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Welcoming Center, Management and General Chat => Chit Chat => Topic started by: trudy on November 20, 2012, 01:20:18 pm
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Hi everyone well I have been here a few days now and slowly getting into the chaotic life of a wedding home in Jaipur, or the pink city as it's sometimes known. We left Adelaide last Wednesday and flew to KL in Malaysia staying ovrnight before heading on to Delhi the nexxt evening. We arrived 5 hours later and stayed overnight in a lovely Hotel. Our friends had organised a car and driver to meet us at the airport, take us to the hotel and then the next day drive the 5 hours to Jaipur. In Australia it would just take us 2 and a half hours to drive the same distance but with all the traffic, cows, camels, elephants and even some roadworks here it is a much longer journey but great to see the changes ssince wewere last here.
Upon arrival we were greeted with a traditional welcome. Red dye with grains of rice were placed on our forheads, a piecce of sugar given to us to eat and there were ladies there to sing a greeting to us.
The next few days have been full of the starting ceremonies for the wedding. As the groom had not undergone the tradional thread ceremony that would usually happen when he was young as he was at boarding school they decided to do it before he got married. Most of the guests had not seen this performed as it's rare now to be done.
Tomorrow there is to a formal greeting when the brides parents come bringing gifts for the groom and his parents and a formal request for them to be present at the marriage. Unlike us the grooms Mum is not allowed at the marriage but will attend the dinner in the evening. This goes back to when the groom and his attendants rode out to another village or town to get married and Rajputs have continued this custom. Nowsays some women will attend but these are mainly younger ones. Hopefully I will be able to logon again and tell you a little more as we go.
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Hi Trudy how wonderful to hear about a traditional Indian wedding. Thanks for sharing, enjoy!
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Lovely to hear from you Trudy.India sounds very interesting especially the details about the forthcoming wedding ceremony.I look forward to hearing more about your adventures. ;D
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Thought you might like to see some photos of our travels.
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Wow, what an experience. I will look forward to further instalments of your trip if you have the time or opportunity to get ont he computer. Are you related to either the bride or groom? Hope you have a wonderful time over there.
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Trudy, thanks for taking the time to include us all. What an experience.
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What a wonderful experience and so interesting to hear all about the wedding preparations. Thankyou for sharing. :)
Marie
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Lovely for you to update everyone on the forum of your trip trudy... A lovely experience..thanks for sharing 😘
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Wow Trudy, it's interesting to hear about other country's traditions. Sounds like your having a great time. I look forward to reading more of your posts :)
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Hi Trudy, thanks for sharing the photo and details on your trip so far. It's always interesting to hear how things are done in different cultures.
Enjoy the rest of your holiday!
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Thanks Trudy, enjoy the holiday
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Sounds like a wonderful experience Trudy.
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Trudy thank you so much for sharing. Very interesting. Hope we can see some pics of the wedding.
A bit different from Cookie's trip!
Gert
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It sounds wonderful Trudy. It's great to hear firsthand about different traditions.
What an amazing experience. Look forward to further updates and more photos if you have time.
Enjoy the trip and the wedding.
India is on our to do list :D
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Loving hearing all about it.
:)
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Wow sounds awesome Trudy. Bet you are having a blast - and learning alot too. :D
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It's so good how we get to enjoy other members trips. :D
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Thanks for sharing Trudy glad all is well
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I have some colourful photos of a ceremony from Trudy so once I get her permission, I will post them.
Great to see you were able to come on here and share the trip with us all Trudy, it certainly sounds a wonderful experience. Love to see what you are wearing to the wedding.
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Oh, thanks so much for sharing and for the photo. I look forward to seeing more JD!
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I cant wait to see the photos of the bride in the wedding sari! A close friend of mine had a traditional Indian wedding a few years ago, and the outfit the bride wears is breathtaking. She also lent all her female friends saris, so we could all dress traditionally too. I must say, a sari did not look as good on me as it does on Indian women ;D
Glad to hear you are having such a wonderful time trudy. Did all the food you took over there make it and get through customs OK?
