Make marriage with your Valentine - Protesters tell couples in India

On Valentine's Day some Hard line Hindu groups had requested young couples not to visit parks with their Valentine & this time they lived up to it too. The loving couple from Vijayawada in South India would never have imagined that their outing on Valentine's Day in a Park shall enter for their wedlock in a few minutes.

Yes it happened with 23-year-old Vijay and 19-year-old Durga who set out for an outing in the Rajiv Gandhi Park in the city on Wednesday evening.

Vijay, an autorickshaw driver from Bhavanipuram, was sitting pretty with his ladylove and enjoying the snacks when a band of Bajrang Dal activists(Protesters) came to the park & started raising slogans against the practice of celebrating the Valentine's Day.

The activists, who were equipped with the basic material required for performing a marriage, such as a `mangalasutram' of only yellow thread and without the usual gold, some 'kumkum' and 'akshintalu' ( things used for a Hindu wedding), insisted that the boy tie the knot around the girl's neck if their love was true. The bashful couple had little choice but to heed to their advice, and the activists presided over their 'instant' marriage. The hunt continued as activists moved on to a nearby park to perform more 'marriages'.

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Marriage of Elephants

In India there are auspicious days when thousands of people wed on a particular day, as it happened on 13th December,2006 when 36,000 couples married in New-Delhi, the capital of India only. But what shall you say to a wedding of two Elephants, yes the marriage of two elephants that happened in Kerala.

To promote a beach resort in southern India, two elephants were dressed up as bride and groom for a mock-wedding ceremony to entertain the guests at a beach resort in Kovalam in Kerala state of India. Raju the name given to Groom was a 12-year-old elephant, while Rani, the name given to his bride was two years younger than the male counterpart. Both bride & groom elephants were wearing gold head-dresses for the hour-long ceremony, while temple music was playing in the background & fireworks were also there during the marriage ceremony.

Many of the foreign tourists enjoyed the occasion & around 180 foreign tourists attended the event.

Read more: Elephants wed at Indian beach resort.

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