Fairytale wedding and enjoying my first Bollywood movie

Oh boy what a week!

I always heard that Indian weddings are special, but WOW! If I would have seen the venue without knowing what it was for I would have guessed Eurovision finals, and if I would have seen the wedding without knowing who was getting married I would have guessed the royal family. Unfortunately my camera was not charged fully so I could not take that many pictures. I will get the collected pictures from more people soon though, so I can share more later!

Married couple 1

Married couple 2

During the first day of the ceremony we finally got to perform the dancing we had been practising for the last two weeks. The final rehearsals were quite bad, but during the big show I think even I did not miss that many steps! We had a professional camera guy there to record the whole thing, so I can share the videos as soon as they are finished. Normally I am not that fond of dancing, and my learning curve in it's arts is horrible. I really enjoyed doing it now though since it was a good challenge and a chance to step out of my comfort zone and do something different. At some point I stopped thinking too much about memorizing the choreography and started to listen to the music instead, and suddenly learning it became easy!

First dance performance (And last pictures before camera ran out of batteries...)

The wedding went on for a couple of days, and every evening presented something different. There were dinners, dancing, enforced staying over at another place, among other! It was fun to be on the dance floor with many generations of people dancing to crazy Indian music.

After the wedding was over most of the younger generation of the "inner circle" went to the cinema to watch a movie. We watched a movie called 'Wake up Sid' that was in Hindi, or well - a huge mix of English and Hindi. Even if it was like three hours long and I only understood 5% of the words I managed to stay awake and actually understood most of the movie. The movie in itself was just like any teenage Hollywood flicks, so besides the language it wasn't really anything new. It was well done though and I really liked the music.

To summarize the week it was just a lot of fun and not that much learning more than Indian wedding traditions.  I am still fascinated of the concept of arranged marriages. My spontaneous analysis why it works is that the love and care of the family is valued higher than the love to your spouse. A wedding is family business and not your own individual business. For you Indian readers out there interested in discussing it further please go ahead! =)

On the work side I now called all the targeted companies in Sweden dealing with LED lighting. Next week will be about following up with them and see how they see our product range. It is very exciting times since the result will shape the rest of my stay here. If we are competitive in the Scandinavian market I should have interesting work to do for as long as I want to, and if not it will be uncertain what I should do to add good value here.

See you soon!