SATHNAM SANGHERA NOTEBOOK

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Narrated by Sathnam Sanghera

I stopped attending Indian weddings, if I could possibly get away with doing so, some time ago. With Sikh betrothals generally lasting three days, and having 54 first cousins, I faced a clear choice in my twenties and thirties: either attend family weddings or live my life.

But I’m also aware that non-Indians often enjoy attending them, and I’m not surprised to hear about a website, joinmywedding.com, which, for a fee of about $150, enables tourists in India to attend the nuptials of complete strangers.

It’s a brilliant idea: young couples get financial help (although they don’t admit this as a motive on the website), while tourists get to experience the colour, occasional drunkenness and crushing prolixity of Indian wedding ceremonies.

However I can’t help