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Trudy thanks for sharing. I look forward to seeing the photos Judy has. I do hope you have a fantastic time.
Gert as you said very different to mine. It's good to see something different.
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Trudy is on the forum again at the moment - hope this means that we are going to get another instalment of her trip.
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Hi again, I am not sure if the email that I just sent got there so I appologise if I am resending it. For those who asked no we are not related to anyone here. I have been a friend of the grooms father since I was around 12 and have been lucky to have remained friends. We have been here lots of times and have also attended their daughters weddings. They inturn have visited us in Australia and been out for our daughters weddings. Karen, no we had no trouble bringing in the cheese ect. Waayne did have a slight worry when we saw on the customs form a question asking if we had any seeds or dairy products with us but even though we declared them they didn't seem to care.
The past two days there have been workmen here errecting elaborate shades for todays Tilak ceremony. This will be held this afternoon where the brides brother and parents will come bringing gifts - sweets, jewellery, sari's ect for the groom and his family then high tea will be served. I must take a photo of where we are staying for you. Just hope that these photo's make it this time. These photo's are of the thread ceremony from a couple of days ago.
A pooja or thread ceremony is usually held when a boy is around 5 years of age. This ceremony signifys the starting of his education hence there was a slate and chalk used in the ceremony. After the two hour service at which he was also presented by the guests with food and money to "sustane" him during the 14 days that he goes off by himself into the forest he had to pretend to run away!!!!! Most boys do not go through this today and Aayushman hadn't as he was away at boarding school. So most of the guests that were present hadn't witnessed this pooja before.
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Thanks Judy, looks like the last email I sent made it as well!!!
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That is just wonderful. The thing people most comment on when visiting India is the overwhelming colour . We can see it here. Love it.
Gert.
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You know Gert even the women who seem to do most of the manual work over here wear brightly coloured sari's while they are working. The men seem to spend their time laying on hamocks and drinking tea!!!!!
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You know Gert even the women who seem to do most of the manual work over here wear brightly coloured sari's while they are working. The men seem to spend their time laying on hamocks and drinking tea!!!!!
Made me laugh out loud. That is so true. You are having a great time. Lovely.
Gert
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Thought you might like to see where we are staying. One of the photo's shows the shades that have been errected for todays ceremony and the other is the flowers being changed at the front door.
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How beautiful, it is so colourful;D
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Amazing. What an experience.
Gert
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Have to agree, the colours are beautiful.
Thank you Trudy, a truly wonderful experience.
Marie
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Trudy - thanks so much for sharing this wonderful experience with all of us! It must be all just breathtaking!!! how special it is to have maintained that friendship of yours with the groom's father over the years! :)
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What an incredible experience. I bet the sounds and smells are equally as amazing. I love sharing everyone's holidays.
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Wow Trudy what a wonderful trip you are having. The colors are so vibrant. Thank you for sharing with us.
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Loving seeing the colors - bright colors always seem so happy! :)
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fantastic photos and experience trudy, thanks for taking the time to share it with us. You are very fortunate to have sustained the friendship for so long and for both your families to have experienced such diverse cultures to their own.
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Lovely photos Trudy thanks for sharing
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Thought I would send you some more photo's from the Tilak & Lagan ceremony that was held yesterday. This is when the brides brother brings gifts for the groom. Today a relation of the groomswill take gifts for the bride. After this they held a high tea then there was dancing, drinking and dinner although I don't believe too many ate dinner as they had all drunken too much.
The photo of the grooms nephew tells a thousand words - he was fed up with it all!!!!!
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Ha ha. That photo of the little boy is priceless !
It looks like an amazing experience. Keep us updated.
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Thanks Trudy, it makes our weddings look like a walk in the park - do all of the people over there adhere to this tradition, what if the family is poor for example?
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Loving your trip and photos Trudy.
DH and I hope to do a big tour of India next year.
