We both come from different religious and cultural backgrounds, and it was important to us to celebrate all our religious and cultural wedding traditions! Our wedding will include all the elements of a traditional Hindu and Catholic wedding. Below you will find more detail about what that will entail. - Hindu Ceremony - | Baraat | While riding a traditionally adorned horse, the groom will lead a procession of friends and family outside the banquet entrance as they dance and cheer in anticipation for the marriage ceremony. This aspect of the hindu wedding represents the groom’s family traveling together to the bride’s home where Hindu weddings traditionally take place. | Milni | The bride’s family welcomes the groom’s family in the banquet hall foyer. This represents the bride’s family welcoming the groom and his family into “their home”, where the wedding will be held. At this time, light refreshments will also be served. | Ceremony | A traditional north Indian Hindu ceremony will be led by the Pundit (priest). | Vidai | This is the last part of the Hindu wedding. It symbolizes the bride’s family bidding an emotional farewell to the bride and she leaves to begin a new chapter in her life with her husband. - Catholic Ceremony - | Marriage Ceremony | Traditional Christian Catholic Ceremony led by Parish Preist