The night before the wedding we had a grand dance party. Almost everyone (foreign guests included) came dressed in Indian style and looking great!

Kristina and Kavita, the bride

Nathan, Irina and Emily

One of the bride's sister's friends is a choreographer, so we spent the afternoon learning various bollywood-like dances to be performed that night. Somehow I got roped into being one of the dancers that had to flirt with the groom in one of the dances. I don't have any pictures of this yet, but will post them when/if I get any.

We had such great fun performing all the dances we practiced. None were perfect, but all were enjoyed by everyone.

the choreographer, brother and siter of the bride dance

some of the guests perform their dance

After the choreographed dances, we all participated in the traditional Indian wedding stick dance, called the garba . I had seen this in movies about Indian weddings and was so excited to try my hand at it. It proved to be extremely fun and not difficult at all.

Emily's ready to dance!

the aunties dance the garba

After the garba, many people took to the floor in freestyle dancing - mostly Indian style!

The father of the bride gets his dance on

Kristina gets roped into the spinning dance.

This is my last post from India. The pictures from the wedding and post-wedding were posted several weeks ago. Check the archives.