Mandar's Wedding

Mandar was kind enough to invite me to his wedding along with hundreds of his other closest friends and family. We spent the entire weekend preparing as if it were for prom: we bought saris, had blouses stitched, bargained (not very successfully) for bangles and sandals in Charminar, found sparkly necklaces in Shilparamam, and had henna painted on our hands and feet.



We found a site with instructions on how to wear a sari but in the end we definitely needed help. The woman who cleans our apartment came over and dressed us, put flowers in our hair and bindis on our forehead. Our security guard commented 'Now you are real Indian women!'