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Weddings at the Edge of the World
  + stars: | 2023-10-28 | by ( Sakeina Syed | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
To reach their wedding venue, Austin O’Reilly and Iulia O’Reilly crossed a swaying suspension bridge, trying not to glance down at the glacial river below. “You’re just hanging on for dear life and knowing that your wedding is at the other end of this trek,” at an altitude of 17,600 feet, Mr. O’Reilly said. When looking for a wedding venue in 2022, nothing felt right. “My dad jokingly was like, ‘What about Everest?’” Ms. O’Reilly, 26, said. “We really wanted something that would challenge us and represent our love for each other” said Mr. O’Reilly, an accountant at Deloitte.
Persons: Austin O’Reilly, Iulia O’Reilly, O’Reilly, , Organizations: Seton Hall University, Deloitte Locations: New York, New Jersey
The wedding drew students from India, Pakistan, Nepal and other South Asian regions, as well as those who are not South Asian. Mock wedding events have existed in various forms for decades. In Canada, a musical group called Betta Boyz hosted a large mock Nigerian wedding at a Calgary banquet hall in July 2022. Bollywood films, reality television shows like “Indian Matchmaking” and magazine spreads featuring “ultrarich weddings” all contribute to wedding-related fervor. “There is this entire media industry around images of glamorous, luxurious, extravagant, highly indulgent weddings,” she said.
Persons: Sumayyah Muhit, , Ms, Muhit, Rijuta Mehta Organizations: Bengali, New York Institute of Technology, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Twitter, University of Toronto Locations: India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sylhet, Bangladesh, Asia, Canada, Calgary, South Asia
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