A traditional Hindu Kerala wedding
I was in Alleppey, a small district of Kerala State of India, fondly known as God’s Own Country. Alleppey one of the major centers for backwater boat trips in India. We were there to attain a wedding ceremony. Unlike traditional Kerala wedding, it was somewhere in modern auditorium following traditional ritual. Hall was filled with hundreds of people. In about few minutes, I noticed a groom arrived at a stage greeting everyone with Namaskar. The bride’s was in a traditional “dhoti” and “angavastram”. My Kerala friends told me that the bride’s father washes the groom’s feet and welcomes him. The groom then gives him the off white sari that has to be worn by the bride for the nuptials and exactlly i saw the same white sari, she was wearing the day.

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Sadya

After wedding ritual was over, A typical Kerala feast, referred to as sadya, is spread out temptingly on a clean green banana leaf. And the food is to be eaten with the fingers. Even the dessert, payasam, that tastes like rice pudding, is served on the leafy plate. Its a pure delicious vegetarian food with such as sambar, rasam, olan, kaalan, pachadi, kichadi,rice…a lot of variety.

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