As for me, I took the opportunity this morning to "Backpack in a Sherwani" although I'm moving back to the suit for the evenings festivities. The shoes that came with my outfit were death on my feet, and I'm hoping I'll be able to cut my rug a lot better in my suit shoes. :) We will see shortly. In the meantime, I thought I'd post up a couple early Sherwani pictures for all to see. Hope you enjoy seeing them as much as I enjoyed taking them! (The turban came during the ceremony by the way, and was put on nearly all of the men for the traditional procession around the neighborhood replete with marching band and new groom on horseback.)
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These pics are great! Can you go back and get pics in local garb for all the weddings? =)
Hehe! Anthony, I wish I could.. the weird thing was that most of the weddings I went to didn't have a lot of local garb for men! I missed the Vietnamese engagement party (happened on Christmas) and that's when they wear traditional garb. For the wedding itself, it was almost all western. Same with the Kenyan wedding. I guess the middle class is more similar than not in most places now! Even for the Indian wedding, the men switched into western suits for the night-time banquet. Interesting, no?
Wayne, it was so great to have you at the wedding! The uncles are still doing the snake dance you invented!!!
Also, I didn't know this would be the case, but the ceremonies continued Sat night after the reception (at home), and through late afternoon on Sunday (a priest came over to the house) - apparently we weren't officially married until then!!
In the lines of local garb for men. Here in the Philippines the Barong Tagalog is still quite in fashion for weddings maybe you should include a wedding here so you can go "Backpack in a Barong" ... but dont look at me to be the one get married ... maybe we can crash a Filipino wedding! Ill go scout for some. haha
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