I’m an Indian who lives in the US, and I’m only a teen. Thanks for explaining my culture’s weddings, it was really helpful! :)

@lucifer-sl2uw

3 жыл бұрын

me too 😭 i don’t want to be clueless when i’m getting married

@kobra5490

2 жыл бұрын

I'm getting tought about my own culture by a white guy 😭💀

@AlainMartinez

2 жыл бұрын

@@kobra5490 there you go haha

I'm an Indian and I'm really impressed with the way you have explained our culture so perfectly❤️❤️

@AlainMartinez

2 жыл бұрын

glad you found it useful

I am an Indian. I appreciate this mere clip of you including everything. Much much appreciated 🙏🏻😊

@AlainMartinez

4 жыл бұрын

Glad to know you found it useful Shivani

Very helpful! I'm American and my soon-to-be husband is Indian. This video was helpful for me!

@AlainMartinez

3 жыл бұрын

I'm happy to hear it helped. Congrats on your upcoming wedding.

@pink_mellow4846

3 жыл бұрын

omg ur here too!!

Im american, my best friend is getting married in india the end of next month. Pretty excited and thanks for breaking it down.

I am Puerto Rican who is very much interested in the Indian culture, especially since I am always being mistaken as Indian. I have started watching the Hindi and Punjabi movies and have been trying to learn the language. This explanation is great. But as a photographer, these Shots are FABULOUS. Beautiful. Namaste.

@AlainMartinez

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Ada for the nice comment.

@GreatMan_from_East

2 жыл бұрын

Read being different by Rajiv Malhotra on its like crash course on indian civilisation aspects

These weddings look so amazing. I wish I could have an Indian wedding one day, but I’m not Indian 😢

I have photographed many weddings in my lifetime, I’ve never done an Indian wedding. I was approached for an Indian wedding once, and more than willing to take it, I wanted to be that photographer who was open to anyone and everyone. Until I realized that it was more than one event, and I wasn’t able to schedule it in. Needless to say, she went with someone else.

@AlainMartinez

2 жыл бұрын

next time then. Good luck

The Indian culture sooooo beautiful the wedding traditions and customs are just gorgeous. I would love to be able to attend a wedding like this. Gorgeous

@AlainMartinez

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed very beautiful

I'm going to get married in India and had no clue what's ahead of me.. Thanks so much for this brief explanation!

I love how they truly make the bride soooo beautiful

@AlainMartinez

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed they are

I think you missed something called a haldi ,in which the bride undergoes a traditional facial treatment with turmeric sandal and milk

@AlainMartinez

3 жыл бұрын

Yup, I did. We have covered that many times. Lots of traditions for sure.

As an Indian-American, thanks! I was born and raised pretty non-traditionally here and I only ever attended like one wedding back in India when I was 11, so its nice to get a feel for how it looks and works since I mainly only remember the main ceremony

Can’t wait to be part of this colorful wedding 😊 I see why some are several days not sure what guests will do the whole day, but your info helps thank you 🙏🏼

@AlainMartinez

4 жыл бұрын

I'm glad to hear you found it useful

@IAmNaidu

3 жыл бұрын

tbh you will have a lot of guests of course that stay for every moment of the events and then you will have just as many guest who will show up for a few hours and then leave during. When we did our Haldi ceremony, were on our stage for hours. Then we got to join in on the dancing. Of course when another family member arrived we were back on the stage again for them to smear the haldi (turmeric) paste on us. You will truly love it! There are so many meaning behind very little item. Wait until the marriage ceremony when you dump rice on each others heads. lol We had some fun small traditional games we did during ours.

@rairadio7119

2 жыл бұрын

For Sangeet, both bride and groom side (friends,family) has to prepare dance numbers. On Mehendi you get Mehndi, For Haldi, you smear Haldi on the bride and groom and spend the rest of the time getting ready, eating and recharging.

