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Maharashtrian wedding

Marigolds, then mundavalya

The haldi happened under a tree strung with marigolds, and at some point a whole basket of them went over the bride’s head.

By the next day the pearls of the mundavalya were tied on. Between the rituals the two of them kept finding a second to lean in and laugh.

At a haldi under a large tree, the groom tips a basket of marigold petals over the bride, both dressed in pale green.

A Maharashtrian couple wearing pearl mundavalya touch foreheads, eyes closed, petals in their hair. — A pause between rituals.

Seated during the ceremony, the couple look at each other and smile as marigold petals fall around them; he holds a betel leaf. — Petals still coming down.