Do we really want big fat weddings or have we just been made to believe we do? Weddings have become a status symbol and have thus lost the sanctity of being a private intimate affair.

Actor Dia Mirza refused to hold the Kanyadaan ceremony and also had a female priest to officiate her wedding. Here are some instances Indian brides refused follow outdated wedding stereotypes:

Yami Gautam marriage photos are setting new goals in what Indian weddings look like without PR-stage managers and a make-up crew touching up your face at intervals.

Big fat Indian weddings are supposed to be a touchstone of what a wholesome ceremony looks like. But what kind of difficulty does it breed?

My parents might forgive me for killing my younger sibling but they won’t forgive me for wanting a court marriage!. In case you too want to convince your parents for a simple court marriage instead of a grand Indian wedding, here is a list of reasons I could think of by far.

Don’t get me wrong, our excesses have soared to a point where such an intervention is essential, no doubt about that. But in the long run, like Swacch Bharat, we need a campaign to sensitised citizens, to drill some ecological awareness in everyone.

Vaishnavi Prasad’s tweets didn’t target religious pratices, but they do however raise the question on how we have fattened the weddings in this country.

Two recent high-profile wedding celebrations have brought the extravagance that is “big fat Indian wedding” to the world’s attention. With the West showing its disbelief at how lavish, oh and also wasteful, Indian weddings are, it feels like it is time to draw the line at our excesses when it comes to celebrating nuptials. At […]

This Bengal Couple Organises Blood Donation on their wedding day. When Bengal-based Sandip Roy, 31 and Sreela Mondal, 25, decided to get hitched on Feb 8, a big fat Indian wedding was definitely not on their minds. Instead, the couple organised a blood donation camp where the couple and other guests donated blood. The idea behind […]