‘I was a Gujarati bride for Halloween’

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The NYT weddings section tells us of a Manhattan bride whose wedding two days before Halloween had a costume ball theme. The bride’s costume: an American wedding dress and the forehead decorations you see on Gujarati brides. And sometimes elephants. How cool is that — Halloween with a twist of commitment, a.k.a. singleton Kryptonite

The couple were married on Oct. 29 before 126 friends and family in what they called an “antiwedding”- a costume gala. Guests arrived at Studio 450, a loft in New York, wearing top hats, Egyptian headdresses and masks glittering with feathers and rhinestones. The bride’s father dressed as Zorro. The bride and bridegroom came as – surprise! – a bride and bridegroom. Candles and rose petals were scattered throughout the space… [Link]

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p>The groom is apparently an honorary desi:

… [The groom works at] a computer software firm in New York… A few months into their relationship Mr. O’Donnell got Ms. Schaffer a PlayStation and they spent entire days playing “Final Fantasy X” and “The Sims…” [Link]

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p>Umm, yeah, sounds familiar. Wallace and Gromit also made their presence felt:

… the wedding “cake” was served: a five-tiered wonder made up of five different types of cheese. [Link]

Cheese, Gromit!

8 thoughts on “‘I was a Gujarati bride for Halloween’”

  1. Dude…I am amazed at how you have managed to pull a Desi connection out of this one 🙂

  2. She must’ve had a friend in grade school that rocked the “Indian Princess” costume. Remember those? Your mom didn’t feel like buying you a costume one year and suggested you put on the sparkly lengha you wore to your cousin’s wedding and she’d buy you a crown from Party City… 🙂 And, evidently, everyone in school always fell for it… 🙂 Excellent…

  5. I went to a Halloween wedding in high school, for my old babysitter. The date had signifigance to the bride because it was her grandma’s birth or death or something. She wore a velvet green Renaissance -style gown and had crazy braided hair, and there was a trumpeter and a bagpipe player, and all the guests had to come in costume. It was the coolest wedding I ever saw, up until last summer’s New Orleans swamp adventure, with airboat rides and a frozen daquiri machine and 100 lbs of crawfish. 😉

  6. That’s a guest, and what have you got against big game in top hats? 😉

    manish [a.k.a. manoj to the indian press], i mostly have a thing against top hats. the leopard man… i’d do him. but sans top hat.

    hehe.

    incidently, your pictures on your blog? are AMAZING! you’re very talented.

  8. She must’ve had a friend in grade school that rocked the “Indian Princess” costume. Remember those? Your mom didn’t feel like buying you a costume one year and suggested you put on the sparkly lengha you wore to your cousin’s wedding and she’d buy you a crown from Party City… 🙂 And, evidently, everyone in school always fell for it… 🙂 Excellent…

    what are you talking about, i’m still an indian princess for halloween! 😉 jk