Wedding Crashers

Jaisalmer, Rajasthan

It's wedding season here and we've been witness to many a procession + party simply by looking out a bus window or walking down the street. It's a sure sign when you see a turbaned, young man astride a horse in full decoration trailing a string of men + women, all dressed in their finest and most colorful. The part that's really fun is that these processions make their way through town with live musical accompaniment. Usually, a man pushes along a chromed, wheeled cart with several huge megaphone speakers attached, music blaring. Sometimes there's a live brass band too. A typical wedding often hosts a thousand or more people, but for this part everyone's welcome. Oh yes, and if it's an evening wedding? Well you just have some young boys carry fluorescent tubes connected to a rolling genny.