Indian wedding vs. Chinese wedding

Yesterday the sister of my friend of more than 11 years got engaged. The engagement ceremony was a traditional Indian one. A Gujerathi one to be exact as they are Guju Indians. I was invited by the parents themselves to help out. Basically I did the video recording. Judging by the scale at which the engagement ceremony took place, I’m going to call it a wedding straight. Purvi (Kishan’s sister) & Monaj (the lucky guy because it turns out Purvi is the most eligible and sought after woman in the Guju community) are definitely gonna end up together although their real wedding is only gonna be end of this year. Because after all the money spent yesterday and the amount of people who turned up, breaking their engagement now would be tantamount to suicide.

At and Indian wedding Indian people still wear their traditional cultural clothes. For the women, it’s the sari, and and as I’ve told Anusha a million times before, saris make Indian women look deadly sexy. For the men, their traditional costume is not much different from other cultures; a pajamas suit. For Chinese women, cheongsams are deadly sexy too, but hardly anyone ever wears them nowdays. Most often at a Chinese wedding, the only thing Chinese is the people wearing the clothes.

At an Indian wedding, there is just so much rocking Bhangra music. You just can’t escape the beat no matter how hard you try! And there were so many performances, half of them done by members of the bride’s relatives, and Kishan and his other sis themselves! That really makes it worthy for a relative faraway from Johor to drive 6 hours up just so he can see his relatives performing. At a Chinese wedding, there is NO dancing whatsoever, because Chinese culture is devoid of dancing except for dancing animals like lions and dragons. Singing is quite common though as long as it does not involve gyrating. The most exciting thing the audience can participate in is the Yam Seng in which we compete to see who has the biggest pair of lungs.

At the Guju wedding, the seats were 75% empty most of the time as people were milling and mixing about. In fact, it was difficult to get people to get seated for the speeches as if this was primary school. At Chinese wedding, you sit at your table and the furthest person away you can talk to is the one directly opposite you. If you try to walk about, people will start asking who your irresponsible parents are.

At Chinese wedding, dishes are served one by one. Sometimes it is a pain waiting for the next dish, or before you can even dig in to this one the next one arrives. At Indian wedding, buffet style. Stuff yourself silly cause it’s all readily available, unlimited, and free!

Verdict: Indian weddings beat Chinese weddings all the time unless the Chinese women wear cheongsams.