When faculty sweethearts Tanvi Geetha Ravishankar and Tushar Mehta determined to tie the knot in 2016, they didn’t simply get married as soon as, however thrice: a Kannadiga-style wedding ceremony in her hometown Bengaluru, a Marwari-style one in his hometown Jodhpur and a white wedding ceremony in Mumbai the place they stay. However every ceremony had a contemporary twist: there was no groom main a ‘baraat’ and each arrived on the venue collectively on a carriage; no ‘kanyadaan’ which is the Hindu equal of giving the bride away; and the shlokas have been modified to convey equal obligations relatively than the groom’s superiority. As an alternative of a sindoor and mangalsutra, they each received their wedding ceremony date tattooed on their ring finger.
Like Tanvi and Tushar, a rising variety of {couples} are tweaking custom in order that the wedding ceremonies replicate a union of equals relatively than the one-sided skew in direction of the “boy’s facet”.