Indian weddings are so lengthy bcs its a stage of life where the being took thousands of reincarnations and at the end become a human being so its a huge celebration moment like marriage which is said to be last for next 7 lifes ❤

Those eyes! Superbly captured!!!

@AlainMartinez

5 жыл бұрын

Fern Trujillo thank you man

There's a guy in a horse drawn carriage being led by a marching band in the street behind my hotel in New Delhi... thanks for helping me to understand what is happening!

Great video and awesome shots makes me even more pumped for some Indian weddings!!

@AlainMartinez

5 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it guys!

Thanks for the explanation. The photos are just stunning!!!😍😍😍

So helpful. Thanks for doing this!

I appreciate this is my first Hindi wedding and my culture is new to me as a multicultural Indian I love finding out information like this. Thank you!

Thanks for this video! Attending my first Indian wedding this year :)

Thanks for appreciating the Indian culture

Thanks for loving my culture 💕...n i appreciate your way of explaining

@AlainMartinez

2 жыл бұрын

my pleasure

Awesome pics! and really intersting culture !

i love this tradition its lovely

Wow is an excellent video I could learn a lot.

U did an excellent narration of an Indian wedding

I am a non indian bride to be. Thank you for an interesting, informative, fun to watch, short and sweet video of what to expect of an indian wedding. 🙏

Perfect!! I needed this! Need to show this to my non Indian friends coming for my wedding

Proud to be indian

Oh my, thanks so much. I have my first Indian wedding to do in a couple of weeks. A doctor, no wedding coordinator, to be held at a pond then the reception in the evening. Wish me luck.

Ehhh llegue tarde a la fiesta! Love it, so interesante!

@AlainMartinez

5 жыл бұрын

Ellie Lopez haha. Mejor tarde que nunca

Thank you so much for this video, the one our teacher gave us for our assignment was terrible and did not explain anything. So I did some further research and found this extremely high quality video. Thank you again for making this video so I could actually take notes lol

@AlainMartinez

2 жыл бұрын

glad to hear it helped

I'll marry an Indian wonderful man, I'm a latina. Where I can learn more about it, please any suggestions. Thank you🙏🏼🙏🏼 love this video😍😍😍

@AlainMartinez

2 жыл бұрын

what exactly do you want learn about?

Thanks!

Why am i watching this. I knew it already. BTW nice video

Once my girlfriend said we couldn't kiss at our wedding, I got so confused; at that point I have never heard of not kissing at the wedding! I am American and she is Indian. we're still ony teens but have a lot ahead of us. Only*

Hi Alan, love your energy, enthusiasm, and passion for sharing your expertise. I’m an Indian American mom of a daughter who is wanting to get married (and we’re in the process of looking for a suitable boy...yes, an arranged marriage of sorts!) That’s how I chanced upon your video in my feed. You’ve explained the highlights of the wedding ceremonies very well. However you may want to consider the fact that South Indian weddings are very different from North Indian weddings. Also Destination weddings and intercultural/inter religious marriages have become a big part of current trends (as you’ve mentioned in this video) and that creates a lot of fusion in the marriage ceremonies. One of my Indian cousin’s daughter’s (my niece) recently got married to a Scottish guy who was part Japanese. So they had a church wedding in the UK followed by a Mehendi-Sangeet-simple ritual in India, more as a ‘meet the family’ event and to keep the grandparents happy. Mehendi-Sangeet are more of North Indian wedding components that have become more popular even in the South due to promotion by wedding planners. True South Indian weddings would be more ritual-based with the fire rituals playing a more prominent part. I’m sharing all this more for the sake of your young Indian American channel followers to enhance their own cultural awareness. (And also to know how to explain it all to my daughter! 😊) Overall you did a great job and I really enjoyed watching what you had to share. Keep up the great work!

Nice one Alain!!

@AlainMartinez

5 жыл бұрын

Muhamed Khattab Films thanks man

Thank you for loving our culture!