Love experiencing different t cultures and your posts and photos bring India to life on my iPad..
Thank you so muh for sharing and look forward to more ;
Am I greedy? ;D ;D ;D
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Thank you for the lovely photos Trudy, a wonderful experience
Marie
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Yes Judy, in some shape or another. These people are Rajput's and members of Jaipur's royal family so it's important to them to keep up tradition. We have been told that this generation will most probably be the last ones to keep this up though. Our friends daughter told us this morning that when her daughters get married she won't be doing all this, but who know's as it's a long time off.
The wedding its self is a small affair unlike most weddings here. It's being held at the Raj Mahal Palace Hotel which was the home of one of the three wives of the past Maharaja and there has only been 400 people invited.
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Mama Fergie, Please get in contact with me before you come. Some of our friends do take in house guests and I could give you their address ect. We have spent months here so if we can be of help let me know.
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Only 400!!!! My goodness, how many do they normally invite?
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We once went to a wedding in Allalabahd that had over a thousand.
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That's amazing Trudy.
We can't comprehend that number of people at our type of weddings!.
My last one was DS almost 2 years ago and they had 120 people which was more than enough in our culture..
It was lovely though :D
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I may have missed some postings so this question may have come up already.
Do you have Indian family?
I have one SIL who is Indian. In fact my family is very multicultural since leaving Scotland in 1981 :)
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No, we are not related to Indians. I have know the grooms father since I was around 12 and have stayed friends since then - I am now 58!!! We have been lucky to have been able to come to his daughters weddings and several others here as well and they have been to Australia for our daughters.
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What great friendship Trudy and what a cultural experience.
How lucky. :)
We are seriously thinking of India next year or early the following year.
I will certainly contact you once we know our plans.
Your help would be very much appreciated :D
Hope you continue to have a wonderful trip and look forward to hearing all about it ;D
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Trudy thank you for all the photos. The colour is so beautiful. It is nice to see that little ones the world over are the same, they become bored with whatever is going on.. Beautiful photos.
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Hi, well the wedding is now over so thought I would send you a quick peak of the day. The first photo is the groom and his youngest nephew leaving his home on a horse. The second is once they and another nephew have climbed onto an elephant for the last part of the journey to the hotel where the marriage is to take place.
The next one is the bride arriving for the ceremony - she is wearing a lannga which is traditional Rajistani dress of a long skirt, blouse and a veil. It was very heavily beaded with blue peacocks. The last one was taken at the dinner in the evening. The bride had changed into a red lannga for the evening.
Unlike Australian weddings here no one watches the service. They are tucked away in a corner and the guests just go on eating and drinking.
At the dinner in the evening the bride and groom sit on a podium where they receive good wishes from the guests before mingling a little.
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I know it has been said before but the colors are truly amazing. What a magical day you must have had. What sort of dishes were served at the dinner?
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Stunning photos Trudy :) It has been a joy following your posts :-*
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Amazing photos Trudy :D
What a wonderful insight into Rajasthan .
Your photos bring it to life. It's like something out of a movie.
Thank you so much. I can't wait to go to India :D
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Hi Moptop, At all the lunch & dinners for the wedding there has been a buffet. We try not to eat at these affairs because they use outside people to cater for the functions and it's a sure way to get sick if you are going to. The food for the wedding night was a large mixture of traditional Indian food - both meats and vegetables - at most Indian weddings meat would not be served. There was also pasta dishes and pizzas then icecreams, and Indian sweetmeats. Lots of different fruit drinks, yoghurt drinks, tea & coffee as well as lots and lots of alchol. These people just love their spirits as well as beer!!!!!
Yesterday the bride arrived here to officially meet all the grooms relatives and to stay the night. The bed was decorated with strings of flowers and I will put up a photo later. They are going to leave in a couple of days but it has been nice meeting and getting to know her - such a lovely girl and although it's an arranged marriage they have been engaged for a year and know each other so well and are very much in love!!!
