A Colombian in Wonderful Wedding in India

 
I don’t remember the last time when I saw the cartoon “Aladdin and his Wonderful Lamp”. However, I remember that the genie could provide only three wishes to the lamp´s owner Aladdin. One of Aladdin's wishes was falling in love with the princess Jasmine. Although the genie couldn´t fulfill this desire with magic, he was able to assist the princess, love. As in almost all Disney movies, the end of the story has a perfect finale, with wonderful music, beautiful colors, and everybody happy, celebrating the wedding between the prince and the princess. This magical conclusion seems to only happen in Disney movies.

However, almost one year ago, I had to attend to a wedding in Mumbai, India, where the fiction of cartoons became reality. It was a wedding for almost 800 guests. I had never imagined that a wedding in India could be so spectacular. All the women were dressed in beautiful Sarees with their hands painted with black and red inks. The bride was dressed in one of the most beautiful striking dresses that I have ever seen. There were two main colors in the bride´s dress, yellow symbolizing the prosperity of the couple, and red representing fertility. The groom wore a turban with a veil of flowers streaming down in front of his face to protect him from evil spirits.

Besides the beautiful dresses and decorations, what was really amazing was the amount of symbolism used in Indian weddings. After the wedding, the groom's father threw flower petals on the newlyweds. Furthermore, one of the most awesome aspects of the wedding was the temple where the couple made promise to love each other for the rest of their lives. In this sanctuary love is everywhere. Decorated with white roses and a hundreds of lights, the shrine looked like the representation of heaven on earth.

I can say with confidence that any Colombian woman would like to have a Indian weeding, where the magic of Disney becomes a reality.