{"id":5979,"date":"2013-08-29T05:37:26","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T11:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brovadoweddings.com\/blog\/?p=5979"},"modified":"2018-09-26T10:03:18","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T16:03:18","slug":"indian-wedding-in-minneapolis-gaye-holud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brovadoweddings.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/indian-wedding-in-minneapolis-gaye-holud\/","title":{"rendered":"An Indian Wedding in Minneapolis | Day 1: Gaye Holud \/ Mayon Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThis is one of the most fun Minnesota weddings I’ve ever photographed!\u00a0 Since Rosina’s family is from India and Matt’s is from the United States, this couple decided to have a wedding that incorporated many elements of both Indian and American wedding traditions.\u00a0 All in all, the festivities lasted for THREE FULL DAYS, and I was lucky enough to participate in all of them – photographing their Gaye Holud (or Mayon) ceremony at Rosina’s father’s home, their Mehndi celebration on the eve of their wedding, and the wedding day itself, which featured a traditional American wedding ceremony and a lavish and elaborately colorful Indian wedding reception at the Depot in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n

During the Gaye Holud (also called the Mayon), Rosina was dressed by her family members in traditional clothing and jewelry.\u00a0 Her hands and feet had already been ornately decorated with henna.\u00a0 Once she was ready, she and her family waited for Matt to arrive.\u00a0 When he entered the house, he was visibly stunned by her beauty (so cute!), and wrapped her in a sweet embrace in front of the whole family.\u00a0 Soon afterwards, more guests arrived and made a grand entrance complete with drums, dancing, and a musical procession.\u00a0 The whole family joined in the dancing, and then they led Rosina and Matt to sit down in chairs so they could each greet them in turn by spoon feeding them sweets and rubbing turmeric on their skin, as is Mayon tradition.\u00a0 As you can see by the wedding photos, this part might have gotten a little out of hand…<\/p>\n

I enjoyed being a part of this tradition very much, and I hope you enjoy the pictures!\u00a0 Please share them with your friends by posting this link to Facebook or Twitter!\u00a0 And be sure to stay tuned for parts two, three and four of this elaborate Indian wedding in Minneapolis! Coming soon… Part 2: Mehndi Celebration,<\/a> and parts 3 and 4: the wedding ceremony<\/a> and wedding reception<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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This is one of the most fun Minnesota weddings I’ve ever photographed!\u00a0 Since Rosina’s family is from India and Matt’s is from the United States, this couple decided to have a wedding that incorporated many elements of both Indian and American wedding traditions.\u00a0 All in all, the festivities lasted for THREE FULL DAYS, and I...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":20671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pp_embeds":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[109,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-destination_wedding_photography","category-wedding_pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brovadoweddings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brovadoweddings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brovadoweddings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brovadoweddings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brovadoweddings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5979"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.brovadoweddings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20679,"href":"https:\/\/www.brovadoweddings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5979\/revisions\/20679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brovadoweddings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brovadoweddings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brovadoweddings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brovadoweddings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}