BEAUTIFUL Pakistani Wedding in the Mountains (Super Rare)

[Music] this is jamalabad a small village in the mountains of pakistan it's home to a few families from the wahi community an ethnic group scattered across these lands a lucky coincidence brought me close to one of these families and they invited me to attend and document their eldest son's wedding but first we had a mission to complete i accompanied said one of the youngest sons on a wedding invitation run sayad so what are we doing here we are here to invite our relatives in fave's wedding [Music] no it's not easy in culture it's basically kind of impolite to call someone to invite them to your wedding you have to send a relative a family member in person to your family members homes in the other towns and villages and invite them personally now we don't always know the exact address of a family or a home in a village so we literally are walking around some of the villages and asking people do you know this guy do you know that guy where does he live where do we go and that's how we manage and trust me not every village was easy to get to oh my god i did it we did a break our invitation run took us far and wide into many villages and valleys in the area and then disaster struck of course something like this had to happen on our errands and invitations around flat tire my very first puncture in my life i'm gonna take it as a sign of good luck okay it looks like this progress being made we're fixing something this is the spare tire which looks really tiny to me and here we are starting to lift the car how exciting and back on track we had so many more invitations to give out we found out that kumaris is somewhere over there keep on driving apart from a punctured tire all had gone according to plan we managed to invite everybody to the upcoming wedding [Music] [Music] [Music] i forgot to iron my dupatta and knowing my ironing skills this will take a while [Music] this small kitchen ceremony right here this actually marks the very start of the wedding itself this is where we make seven flatbreads or shoppies to say welcome to the wedding [Music] all the shoppings that we've been making over the last 24 hours they have been scrunched up and now they will go into making a traditional dish called chamurky and this dish is shared as a kind of breakfast on a couple of days before the wedding to welcome guests into the wedding itself the milk that you see being poured into bowls here most of this milk has actually been brought by guests this is traditionally a way to say best wishes to the newlywed couple or soon to be welcome [Applause] the preparations have finally ended their final stages and now we're starting to slowly see a trickle of guests who are coming in to wish the family all the best for the wedding yes this is technically day one of the wedding but nobody is getting married just yet today is a day for the local families to get together share food and bestow blessings on the ceremonies to come [Music] so it's finally my turn to try the famous see how it tastes it is basically like a very milky smooth soupy kind of thing with spongebob bread inside it's probably good it's a lovely way here in the ceremony to start the wedding celebration at the end of the meal come the prayers [Music] it's expected of friends and important people in the community to give their blessings and wishes to the family [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] bye [Music] so [Music] the work on the shepherds has continued well into the morning we're on the next day of making lemon finally it's my chance to try and make one as well so i'm just about to start making one of the shapix one of the typical local breads that we make for weddings and that we have been making for the last 24 hours i believe i don't know how many have been made but i estimate about four to five hundred okay while i've been trying to make this one this lady over here has already made three i think grandma see i'm learning like this yeah okay all right ava's imperfect but done okay now we put it on the stove it's not a perfect circle but it's edible good good food meanwhile outside the men are busy with a very different kind of towel [Music] the cycle of life and death goes on as the bride prepares for the wedding in her house [Music] [Music] meanwhile back in the groom's house the preparations are in the final stages there's one more very important ceremony to come [Music] throughout the duration of oahu wedding there's quite a lot of different rites of passage and different ceremonies in this particular one which is called this one takes place just before the wedding one day before the wedding and it takes place at the group's house there's a separate ceremony at the same time in the bride's house this is where both of them get ready and get dressed for the wedding and where the initial blessings are bestowed upon them [Music] are you happy and just when you thought it's all serious blessings and stern faces the groom's family lined up a slightly less formal event so now that these blessings have been bestowed and the official part of the pre-wedding preparations are done and finished people start to party in honor of the happy couple and the lucky people sure know how to pass [Music] [Applause] hey that is a power cut and now we wait let's hope that this party didn't finish before it began [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] hey [Music] [Applause] [Music] finally it arrived the third day of the celebrations the day that everybody's been waiting for today praveez and parveen finally tie the knot wahi people have their own language music poetry and traditions these drums and trumpets you won't hear their music anywhere else only here my host family explained some of these traditions to me the wahi symbol i love the most is the eagle that soars high above the palmer mountains traditional wahi dances always mirror the movement of the graceful eagle [Music] next step the groom and his entourage drive over to the bride's village this is where the marriage will be sealed formerly in the jamaat khana the gathering place of ismaili muslims [Music] we've just arrived in the village of the bride gilcha and this is where the groom and the bride actually get married formerly in the jamaat that's just about to happen the new chapter is about to begin it's so exciting to see it [Music] [Music] oh wait that's not the kind of music they play at weddings in pakistan before we get to the big wedding party there's just a couple of formalities that we need to get out of the way first there's food the newlyweds first meal together this dish is called rajuntik and basically the sharing of the dish starts with the bride and groom they first get to try this smoky soup after them everybody else in the room gets a little spoon as well basically symbolizing that they get that they're getting a taste of the love from the newlyweds [Music] too foreign [Music] this is only the beginning we haven't even arrived at the big party yet for now the brides village celebrates the new union it's all very symbolic today is the day when praveen leaves her family village for good and that's why everybody gathers around her home to bid her a bittersweet farewell [Music] and just like that a new beginning the big party will take place in pervase's family home let the real celebrations begin [Music] [Music] and we're back the boys managed to fold up the tent faster than the wind and the party resumed in full swing [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] so i think now you can see what wahi weddings are really like there's a lot of dancing a lot of music a lot of pretending that you're an eagle high up in the palmyra mountains and a lot of fun and everybody takes part so that's what makes it so nice [Music] [Music] so [Music] you

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Id: MYDsjJivU8s

Length: 19min 13sec (1153 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 03 2021