The diaries, not the dictionary

Weddings of this house

The real weddings this house has held.

The actuals

The weddings this house has held

The rites, the language and the meaning live on their own pages — the timeless version of a Pahadi wedding. These are the real ones it's drawn from, newest first: the house's own and the wider family's, kept at home and away, each bending the template in its own way.

What every rite means — the canonical wedding

Nov 2021House Bride of this houseDocumented, rite by rite

Most fully kept · Kumaon

Uma & Akshit

A daughter of this house, Uma, married Akshit of the Bhandari family — kept the old way, at home, rite by rite. This is the wedding most fully documented here: every photograph and film on these pages is theirs.

1 day · Traditional Kunja Bhandari of Bhandari Gaon · Bageshwar

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