Picture this: three days, three weddings, three sisters, and the grooms, well, two of them are brothers.
Spare a thought for the father of the brides of these big fat Indian weddings, who is forking out for a Bollywood blockbuster weekend Down Under.
Twins Harjyot and Nirjyot, and their younger sister Bavelin all tied the knot at the same time to grooms Harjot and Gurjot, who happen to be brothers, and Manraj.
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“Well, we share every milestone together so we thought why not,” Harjyot said.
“What is it like having your brother date your sister? I mean, you can’t really get away from each other right?” A Current Affair asked.
“No, it’s a bit weird,” Harjot laughed.
“It’s really fun actually,” Nirjyot giggled.
“So were you all engaged at the same time?” A Current Affair asked.
“No, so it actually happened a year after each other. So we got engaged first, then my twin sister, then our younger sister Bavelin,” Nirjyot said.
“So our family members overseas were like, let’s just have one big trip where we can see three weddings all in one go instead of coming back every year again and again,” Harjyot added.
So one big Indian extravaganza took over the sister’s home town of Townsville.
With almost 500 guests attending each day of the nuptials, the couples spent five weeks shopping for the wedding in India.
“We basically had over a dozen events just for our wedding and that’s a whole month worth of events and then if you times that by three – easily about 36 events,” Harjyot said.
“How many outfits did the girls have each?” A Current Affair asked their mother Harjinder.
“I bought 31 outfits,” she said.
“How many outfits did you two have?” A Current Affair asked their parents.
“We bought only 11 each,” Harjinder replied.
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Perfect Media’s Sam Pirzad was one of the photographers tasked with capturing the milestone moments.
“It wasn’t easy for everyone, it was hard for the family. It was a lot of early mornings waking up at like 4am, 3am getting ready,” Pirzad said.
“So as part of our job [it] was very challenging to create something different for them everyday [and] not have the same content.”
Traditional Indian weddings don’t just last a day.
There are pre-wedding ceremonies rich in culture and colour, and they certainly know how to host an after party.
“It always gets wild at Indian weddings I guess,” Harjot laughed.
Just like the recent wedding of Anant Ambani, the son of Asia’s richest man, and his bride Radhika Merchant. It was rumoured to cost about $1 billion with stars like Justin Bieber performing.
“I think this one was Australia’s version and you even had a famous face, Bob Katter,” A Current Affair said before Nirmal burst out laughing.
The federal MP took to the stage at the sisters’ weddings.
“And the other reason I want all the Sikhs to come here is because they got the most beautiful women I’ve ever seen in my life, starting with Nirmal’s wife and his daughters,” Katter said during his speech.
Katter is a good friend of the sisters’ father Nirmal, who runs a banana farm in North Queensland, where the girls were put to work growing up.
Nowadays, two are doctors and one a dentist, all graduating from the same university.
“Your poor dad. Does he have any money left?” A Current Affair joked.
“You’ll have to ask him,” the sisters laughed.
“Doesn’t matter, money goes,” Nirmal said. “But our biggest achievement is my best.”
Traditionally, Indian weddings are considered the biggest event of your life.
“Traditional Indian weddings, it’s kind of like sending your daughter away to her in-laws so I think emotionally it was really hard for all of our family, especially our parents,” Nirjyot said.
Nirmal had to say goodbye to all three daughters at the same time.
“So you all get on with the in-laws? It’s all happy families?” A Current Affair asked.
“I was thinking my daughter was best but my boys [are] even better than the daughters. They are unbelievable boys,” Nirmal said.
Of course, the sisters all jetted off on their honeymoons at the same time so who knows what comes next.
“Are you hoping for grand-babies at the same time now?” A Current Affair asked Nirmal.
“That’s their effort,” he laughed.
“You never know. No plans yet,” Nirjyot giggled.
Source: 9now.nine.com.au
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