Ladies Sangeet

On the morning of 15th February, Nidhi´s family came to the house with gifts and after a ceremony we all danced to drums in the court yard.

Chris & Utkarsh

Nidhi´s cousin & brother

After the lunch, we continued with the dance practice and in the late afternoon we went to the location for the final rehearsal. For this, we also wore the base-caps and jackets with hoods to complete our outfit that was quite warm especially with temperatures around 30 degrees.
We returned home to dress up in sarees, selwar kameez and ....

Chris, Sankalp, Seema

Kittu, Chris, Dimpy

Ladies Sangeet could be compared a little bit to a German "Polterabend" or wedding-eve party. Basically, both families come together in banquet hall or similar and there is a lot of singing and dancing from all participants. In our case, there were more than 20 performances - some classical Indian dances, some more Bollywood-Style.

Desi Girls

After all the performances from friends and family members, finally the bride Nidhi entered the stage for her own dance. After some minutes she is joined by the groom Sankalp. Both had hard trainings every morning to show off their savvy:

The stage performance finished with a lovely & tasty cake which I could not get enough of. Around the sangeet site there were a lot of food stalls with food from all over India and also a live-pasta cook with two version: "Italian delight" or "Indian Spice" - I tried both, but got a second and third serving from the first:-).

After midnight we returned home and changed clothes and continued the party in Pinku's room and re-designed his wall into a piece of art.

Chris, Sankalp, Guddi, Rishi, Kittu, ...