Hotel: Fairmont 510 Market Street, Pittsburgh - Block under Punjal-Scarola Wedding Sangeet: March 28th, 2025 Fairmont (exact timing coming) Wedding: March 29th, 2025 - The Art Room 2010 Smallman St, Pittsburgh, PA 15222-4428 (exact timing coming) Brunch: March 30th: Fairmont 9:30-11:30
Pittsburgh International Airport, the hotel is about 23~ min drive.
We welcome everyone to wear traditional Indian or South Asian clothing or Western clothing to any of the events, it is your preference and everything is welcomed. For the Sangeet you can wear anything you may wear to a typical "rehearsal dinner". For those who are interested in wearing traditional South Asian clothing (Saree, Lehenga, Kurta, Sherwani etc.), feel free to wear any color of your choosing, except all cream, white or black, as we would love to see everyone in color and white is a color associated with mourning. But if your outfit has spots of neutrals, that is perfectly acceptable!
We will provide more details as the wedding gets closer, but for a Hindu wedding ceremony, it is conducted by a priest in a Mandap (canopy with four pillars). The priest chants prayers and the bride and groom go around a central fire four or seven times. Then they take seven steps together with vows to support each other in their married life. The ceremony lasts about an 90 minutes. There will be refreshments served during the ceremony. Unlike many wedding ceremonies, you can get up, have a snack and come back, it is not disrespectful.
The Sangeet is a celebration that occurs before the wedding. Often the families come together to sing and dance. Sangeet means in Sanskrit for "sung together". Come hungry for dinner and ready to spend time together before the big day with us!
Gifts are completely optional, we just want to celebrate with you!