It's all happening!!!

     So I leave for India in a month and a half and I'm getting so excited. It's all so real. My best friend, my mother, my brother, and a dear family friend will be accompanying D and I to India to par take in our cultural union. It's so weird to be simultaneously talking on skype with mother in law about the different trim colors on my wedding Sari and also to answer my phone and have Davids Bridal say my white veil came in.


     Everyone who knows me has always said it would take someone VERY unique and different to catch my eye and get married. Well I think a wedding in India, wearing red, and having swirly henna designs up to my elbows is unique and different enough for me =) Is it wrong that I am more excited for the India wedding than the American one? Once you see the wedding preparations for a Hindu wedding you feel kinda Blah about the white 20 minute, "I do" we have here in America. In Hindu wedding's there are flowers of all colors EVERYWHERE, garlands hanging around your neck, and strips of flowers hanging from the walls. The actual vows take HOURS not 20 minutes and it involves fire and red powders and prayers chanted in an ancient language. You eat with your hands from a banana leaf, your feet are bathed in Milk, you wear GOLD! and bangles! Did I mention that our astrological star charts had to be examined by a Priest to find the perfect wedding day? How special, how amazing, all of the thought put into our one day of union. Can it be more movie-like and amazing?


Excited international bride signing off. I have homework to do. Reality sets in. Having two weddings, while getting my Doctorate in Psychology and working part-time is not as easy as you think. But worth every strand of hair loss and stress =)


Namaste!

Our Engagement session in Payson, AZ.

History

So when I was six years old and playing with my barbies, I planned my future wedding. My husband had blond hair, blue eyes and wore a black tuxedo. I was in a white dress with chiming church bells in the background. At that time my ideal wedding never involved flying 24 hours to another country, wearing a red dot on my forehead and a colored Sari but now I couldn't imagine it any other way. I met a boy with brown skin and black hair, he introduced me to the kindest culture and has the best parents and I fell in love.  Now I get to have two weddings with a bunch of fellow animal loving vegetarians. I get to learn another language, see one of the seven wonders of the world and wear COLOR on my wedding day. (Gasp) Welcome to my world. May you Love India and her people through my wonderful experiences.
Namaste