How do you imagine your dream wedding?? With a picture perfect venue, a big number of guests witnessing the grand celebrations, ceremonies that last for 2-3 days, fun and quirky photo booths, giveaways and favors for your beloved guests, food from different cultures and of course fairy tale wedding decoration ideas and themes and a photographer who is going to capture the planned and candid moments so that you can relive the memories of your Big Day every time you look at the album. Sounds perfect, isn’t it!!! Indian wedding season has officially begun and while your wedding planner must be busy suggesting the perfect palace or heritage venues in Rajasthan and of course the lavish decorations for every ceremony, meanwhile India witnessed its first underwater wedding of this Indian and Slovakian couple at the Grove beach in Kerala.
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The couple, guy being an Indian and girl being Slovakian, decided to go off beat and take wedding vows amidst the massive Arabian Sea. Their guest list had just close friends who even helped them to set up the stage made of coconut palms, flowers, leaves, and wood. The story behind their unison is quite adorable. The guy is a professional diving instructor in Kovalam and he met the girl of his dreams when she was on a visit to India and wanted to dive, this happened 7 months back. After that she went back to her home and returned a month ago when the guy proposed to her underwater with a placard saying “Will You Marry Me?” and she said a YES. When the guy suggested getting married underwater the girl agreed in an instant and they even underwent a formal training for 2 days to pull off their marriage successfully.
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One of the guy friends of the groom played the role of the priest as well and all the vows were taken using placards. How thoughtful, isn’t it!!! The couple exchanged rings and garland made of seashells. It is been speculated that the couple will take the wedding vows again in Slovakia as per the local traditions. It is been rightly said that love can take you places and motivate you to pursue anything you want and this underwater wedding is a perfect example that love knows no religion and boundaries and that if you want something badly the universe will conspire things in your favor. And the bride and groom, in this case, were extremely lucky. Thus, we sum up the insights from this hat ke Indian – Slovakian wedding below –
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• There is no special permission required to take wedding vows underwater as it is a scuba diving exercise.
• Before taking the decision of tying the knot underwater make sure you are thoroughly trained as India’s first underwater wedding took an hour and a half to complete all the rituals. That’s a long time!!!
• You can even make a stage and other decorations under water.
• Having placard messages is definitely a unique option.
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There are the number of ways to plan weddings with different themes, it all depends on how you want to vision your Big Day!!
