What does a wedding conventional night look like? With all those lights and regular and conventional decoration, the bride and groom exchange garlands and sit beside each other to pose with family members? Going by the traditions in a Hindu wedding ceremony, both of them exchange vows and take seven rounds of the sacred fire. For Muslims, it is more of a formal proposal from the groom which the bride has to accept by repeating “Qubool Hai” three times over. This Hindu-Muslim couple based in Dubai had a totally different idea of a wedding in their head. A Muslim boy Junaid Shaikh and a Hindu girl Garima Joshi studied together in Symbiosis, Pune. Fate brought them together again through a chance meeting in Dubai. Well, cupid struck and the two fell in love. However, convincing their families for marriage was a hard nut to crack because of their religious backgrounds. So, when they finally said yes, the couple decided to have a hatke wedding night.
“We’re not doing a nikah, we’re not doing pheras. We are just having a celebration. It’s a celebration of two cultures and two families,” Shaikh said. Shattering all stereotypes, they skipped the nikah and pheras and danced the night away instead!
“It’s so unfortunate that even today Hindu-Muslim marriage is considered a taboo in our country. We met Garima & Junaid last year and after meeting them we were so convinced that love is way beyond culture and religion,”
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