11 – 12 October 2013 Delhi Engagement Party and Wedding

We drove from Glenburn Tea Estate early morning 10 October for Bagdogra Airport around 100 kilometres away to fly to Delhi. The purpose of visiting Delhi was to attend a Sikh wedding at the invitation of an Australian friend who was closely connected to the wedding couple’ family.

We arrived in Delhi later that afternoon.  The next day we toured Delhi and visited a number of famous forts, the Delhi embassy area, the presidential palace area and the Victory arch (Delhi Gate). Delhi proved to be very very busy and somewhat dirty city with enormous traffic volumes with what appeared to us to be rather loose road rules. Crossing the road outside our hotel was distinct hazard with every likelihood that we would be taken out if we were silly enough to cross at the same time a car approached.

We knew that the wedding ceremony would be lavish and extend over a number of days but we had not idea that it would be as lavish as it turned out. The first night we attended the engagement party which included live music, dancing, cocktails and far too much food. The next day we attended the wedding which again included far too much food.

We felt very privileged to have shared in the glamour and ceremony of an Indian Sikh wedding over the last two days. At the engagement party we ate and drank ourselves silly and later at the wedding ceremony we ate ourselves silly. Our aim was to lose weight on this trip not put it on but what the heck it is a holiday.