How colorful marriage is in India?

Hey friend I Stay in Bangalore. In karnataka there are slight difference in the wedding due to geographical influence but I will describe it in general. 1. Once the wedding is fixed then a day will be set when the two families gather together with few close relatives and friends and read out the wedding date time it means the boy and girl is engaged but now a days it has become compulsory of ring exchange. 2. 11 days before the wedding day a pooja is performed to god at both girl's and boy's house seperately its called as "Naandhi" to pray the god to not to bring in any discrepancies during the marraige. 3. Previous day of the wedding some times same day of wedding depends on the wedding time bride's family welcomes groom's family with flowers fruits and auspicious things like turmeric,kumkum, beetlenuts and many more things. 4. bride and groom recieve their wedding dresses and jewels from each other's family. 5. Next day morning wedding starts with a small pooja to lord Ganesh. 6. And then starts a small drama called "Kaashi Yatre" where the boy says that he will go to kaashi and become sanyasi since he is still unmarried and then his going to be father in law convinces him to marry his daughter. Not sure why this is in practice but it has become a custom. 7. Then both the girl and boy are brought to wedding mantap with a pardha inbetween them( 2 generations before bride and groom never use to see each other until they are in wedding mantap) then there will be chanting of few shlokas which will be in sanskrit. Also there is a custom of "jeerige bella" where both the bride and groom will hold jeera and jaggery in their hands once the pardha is dropped they are suppose to put it on each other. its believed that whoever puts in first will be the dominative. 8. Then they both exchange garlands. and the guy will put mangal sutra to girl and all the elder people bless them with "akshathe" prepared from rice and turmeric. 9. Then boy will put her the toe rings and they will take seven steps with seven oaths and then "lajja homa" a havan is performed in which the girl's brother also should take place and pray for his sister's happy life. 10. Now a days recptions are held on the evening. 11. Then there will be a custom of sending the girl to her husband's house which will be more sentimental to her and her parents. 12. Next day the newly weds will perform "Sathyanarayana pooja" at the guys home. I have seen all these customs and even part of it during my wedding.. My granny use to say during her wedding it was like 8 days customs not sure what are they. now days the weddings are becoming too short n finish off just in a day.

With weddings no longer confined to churches and registry offices I have been to weddings on rooftops, hillsides, and county town halls. Some people even get married underwater. The diversity of weddings is very wide now.