@AlainMartinez

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, we do love the South East Asian culture

@ushasingh2303

3 жыл бұрын

@@AlainMartinez I’m an Indian American and we have so many Indians living in USA. You should watch Namaste Wahala, on Netflix Bollywood and Nollywood. An Indian guy and an Nigerian girl.

❤very nice 👍

Thank you for good and perfect explanation 😊😊. Exactly this is the Indian wedding culture/ ceremony. I am an Indian , am watching from india. I really feel proud today......❤️❤️. I got your video through CNBC website.....

@AlainMartinez

2 жыл бұрын

What? Can you share a link where this was posted? Thank you.

@youtubeawal3049

2 жыл бұрын

@@AlainMartinez do you know?? And thanks for viewing my comment. ♥️

I was fortunate enough to be invited to attend a friend's wedding. They were both east indian. Going in i was not sure what to expect. I was nervous, i'd never been in a temple before. I also was surprised to learn our attendance would be requested for THREE DAYS worth of events very much like explained in this video. Somr things that i was surprised by, caught off guard by, were: *Shoes off upon entering temple - they all go in a giant heap by the door and somehow everyone manages to find their own when they go! *Women must cover their heads in the temple - yes even non Indian attendees! We were given loaner scarves to use as we were not prepared for this! *instead of grooms side and brides side they seperate attendees by gender women on one side, men on the other. *The food was vegetarian as stated in this video but LOTS OF IT! and he's right it's wonderful! Super flavorful and delicious! * the pandit (holy man performing the ceremony) carried around a bowl of a soft not quite SLIMY (but lets just say if your sensitive to textures this might be a tough-ie)the slightly sweet/ dough-y substance that he passed around to each person by pulling off a small bit rolling it into a quick ball and placing it in each person's mouth with his bare fingers as he said a prayer....(granted this was before covid) but was still hard to swallow so to speak! All in all was an amazing, beautiful experience and im sure Vijay and Divya are happily ever after!

@Browakk

6 ай бұрын

Tysm for this!! I have an assignment due tomorrow, i have to write about what i understand about asian marriage. I chose india, china and Indonesia as an example.

Nice 👌

Where do you find music to use in your Indian wedding videos?

For sure, it's gonna be very useful for anyone who has never been into an Indian wedding, but you forget to mention the haldi ritual, where turmeric (haldi), oil and water are applied to both the bride and groom by married women on the morning of the wedding.

@tobeyismysugardaddy1980

2 жыл бұрын

He mentioned it in the starting of the vid

I am marrying an Indian and as the bride this is helpful as we are mixing my czechoslovakian culture with his Indian culture

@Noone-gz8li

2 жыл бұрын

Where are u from ?

@xenomoe9519

2 жыл бұрын

@@Noone-gz8li Czech republic

❤

WOW!!! Thank you so much for the information and absolutely beautiful work...

@AlainMartinez

3 жыл бұрын

I'm glad to hear you found it useful!!

Hi there. Please can you tell me what music you used at 1.00. Much appreciated 👏🏾✨

@AlainMartinez

4 жыл бұрын

I can't remember the name of the song but it's a royalty free song from Artlist.io

@tanujamishra6537

3 жыл бұрын

It's Indian culture's rajasthani music

@kasha9213

3 жыл бұрын

@@tanujamishra6537 That much I knew, just liked that particular sound 😊

Welcome in Bharat and enjoy new wedding ceremony 🎉❤❤

I am an Indian who lives in India but never understood so many parts 😂

Hi alan which song did you play on here 0:50 ? Thanks

@Noone-gz8li

2 жыл бұрын

Its rajasthani classic music

Sooooo my crush went to an Indian wedding and said that she was given a present which was chocolate by a boy as one of the events and I'm confused as fc

@AlainMartinez

3 жыл бұрын

Yes chocolate and sweets in general are very appreciated

Informative, but I wish this video had more Indian wedding images and videos under the voice rather than talking heads :)

What was theoutro music Alain?

