Across the way from our condo balcony we can see the shining lights at the Sheraton hotel, and hear the loud music just beckoning to us as we stare, longingly at a paradise we can only view from afar...or can't we? Sunday afternoon while swimming we came across some guests who where staying to attend an wedding that evening, well it'd been going on for several days (months before hand) and they invited us that evening to share in the cultural experience. How could we pass it up? Knowing they always run late, we didn't plan on reaching the ceremony until 10pm, as we where getting ready thunderous claps of loud noises where rumbling through our building 500 yards or so down the beach, we RAN across and up three floors to a sky filled with glowing embers. Fireworks beyond your imagination ignited in the sky for quite the show which ended as several red lanterns floated down from the sky like jellyfish. It was time to get our dancing legs over there! Hopped the fence, in a long dress nonetheless, and walked in on what was the most extravagant display of celebration i may have seen to this day with my own eyes. The entire courtyard was filled with satin covered chairs and table, a stage, a grand buffet of all Indian dishes mixed with Thai deserts, an intricately adorned altar with viewing benches where scented wooden fans where spread to cool oneself. Fruity drinks where served to us free of charge. As the ceremony was taking place, the couple looking gorgeous as ever, surrounded by the jewels and finery of all of the women's saris a troupe of Thai dancers performed to Indian music. It was beautiful to witness the multi-cultural quality of this wedding. Embracing all of the different nationality wedding guests, welcoming a decent handful of study abroad students, Thai culture and Indian culture. The food was to die for, i am officially, as if i weren't before, in LOVE with all varieties of flatbread! I was amazed once again by the hospitality of a culture that was not my own. Can you imagine feeding and giving open drink to 20 additional guests?
09 February 2010
Indian Wedding
Across the way from our condo balcony we can see the shining lights at the Sheraton hotel, and hear the loud music just beckoning to us as we stare, longingly at a paradise we can only view from afar...or can't we? Sunday afternoon while swimming we came across some guests who where staying to attend an wedding that evening, well it'd been going on for several days (months before hand) and they invited us that evening to share in the cultural experience. How could we pass it up? Knowing they always run late, we didn't plan on reaching the ceremony until 10pm, as we where getting ready thunderous claps of loud noises where rumbling through our building 500 yards or so down the beach, we RAN across and up three floors to a sky filled with glowing embers. Fireworks beyond your imagination ignited in the sky for quite the show which ended as several red lanterns floated down from the sky like jellyfish. It was time to get our dancing legs over there! Hopped the fence, in a long dress nonetheless, and walked in on what was the most extravagant display of celebration i may have seen to this day with my own eyes. The entire courtyard was filled with satin covered chairs and table, a stage, a grand buffet of all Indian dishes mixed with Thai deserts, an intricately adorned altar with viewing benches where scented wooden fans where spread to cool oneself. Fruity drinks where served to us free of charge. As the ceremony was taking place, the couple looking gorgeous as ever, surrounded by the jewels and finery of all of the women's saris a troupe of Thai dancers performed to Indian music. It was beautiful to witness the multi-cultural quality of this wedding. Embracing all of the different nationality wedding guests, welcoming a decent handful of study abroad students, Thai culture and Indian culture. The food was to die for, i am officially, as if i weren't before, in LOVE with all varieties of flatbread! I was amazed once again by the hospitality of a culture that was not my own. Can you imagine feeding and giving open drink to 20 additional guests?
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