Indian Wedding Photos

A Glamorous Waterfront Indian-Korean Fusion Wedding at Belle Mar in Newport, Rhode Island

Shruti and Ernest saw their wedding as the opportunity to fuse their different cultures. “The wedding really united my Indian and Hindu background with Ernest’s Christian and Korean heritage,” Shruti says. In keeping with Hindu tradition, Ernest entered the baraat on a white horse. At the ceremon...

A Colorful Garden Wedding at The Woodlands Country Club in The Woodlands, Texas

After visiting The Woodlands Country Club, Tanzim and David wanted to host an outdoor ceremony overlooking the lake. Tanzim tasked herself with creating a day accented with red, pink and white flowers and anchored by a more neutral base color. “I enjoyed doing the planning because I was able to p...

A Color-Packed Traditional South Indian Wedding in Concord, New Hampshire

To celebrate their marriage, Pooja and Ravi hosted three days of festivities filled with a vibrant color palette to celebrate the joy that was central to their south Indian wedding. To aid in the planning and since "Indian culture within itself is different depending on the state you come from," ...

A Classic Navy-and-White Military Wedding at Belle Mer in Newport, Rhode Island

It was important to Nikki Anderson and Karthik Venkatraman, "to have the wedding be a representation of who we are as a couple." As such, they planned a wedding in Newport, Rhode Island, that melded watercolor details, traditional Indian elements and tributes to the Navy. While those components w...

A Colorful Mountaintop Wedding at Timber Ridge Lodge in Keystone, Colorado

“The key was balancing the boldness of Indian style with the rustic simplicity of the mountains,” Winnie Agarwal (28 and works at Facebook) says. She wed Nik Talwar (28 and a hedge fund sector head) at a summit 12,000 feet in the air. The couple blended traditional Hindu elements, such as Nik’s b...

This Couple Celebrated Their Multicultural Wedding Under California's Towering Redwoods

To celebrate the blending of two cultures and two families, Kathryn Uhl (31 and a manager at a global non-profit) and Saagar Kurani (31 and a musician and product manager) celebrated their wedding with two wedding ceremonies, a Hindu one and a western one, at Deerpark Villa in Fairfax, California...

This Indian Wedding at Villa Del Lago in Austin, Texas, Had the Most Epic Gold Details

Puja Chugh (28 and a business and technology consultant) and Karan Chaudhary (27 and a technology investor) placed special emphasis on adding meaning to all the components of their wedding. “Every part of our wedding day was either cultural, traditional or sentimental,” Puja says, especially the ...

Unique Chairs Set Apart This Indian Wedding at Cranbrook Art Museum in Michigan

Priya Chatterjee (32 and a healthcare consultant) and Debmallo Shayon Ghosh (32 and a lawyer) honored both their family values and their Bengali heritages by throwing a culturally-focused celebration steeped in tradition and sentimentality. “Indian weddings put a heavy emphasis on two families co...

An Elegant Winter Wedding at the Harold Washington Library in Chicago, Illinois

Roshni and Elliot fused the bride's Hindu culture and the groom's Western roots for an elegant, luxurious wedding at the Harold Washington Library in Chicago. To start the day, Roshni and Elliot got ready with close family and friends. She wore a traditional red and gold lehenga, henna, bangles a...

A Romantic Garden Wedding on a Private Property in Moscow, Idaho

Sarah Bowen and Neil Patel wed on the bride's brother's property in Moscow, Idaho, blending their family traditions into a unique and colorful Western-Indian fusion celebration. Sarah's classic wedding gown combined an A-line skirt with a silky champagne-colored top. Later, she changed into a pin...

A Modern Fusion Wedding at The Nines Hotel in Portland, Oregon

Misbah Akhtar and Frank Tea planned a celebration for 250 guests at The Nines Hotel. "Our wedding style was romantic and modern with bright colors and some details from both of our cultures included in the day," Misbah says (the bride is Pakistani and the groom is Chinese). The color palette incl...

A Traditional Hindu Ceremony Mixed with a Classic Western Wedding in Atlanta, Georgia

Nirali and Ray Koh had a two-part wedding that featured their different cultures. "We wanted to have a day that celebrates not only us as a couple, but the union of our families. Our hope was to illustrate our amazing Indian and Korean cultures, as well as Hindu and Christian traditions," Nirali ...

