{"id":4887,"date":"2014-05-06T07:24:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T11:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/whitehindu\/?p=4887"},"modified":"2015-03-13T22:32:08","modified_gmt":"2015-03-14T02:32:08","slug":"the-big-fat-indian-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/whitehindu\/2014\/05\/the-big-fat-indian-wedding\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big Fat Indian Wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>You guys know how much I love wedding blogs and wedding stories. One of my favorite sites is <a href=\"http:\/\/thebigfatindianwedding.com\/2014\/ambaa-brads-epic-hindu-scottish-wedding-maryland\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Big Fat Indian Wedding<\/a>. As much as the big sites are great, they struggle to get weddings that aren\u2019t western focused and so I like going to sites that are specific to Indian weddings. It\u2019s also nice to have a site where the vendors and articles are focused on helping you throw an Indian wedding. They even have a series of posts on the<a href=\"http:\/\/thebigfatindianwedding.com\/2014\/the-essential-guide-to-hindu-weddings-introduction\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\"> essentials for throwing a Hindu wedding<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It took me a while to gather my thoughts when Preeti offered a space for me to have my wedding there. So that\u2019s why it nine months after my wedding that it is appearing on her site!<\/p>\n<p>She wrote such a lovely introduction and I\u2019m so honored to be called a \u201cfamous\u201d blogger! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Check out the post here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thebigfatindianwedding.com\/2014\/ambaa-brads-epic-hindu-scottish-wedding-maryland\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/thebigfatindianwedding.com\/2014\/ambaa-brads-epic-hindu-scottish-wedding-maryland<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You guys know how much I love wedding blogs and wedding stories. One of my favorite sites is The Big Fat Indian Wedding. As much as the big sites are great, they struggle to get weddings that aren\u2019t western focused and so I like going to sites that are specific to Indian weddings. 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