@AlainMartinez

3 жыл бұрын

I found it on triplescoopmusic.com

I'm Norwegian viking goddess and I'm getting married to ganesha soon who is basically the most popular god in India so this helped me alot. Thanks

@AlainMartinez

2 жыл бұрын

glad to hear that. Have fun at your wedding.

@sudo07

Жыл бұрын

married to whom?

Even though me and my family are Indian, my brother is marrying a Buddhist girl and both my brother and her know nothing about our wedding ceremonies, this is the video we showed her and my brother, both of them know a lot now about the ceremonies!

@Noone-gz8li

2 жыл бұрын

Buddhist and Hindu marriages are same in india

@Noone-gz8li

2 жыл бұрын

Same rituals

Wow...you explained it beautiful...but there is sooo much detailing..Lol

bro gets to the point at 2:25 ur welcome

These are north indian hindu weddings...there are wide variety of wedding functions in india and my favorite is the Syrian Christian weddings of kerala

@AlainMartinez

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah there are many different types of indian weddings.

@rairadio7119

2 жыл бұрын

There is a difference between doing something in India and something being Indian by origin. When we say Indian food, we dont mean Pizza joints in India.

@xenomoe9519

2 жыл бұрын

Syrian is not Indian wedding.

@xenomoe9519

2 жыл бұрын

@@rairadio7119 well said

Starts at 2:25

@AlainMartinez

3 жыл бұрын

What's that?

are all Indian weddings following these same rules? please let me know anyone.

@jacenath8197

3 жыл бұрын

No, there are many different types of Indian weddings. This video focused mainly on North Indian weddings. South Indian and East Indian weddings follow different rules and traditions depending on the ethnicity of the people. My favourite are Malayali and Tamil weddings

@SK-hd1yk

2 жыл бұрын

Also south Asian is very vast, there is Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Nepalese etc and then there are extra religious functions depending on the couples religion

@peterfromla7505

2 жыл бұрын

@@SK-hd1yk True

@rairadio7119

2 жыл бұрын

The rituals vary slightly - but Haldi (turmeric), stealing shoes, exchange of garlands and 7 rounds around the fire, Sanskrit Mantras these are common. North Indians wear skirts, East and South wears sarees.

I'm from Pakistan and we do alot of similar things but even I'm confused about what's happening lol

@daa577

Жыл бұрын

Stupid converted, u r all fallowing Hindu culture..

@Suraj-Verma_

Жыл бұрын

Accept it or not your forefathers were also hindu.....

May i respectfully ask, are these weddings arranged marriage?

@Par_323

Ай бұрын

Both

Why do you not show the pictures while you are speaking? You do not need to be in shot the whole time!

What percentage of these weddings are white wife's and Indian husband's my boyfriend is indian and I'm white and when you see this type of couple do they do all the parts ?

It's north Indian wedding ...... South Indian is different

@xenomoe9519

2 жыл бұрын

He said Indian wedding not imported Indian wedding

@Suraj-Verma_

Жыл бұрын

Ajj kal toh mujhe south indians per gussa aaney laga hai....har jagah north south ghuser detay hai...Bhai he said indian wedding...

Haldi

This was disappointing, I still don't know what to ware or expect, last this I want is a exhibit in the corner...

Just I saw you and you know what you actually look like my boyfriend ! 😔

It NOT an INDIAN wedding. It's just a wedding in HINDU culture✋

@AlainMartinez

2 жыл бұрын

You're right. Thank you.

@xenomoe9519

2 жыл бұрын

It's not Indian wedding? What is Indian wedding then ?

I'm indian and I'm gonna kiss at me wedding tho

@Suraj-Verma_

Жыл бұрын

Do it but not infront of holy fire... your thought shows very clearly you will chose lust over love....

Not 2000 years. Our culture is 10000 or more years old. Proud Hindu

Faker

I'm white, & my best friend is going to marry a "Brown girl" as she calls herself. Thank you for this information. I can't wait to see the elephant and get my shoes took. This wedding is gonna be lit as fuck!!!! Thank you

@AlainMartinez

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like you're in for a party Nigel!!