In August of 2013 my Buddhist fiance and I were married in a blended Hindu and Celtic ceremony. We also had a quiet Hindu temple ceremony afterwards.
If you’ve been looking for information or resources on weddings that are Hindu, Hindu in America, or Hindu as part of an interfaith ceremony, I hope I can be of some help.
My Posts About My Wedding
Wedding Inspiration 2/20/13
Choosing a Date 2/27/13
Blending Ceremony Elements 3/6/13
Wedding Cake 3/13/13
Wedding Budgeting 3/20/13
Wedding Hair 3/27/13
The Wedding Dress 4/3/13
Your Choice: Christian or Jewish 4/10/13
Wedding Dupatta 4/24/13
Honoring Lost Loved Ones At Your Wedding 5/1/13
Wedding Jewelry 5/8/13
The Truth About Wedding Planning 5/15/13
Lessons Learned From My Parents’ Marriage 5/22/13
Bangles for Tiny Wrists 5/29/13
To Baraat or Not to Baraat 6/5/13
Three Lessons to Learn From Bridezillas 6/12/13
Hindu Readings for a Wedding Ceremony 6/26/13
Wedding Still To Do 7/17/13
Wedding Dupatta/veil: Take Two 7/24/13
T Minus 18 Days 7/31/13
How To Dance At My Wedding 8/7/13
Flowers for a Hindu Wedding 8/14/13
THE WEDDING! 8/17/13
THE SECOND WEDDING: PURE VEDIC CEREMONY 9/1/2013
Other Hindu Wedding Blogs I Recommend
Peaches and Blush (Thanks, Andrea!)
Crazy Indian Wedding (this post is on the Solah Singar, the beautification of a bride)
Hindu Wedding Resource Sites
Here are a few great finds from the comments on my wedding announcement post of non-Indian Hindu weddings! I said I hadn’t ever seen a Hindu wedding where neither the bride nor the groom was non-Indian and our friends pipped up with a couple of examples…
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150539628117149.376493.633132148&type=3&l=70b02e191f
Here are some images from an interfaith wedding where the baraat is non-Indian:
And an interfaith Jewish/Hindu wedding:
http://www.theknot.com/weddings/album/laurie-and-anil-an-interfaith-wedding-in-malibu-ca-45922
How about some Buddhist and Hindu weddings at my favorite site: A Practical Wedding? (I am so submitting my wedding for a wedding graduate post there!)
http://apracticalwedding.com/?s=hindu
More…
http://aprendizdetodo.com/wedding/
http://www.hinduwedding.info/index.html
http://www.vivaaha.org/the.htm
Marry Me Weddings, a planners blog with a South-Asian emphasis
Overview of Hindu Wedding Traditions
Hindu Wedding Guide http://thebigfatindianwedding.com/2014/the-essential-guide-to-hindu-weddings-introduction
http://www.weddingdetails.com/lore-tradition/hindu/