, 1954, a Hindu can marry a 

person who is not Hindu, employing any ceremony, provided 

specified legal conditions are fulfilled.

The pre-wedding ceremonies include engagement 

(involving vagdana or oral agreement and lagna-patra written 

declaration), and arrival of the groom's party at the bride's 

residence, often in the form of a formal procession. The post-wedding ceremonies involve welcoming the bride to her new home.

Despite modern Hinduism being largely based on the puja 

form of the worship of devas as enshrined in the Puranas, a 

Hindu wedding ceremony at its core is essentially a Vedic 

yajna (a fire-sacrifice), in which the Aryan deities are invoked 

in the Indo-Aryan style. It has a deep origin in the ancient 

ceremony of cementing the bonds of friendship/alliance 

(even among people of the same sex or people of different 

species in mythological contexts), although today, it only 

survives in the context of weddings. The primary witness of a 

Hindu marriage is the fire-deity (or the Sacred Fire) Agni. By 

law and tradition no Hindu marriage is deemed complete 

unless in the presence of the Sacred Fire seven 

encirclements have been made around it by the bride and 

the groom together. (In many South Indian Hindu marriages 

these are not required.)