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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rexesq, post: 1516568, member: 5739&quot;]Thank you my friend, My wife is a Sikh and I was raised Catholic (not religiously... we didnt go to church much or anything like that.... I was baptised though) but so it was a VERY memorable wedding which I will always remember fondly. Long wedding process starting days before the actual marriage itself, involving the painting of the henna on the bride&#039;s hands, forearms and feet, as well as some other rituals, all quite sacred and some complex and hard to remember, then at the wedding I had to wear a turban as did my father, since one has to cover one&#039;s hair when in a Gurdwara (Sikh Temple). There, everything is read in Punjabi, a language I know two words of.... literally.... two.... so I had to take cues from her and her father as to when to stand, bow, etc.... very confusing for an American.</p><p>&nbsp;I got to wear an amazing dark dark purple wedding suit, along with &#039;aladdin&#039; style shoes, as people have called them, to go with my wife&#039;s beautiful anarkele (sp?) an Indian style suit with a dress type of flair and dupatta(head scarf) which was a dark purple/dark green theme, her older sister spent many nights awake sewing crystals onto the lace sleeves of her suit, as well as the dupatta. My wife also wore the bindi(dot on forehead Indians wear) and had green crystals going from the bindi over her eyebrows to either side, as well as a larger nose ring than usual, she usual just has a small citroen stud (which I LOVE) not a big fan of the larger rings though.... but she looked amazing. I would post photos, but she is quite private and would surely not appreciate her photograph being shown to people she does not know. If I can find some of myself in the turban and Sherwani(Indian Male wedding suit) I will post.</p><p><br /></p><p>Quite an experience, truly the most interesting, and happiest time of my ENTIRE life, sadly though, a week or two after arriving (we had the wedding in Singapore, my wife&#039;s family lives in Kuala Lumpur, so long flight) I got sick, and was diagnosed with having two ear infections!!! Ugh! So I had to go to the local Malaysian hospital to get diagnosed, my ears had been hurting and feeling very uncomfortable and weird.... Thankfully at <u>QUALITY</u> Malaysian Hospitals, they have very good care and some damn smart and well educated doctors, who were very helpful(also luckily for me, my mother-in-law is a nurse at that hospital, so that made me feel much much calmer, I think I&#039;d have been very worried being at at a Malaysian hispital, not understanding people talking to eachother in other languages... Malay, Tamil, Hindi, Chinese..... et cetera, but my wife was there thank God, and my Sister-in-law, whom I just love, so they all did a great job of keeping me as calm as possible considering the situation) after the infection was gone I felt better but my ears never felt normal for at least a month after returning to the USA.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was&nbsp; there for almost 2 months for the wedding etc. So after the infection cleared I still had a few weeks before the wedding ceremonies, thank the Lord. </p><p>Indian weddings, especially Punjabi (Sikh) weddings are amazing! Even though ours was very very small by their standards.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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