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Beauty and the feast
VOGUE India
|November - December 2024
The appeal of Indian weddings has always been in a sprawling spread. For additional bragging rights, Aditi Dugar recommends going beyond designer tablecloths and monogrammed napkins.
WHEN MY ELDEST sister got married, I was too young to process the spectacle of Indian shaadis. Now that I look back on it, I realise there were the usual characters: an aunt distressed about not being given preferential treatment, my grandparents being nostalgic about how weddings were done during their time and my brother's battle with the decorators over some mismatched flowers.
This story is from the November - December 2024 edition of VOGUE India.
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