Big fat Indian weddings
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2021
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Are the days of the big fat Indian wedding over? Since Covid Indian weddings have got a lot smaller. But will they go back to what they once were? Rahul Tandon speaks to bride to be Yashaswini Singhdeo, mother of the bride Meenal Singhdeo, Sandip Roy author and columnist, Ambika Gupta wedding planner and owner of the A cube project and Parul Bhandari a sociologist from the Indian centre of social sciences and humanities .
(Photo: Indian couple hold hands during a wedding ceremony. Credit: Amir Mukhtar/Getty Images)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Rahul Tandon and welcome to Business Daily on the BBC. |
| 0:06.8 | Today, the Big Fat Indian wedding has been on a pandemic-enforced diet, |
| 0:11.3 | but not everyone is happy with that like this bride. |
| 0:14.4 | Had I been asked this question earlier, I think I would have said yes, you know, I really want a smaller wedding. |
| 0:19.4 | When you're told you have to cut down, |
| 0:21.2 | I don't think anyone likes it. It is a $50 billion industry and with restrictions being eased |
| 0:27.1 | in India is the diet the wedding industry has been put on about to end. |
| 0:31.8 | The big fat Indian wedding might have been put on a pandemic diet for a year or so, but it is chafing to get back |
| 0:40.8 | at the buffet table all over again. The future of the big fat Indian wedding that's coming up on |
| 0:46.0 | Business Daily from the BBC. That is a sound that you're going to be hearing all over India for the next few months |
| 1:01.6 | because wedding season is about to get underway. |
| 1:05.7 | The sound of wedding bands like that reminds me of my own big fat Indian wedding. |
| 1:10.3 | But don't worry, I'm not going to bore you with the details of that for the next 17 minutes. |
| 1:15.3 | Because of the pandemic in India, weddings have had to become a lot smaller. |
| 1:20.2 | Restrictions were put in place on the number of people that Indians could invite. |
| 1:25.4 | Many have seen that as a good thing. |
| 1:27.1 | As the big fat Indian wedding, well, it had basically become obese. |
| 1:31.9 | But let's get the thoughts of a bride-to-be. |
| 1:35.4 | Yasha Swinni Singh Dio is about to get married. |
| 1:39.0 | First question, how's she feeling? |
| 1:41.2 | Stressed out. |
| 1:42.1 | It's exciting because it's another chapter of my life. |
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