{"id":1432,"date":"2018-05-29T10:16:32","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T10:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sayjack.net\/?p=1432"},"modified":"2018-05-29T10:20:27","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T10:20:27","slug":"wedding-2-hindu-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sayjack.net\/?p=1432","title":{"rendered":"Wedding 2: Hindu Ceremony, Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Shrigley Hall, site of the Hindu ceremony. It’s a former family estate, later a boarding school, now a country house resort and getaway.<\/p><\/div>\n

The Hindu wedding started at 11 AM Sunday with\u00a0150 or so family members and guests gathered in a private room at Shrigley Hall. \u00a0A priest began meditation and chanting in Sanskrit, pausing from time to time to explain to western guests, in what\u00a0quickly became a moving, memorable and spectacular experience.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Written explanations were also provided in a program. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Nick and Abhi (brother-in-law) ready for ceremony.<\/p><\/div>\n

The service was highly ceremonial, but never formal, as guests continuously moved about, chatted, snapped photos and joined in with ululations and conch shell horns as called for.\u00a0 <\/span>It was simultaneously a holy ceremony and group celebration.\u00a0 <\/span>I won\u2019t attempt to capture it\u2019s symbolism and richness, but let\u2019s see if photos can capture some of the spirit.<\/p>\n

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Dale in sari and Jay in kurta, ready for wedding.<\/p><\/div>\n

There can be no doubt: Nick and Aditi are married!<\/p>\n

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Betsy in sari.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Sarah helps dad with last minute adjustment.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The priest prepares the dais for the ceremony.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Assembled guests<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Hindu wedding started at 11 AM Sunday with\u00a0150 or so family members and guests gathered in a private room at Shrigley Hall. \u00a0A priest began meditation and chanting in Sanskrit, pausing from time to time to explain to western … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-1432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fam-friend","tag-no-england"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3QqGi-n6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sayjack.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sayjack.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sayjack.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sayjack.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sayjack.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sayjack.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sayjack.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sayjack.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sayjack.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}