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Beautiful photos Trudy, I have learned so much. Thank you
Marie
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Thank you for all this wonderful information Trudy and amazing photos.
I am really enjoying your trip and experiences. :)
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Gosh an arranged marriage. That is interesting, lovely to read that they are in love too.
I do love the photos, especially of the elephant.
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What a lovely experience Trudy ! Gorgeous photos !
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Hi everyone, yesterday got out and about and visited a couple places. The first photo was taken on the road to Amber Fort which is about 11kms from Jaipur. The next is the Lake palace which because they have had so much rain this year the first two stories are under water. We then returned to Jaipur to the City Palace. The pink building is the Palace of the Winds which was built so that the ladies of the court could look out and see what was happening and the last one is of an artist from the city palace.
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Trudy those are places that we so want to visit.
Don't know why but no photos from this posting showing on my iPad ???
Sounds wonderful :)
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The colour is absolutely amazing.
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Michele are you seeing photos on Trudy's last post.?
None or showing on my iPad a d I have only had 2 glasses of wine :o LOL
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I've just added the photos for Trudy.
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That building is WOW :o And what a talented artist! Thank you so much for sharing all the photos Trudy :-*
Michele are you seeing photos on Trudy's last post.?
None or showing on my iPad a d I have only had 2 glasses of wine :o LOL
LOL ;D
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Thanks for the laughing Amy ;D
I am laughing now too
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;D MF, I was thinking the same thing and I didn't have any wine
Beautiful photos
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Glad I wasn't the only one Suzanne. 8)
I was thinking why can't I see what the others can see LOL
And I did only have two glasses ;D
Gorgeous photos Trudy and you ave just brought to life the places that I gave been reading about and really want to visit,
Thank you sooooo much ;)
I can't wait to go :)
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India sounds like a very interesting and mystical place to visit. Love your photos trudy.
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Thanks so much for's posting the photo's Judy. One day we seem to get good wifi and the next - or when I want to use it it just doesn't work, hence no photo's!!!!!
Glad you are enjoying the photo's we leave here on Saturday so not much longer now till we head for Penang.
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Oohh, Penang, that should be good. :)
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Fabulous photos! What a good looking man the groom is! Did no one else notice?
The colours are just outrageous, so much red and yellow. Thanks for taking the time to send us all on the virtual trip to India, trudy.
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Still loving the vibrancy of the place shown in the photos, thanx so much for sharing, Trudy. :-*
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Thanks again for sharing your travels Trudy, beautiful photos :)
Marie
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Thanks Trudy. Travel safely.
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Well we are at the tail end of our trip. We arrived in Penang, an island of the Malaysian coast a few days back and have just been chilling out. It's 9 years since we were last here and there has been a lot of changes. Yesterday Wayne and I attended a cooking demo at the hotel. We were the only ones that attended and the chef showed us how to make Penang Char Koay Teow. This is flat rice noodles to which he added a sauce, prawns, squid, beansprouts, beaten egg and garlic chives. I have the recipe if anyone wants it. I have included a photo of him making it (only took 7 minutes) and also the finished dish. The other two were taken at the hotel.
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Trudy - that sounds wonderful! How long are you staying in Penang? I'd love a copy of the recipe when you have the time! Thank you! :D
Travel safely!!
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Trudy glad to hear you arrived safely in Penang after your amazing trip in India.
Can I ask what hotel you are staying in as DH and I are taking all of our family to Singapore and either Penang or Club Med Bintan in April for 11 nights combined. A few of them don't want to do club med so looking like it may be Penang.
We have looked at Shangri la and Golden Sands as they both have good facilities for all the children.
Would appreciate your opinion :)
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It does look nice Trudy. Another holiday almost over, thanks for sharing the trip with us.
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Thanks for sharing the trip trudy, the photos have been fantastic. Safe travels.
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Thanks for sharing your trip with us Trudy - it sounds like you had a great time!
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It always amazes me how Trudy remembers so much when visiting a place... I only take in about 40 percent?? :)