Wedding homecoming bride

Here’s the bride in her homecoming dress. After the wedding, the couple go off on their honeymoon, often only a day or two. After that they have a homecoming party where the bride wears a traditional red sari signifying her “entrance into womanhood” and everyone comes to celebrate this.

 

I don’t know about you guys but there wasn’t any party and I sure didn’t tell my parents about my first nocturnal adventure ; ) I think it’s a lovely tradition that can be hard to understand for us since it’s so different from what we’re used to .

 

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I was invited to another wedding here in Sri Lanka this weekend. It was actually one of the guys who work at the photo development store where I get my photos developed. He liked the shots I’d taken so much that he asked if I wanted to come and photograph his wedding.

 

It was the first wedding that I followed from beginning to end and it was an experience. They do put a lot of effort into it and on the big day, Saturday, we were going from 8am till midnight. The couple must have been up even earlier the first day to get ready and I’m sure they stayed up longer than the rest of us. Then on monday they were at it again with a full day of photographing, filming and party at night for homecoming.

Done