I'm glad I'm not getting married in India!
An Israeli couple being married in India have found that you may not kiss the bride - the pair were fined $22 for indecency for their wedding embrace.A court in Rajasthan imposed the fine after Alon Orpaz and Tehila Salev had decided to get married in a traditional Hindu ceremony in Pushkar.
Priests were offended when the couple kissed and hugged during the chanting of religious verses.
The apologetic couple said they were unaware public kissing was banned.
(HT: RV.)
I wonder how much it would have cost with tongue?
Before we got married the pastor told Daniel to kiss me just long enough to embarass me. Being the obedient person he is, Daniel kissed me for what felt like forever. I started getting really embarrassed and I pulled away from him. I have some friends who still tease me about that. :)
I think the pastor was right though, because everyone else said that our kiss seemed a normal length, so it was probably just all of the people staring at me that made it feel like an eternity.
Oh, and don't use tongue during your wedding kiss.
That's a very broad statement "you may not kiss the bride in India". They ignore the fact that Rajasthan is one of India's poorest, least developed, and most conservative states. Also, the place where the couple was married was religious center.
India is a very diservee nation and basing it off of it's most backward, conservative and unmodern places is ignorance.
I wouldn't necessarily call it "ignorance", but rather "limited information" (which, technically, could be the same thing, but the word "ignorance" has a negative subtext).
it is ignorance to get married in a foreign land without doing adequate research.
namantra: You're right; I wasn't trying to characterize all of India, just relate a humorous story one of my Indian friends sent me.
Judging by our practice wedding kisses, I think we are going to do well.
Why can't westerners understand that different places and cultures have different sensibilities? In India a marriage is considered very sacred, and so is sex, but the two are very different - while one includes display amongst thousands of people, the latter involves utter privacy. It is not decent to kiss in the public in India, leave alone kiss in the midst of a religious ceremony!
In Papua New Guinea, couples don't kiss even in their church after Christian weddings.
It is high time Westerners shed their ignorance.
Are these two statements equal and opposite?
"It is high time Westerners shed their ignorance [of foreign customs]."
"It is high time Easterners shed their intolerance [of foreign customs]."
If so, I would offer up the latter.
Give me a break. You want to talk about ignorance? I lived in india for over a year, While I couldnt share a quick peck with my husband in Public, it was perfectly ok for any man to whip out his penis where ever and whenever he wanted to take a piss, regardless of who was around. Does that make any sense? Obviously I am just some ignorant westerner. Insensitive. Someone said that marriage is such a sacred thing in India. That must be why 2/3 of married indian women experience abuse, And why Numerous times when I was there I was malicously stared at, followed or groped. Even in the presence of my husband. Blame it on me, I suppose the ankles and wrists that I left exposed are too tantalizing. After travelling and living abroad I have never felt so patriotic. Bless the USA! and all its hedonist kissing married fools.