November 06, 2005
‘I was a Gujarati bride for Halloween’Fashion
The NYT weddings section tells us of a Manhattan bride whose wedding two days before Halloween had a costume ball theme. The bride’s costume: an American wedding dress and the forehead decorations you see on Gujarati brides. And sometimes elephants. How cool is that — Halloween with a twist of commitment, a.k.a. singleton Kryptonite 
The couple were married on Oct. 29 before 126 friends and family in what they called an “antiwedding”- a costume gala. Guests arrived at Studio 450, a loft in New York, wearing top hats, Egyptian headdresses and masks glittering with feathers and rhinestones. The bride’s father dressed as Zorro. The bride and bridegroom came as - surprise! - a bride and bridegroom. Candles and rose petals were scattered throughout the space… [Link]
The groom is apparently an honorary desi:
… [The groom works at] a computer software firm in New York… A few months into their relationship Mr. O’Donnell got Ms. Schaffer a PlayStation and they spent entire days playing “Final Fantasy X” and “The Sims…” [Link]
Umm, yeah, sounds familiar. Wallace and Gromit also made their presence felt:
… the wedding “cake” was served: a five-tiered wonder made up of five different types of cheese. [Link]
manish on November 6, 2005 11:24 AM in Fashion · T·r·a·c·k·b·a·c·k address · Direct link · Email post
Dude...I am amazed at how you have managed to pull a Desi connection out of this one :)
She must've had a friend in grade school that rocked the "Indian Princess" costume. Remember those? Your mom didn't feel like buying you a costume one year and suggested you put on the sparkly lengha you wore to your cousin's wedding and she'd buy you a crown from Party City... :) And, evidently, everyone in school always fell for it... :) Excellent...
ewww...
i wouldnt marry a leopard in a hat! gross.
That's a guest, and what have you got against big game in top hats? ;)
I went to a Halloween wedding in high school, for my old babysitter. The date had signifigance to the bride because it was her grandma's birth or death or something. She wore a velvet green Renaissance -style gown and had crazy braided hair, and there was a trumpeter and a bagpipe player, and all the guests had to come in costume. It was the coolest wedding I ever saw, up until last summer's New Orleans swamp adventure, with airboat rides and a frozen daquiri machine and 100 lbs of crawfish. ;)
manish [a.k.a. manoj to the indian press], i mostly have a thing against top hats. the leopard man... i'd do him. but sans top hat.
hehe.
incidently, your pictures on your blog? are AMAZING! you're very talented.
Thanks!
what are you talking about, i'm still an indian princess for halloween! ;) jk