Rajesh-s Wedding in the village...

I'm cutting and pasting the following from an email to Sampat:

We (all the SIDH staffers) went to Rajesh's wedding last week... which was pretty sweet. The night before, myself, Mahdev (one of the teachers, and Joanna and Jay (the two Americans) got to Rajesh's house... for the mehndhi. The next day, the wedding was in the girl's gaam in the day time, and the reception was at Rajesh's gaam in the night. They both live btwn. rishikesh and haridwar. Overall, the wedding was pretty similar to normal Hindu weddings.. little differences here and there... it was a "Garhwali" wedding. I saw a dowry for the first time.... after the wedding.... they started bringing out all this stuff... furniture, coaches, TV, refrigerator, etc., and a cow! haha... All part of the dowry... very interesting. At the reception, there was DJ-dancing after dinner with Hindi, Garhwali, and Bhangra music... we only stayed for 15-20 minutes, since we were making the drive all the way back to Kempty that same night. Good times...

You can see pics on ofoto...