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Grand wedding entrance - desi ishtyle

By: Santosh :+: Under: Culture, Desi Ishtyle, It Happens Only in India
On: ⋅ July 17, 2008 ⋅  Email this post ⋅  Print this post ⋅ Post a comment
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We @ Über Desi are vary vary family-like - loving, nosy and overbearing. So much that we’re already planning the baraats of our yet-to-be-married resident bloggers [1,2] even without marriage dates or in some cases, without potential brides. So when we heard about rich grooms in India arriving at the wedding venues in choppers, we decided that was it, matter settled. Until we came across this ….. [BBC]

Switching the sehra for sky diving helmets
img: via BBC

Shishir Mishra, an Indian airforce sky diver, not only arrived in a chopper but actually jumped off the chopper to parachute into his own wedding.

Mr Mishra jumped at around 7,000 feet from a helicopter and landed in a crowded sports ground just a short distance away from his bride’s home. He and three fellow skydivers freefell before opening their parachutes a few hundred feet from the ground.

And why would anyone do such a risky stunt on the day of his wedding?

Mr Mishra said that his novel way of arriving was not done solely to impress his future bride - he wanted to promote and popularise skydiving in the state. “I have been thinking of a skydiving demonstration in Orissa for some time now. But the idea of doing something on the occasion of my marriage struck me after I read about a couple in Maharashtra getting married in a hot air balloon recently,” he said.

Shishir Mishra is an accomplished sky diver with over 22,000 free falls including one with a national flag in hand.

Unfortunately, our yet-to-be-married bloggers turned down this idea for a grand entrance at their future weddings, whenever that may be. The overriding factor seems to be not fear of heights but fear of exposure - they’ll most likely be wearing veshtis for the wedding ceremony.

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