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Indian Baraat Ceremony

Here's a photo I took at an Indian Baraat Ceremony in Austin, Texas.

 

A Baraat is an Indian Hindu wedding. The ceremony starts with the groom arriving on either a horse or an elephant. A horse is being used here since it's hard to rent an elephant in Texas, but easy to rent a horse.

 

By the way, the attractive young woman leading the horse is NOT the bride, but just the owner of the horse.

 

The Percheron incidentally is moonlighting from it's regular job as a carriage horse in downtown Austin.

 

Shot using Kodak Gold 100 speed film in Oct09.

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Uploaded on March 28, 2010
Taken on March 28, 2010