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In reply to the discussion: My big, fancy, fish-filled, blingy, smokey, loud, crowded Indian wedding ceremony (pics) [View all]Recursion
(56,582 posts)45. There's a large enough Anglo population in Kolkata still that it's not "exotic" to them
A lot of people don't know that, but there are still about a million Anglo-Indians living in the subcontinent, mostly in Mumbai, Madras, and Kolkata; anybody who went to school pre-Independence would have been brought up with English education, too. They did find our idea of having the US wedding on a boat kind of neat. We brought a DVD to them but I forgot that India is PAL; fortunately there's conversion software available on Linux...
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My big, fancy, fish-filled, blingy, smokey, loud, crowded Indian wedding ceremony (pics) [View all]
Recursion
Dec 2013
OP
Hissyspit, I thought of the Seinfeld episode. Elaine was so drunk and funny.
Enthusiast
Dec 2013
#13
Congratulations and thanks for sharing this. Beautiful and educational too.
live love laugh
Dec 2013
#19
Congratulations! What a great documentary of one of the most important days of your life!
Adsos Letter
Dec 2013
#35
There's a large enough Anglo population in Kolkata still that it's not "exotic" to them
Recursion
Dec 2013
#45
very interesting. your wife is very pretty. you look almost naked during the ceremony
Liberal_in_LA
Dec 2013
#62
Many congratulations and blessings. What a wonderful ceremony. Thank you for sharing it.
nolabear
Dec 2013
#65
I accidentally clicked on DU Lounge instead of GD and saw this..absolutely awesome!
DeschutesRiver
Dec 2013
#88