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We are pretty used to seeing glamorous weddings in news nowadays.
Couples and their parents spend crores of rupees to make the wedding “memorable”. Then there is this new generation of bride and grooms who want to do something more than just a big, fat wedding.
And these weddings are nothing short of inspirational, although not glamorous.
1. This couple didn’t let demonetization ruin their wedding. They got married for just Rs. 500.
Demonetization has hit weddings hard. But it did not stop Bharat and Daksha from getting married anyway. Their plans did take a hit, but they went ahead with the wedding anyway. And they look very happy!
“We decided to give up on a grand wedding and instead had a ‘chai, paani wala’ wedding,”
2. This couple let go of the conventional ceremony and instead donated the amount to farmers’ families
Sadly, farmers go through a sad time in summers. It is almost routine to see a headline in the newspapers about a farmer suicide.
This civil service duo of Abhay and Preeti donated their ceremony budget to 10 farmer families from Amravati. Pretty sure they will make excellent public servants.
3. This Turkish couple fed 4200 Syrian refugees during their wedding
Syrian refugees are being treated like crap, in their own country and in the countries they try to migrate to. But this Turkish couple showed what love and compassion truly means. And what better day to show it on than their wedding
Fethullah Üzümcüoğlu and Esra Polat called this “a celebration with their Syrian brothers and sisters”.
4. This couple spent $10,000 of their wedding registry money to feed hungry children
In the USA, stores have wedding registries so that the guests can see the preferences of the couple to be married.
Jacob Weiss and Joy Teal from Tennessee decided to not accept gifts. They rather asked their guests to donate about $10,000 of the gift money to hungry children.
5. This British couple fed their guests with food that could have been wasted
It is not news that we waste a lot of food. Around 1.6 billion tons of food is wasted every year.
Nicola Hedges and Christopher McKenna went ahead and asked all the food outlets and restaurants to send their leftovers to their wedding. And that’s what they fed their guests. Mind you, this food is not used or expired. It fresh, but just because of high standards, most restaurants just throw them away.
A noble deed.
6. This couple had an eco-friendly wedding with dogs as guests
Shasvathi and Karthik from Mumbai went the whole nine yards to make their wedding eco-friendly. they did not use flowers for decoration and no cut banana leaves. They didn’t even have paper napkins that generate a lot of waste.
And to top it all, they even allowed animals into their weddings.
I am sure they felt like they made a difference on the day they tied their knot.
7. Bride from MP asked in-laws to plant 10,000 trees as dowry
Priyanka Bhadoriya from Gwalior asked what could be interpreted as an ecological reverse dowry.
She asked her in-laws to plant 10,000 trees in exchange for her hand given to the groom. Her father is a farmer and used to suffer a lot during droughts, and hence this move.
What makes this story a good one is that her in-laws agreed to her demand!
8. This tech couple from Bangalore had a zero waste wedding
Soumya and Abhishek Reddy did not let any of their waste go to a landfill. As we know landfills are just toxic areas that harm settlements around them. The Reddys sequestered all their waste with the help of 150 professional waste handlers.
And the food waste was transferred to a bio-methanation plant.
Bravo!
9. This bride gave her BA exams instead of the vidaayi
All of us will agree that the vidaayi is perhaps the saddest and the most unnecessary part of a wedding ceremony.
And in a time where women are getting serious about education in the rural areas, Santosh Prajapat put her vidaayi on hold to give her BA exams.
She is going to win in life, we are sure!
10. This couple ran a marathon for charity on their wedding day
Jackie and Duncan dated for 13 years before Duncan finally asked her the big question. In the meantime, Jackie fought off cancer. After she recovered, they started living their lives to the fullest and started running marathons together too.
Jackie started running after the weight gain in chemotherapy, and Duncan supported her fully. They got married at 6am in the morning at the start line of the marathon.
This is how you make your wedding truly memorable!
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