Indian Fusion Wedding in The Mountains

A few months after they started dating, Jessica (Jess) Merrell (28 and a government employee) and Kiran Sreenivas (31 and works in health care research) took a trip to Asheville. Jess got lost and Kiran was pulled over, but they still fell hard for the city—and each other. “That first trip was sy...

Artistic Indian Wedding at Grounds for Sculpture in NJ

Paisley Singh (28 and a software engineer) and Joe Plantamura (28 and works in client success for point of sale software) wanted their wedding to transport guests to the storied land of Westeros. “We envisioned a sort of Game of Thrones meets Indian fantasy fusion,” Paisley says. A storybook- lik...

An Extravagant, Glamorous Indian Wedding at Amanyara in Turks and Caicos

Nonstop entertainment was the theme for Melanie  (29 and an actress) and Neeraj's (33 and an investor) opulent wedding at Amanyara in Turks and Caicos. In addition to countless wardrobe changes, the couple participated in a number of choreographed dances and even flew in three dancers from the Sa...

A Bright, Multicultural Garden Wedding at Fearrington Village in Pittsboro, North Carolina

For their Jewish-Indian fusion wedding at a rural North Carolina barn, Lauren Ring (28 and a physician) and Mohan Mallipeddi (32 and also a physician) managed to seamlessly blend traditions from their respective backgrounds. “We wanted to celebrate the best parts of each of our cultures,” Lauren ...

A Personalized Cultural Wedding at Ovation Chicago in Illinois

For their wedding, Jacquie Pelusi (31 and a marketing account manager) and Chinar Desai (32 and a marketing VP) struggled with how to respect his parents' Indian traditions while including their American friends and family. The two-hour Hindu ritual wasn't going to fly, so the couple created a hy...

An Indian Lakeside Wedding at Villa Del Lago in Austin, Texas

Eight years after Punita Dave (28 and an assistant buyer at Bergdorf Goodman) and Aamer Patel (31 and a managing partner at a consulting firm) met as undergraduates at University of Texas, the pair returned to Austin to say “I do” at Villa Del Lago on Lake Travis. “It was a no-brainer decision on...

A Colorful Interfaith Wedding at Zingerman's Cornman Farms in Dexter, Michigan

Thanks to its sheer abundance of silk, velvet, tulle and hand-embroidered sequins, Irina Khurana’s (26 and a medical student) Indian lehenga reminded her of one very prominent queen. “I felt like Daenerys in Game of Thrones,” she says. Irina wore the ornate dress for her vows to longtime love Lee...

A Colorful Interfaith Wedding at Doe Creek Farm in Pembroke, Virginia

In just seven months, Danielle Wang (30 and an attorney) and Rohan Kalyan (35 and a professor) pulled off a two-day affair with three ceremonies and four dresses. “Given that both Indian and Chinese weddings are so lively, we chose bright, bold colors centered around red, which is the heart of th...

A Casual Indian-American Wedding at Eventide Brewing in Atlanta, Georgia

Mithila Tople and Jeremy DeJiacomo infused Indian and American traditions into their modern, casual wedding. "We wanted a warm, intimate and fun-filled wedding that reflected both of us, our ideals and the different cultures we grew up in," the couple says.  The outdoor ceremony took place agains...

An Elegant Indian Fusion Wedding at Blue Hill Farm at Stone Barns in Tarrytown, New York

Indrani Franchini and Dennis Heidt planned a colorful, bohemian-inspired, Indian fusion wedding at Blue Hill Farm at Stone Barns. The color palette was variations of deep saturated reds with accents of rich orange, pastel salmon and gold. At the ceremony, guests sat around a nontraditional mandap...

A Luxe Multicultural Wedding at the St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort in Dana Point, California

Grace Park (30 and a professional violinist) married her college sweetheart, Kunal Khaitani (30 and a business owner), in an Asian fusion affair at Monarch Beach Resort, which "acted as a getaway for our guests,” she says. “Once you set foot on the property, you feel like you’re on vacation.” The...