Wedding season!

The "winter" (it is still mid 20's to 30 degrees!!) months bring many weddings as the weather is less sweaty I guess! This first wedding is of a Christian friend who goes to Church in the fellowship that used to meet in the ground floor of the hospital's main building, but now meets in a hall to the rear of our HIV/AIDS project that I work in.

Christians in India tend to be fairly strict with themselves, and are very disciplined. They tend not to drink any alcohol, and dating is fairly frowned upon. In fact arranged marriages are common even in Christian circles, as are large dowry gifts. This lovely couple actually met through Church. There were a lot of difficult circumstances surrounding their engagement and marriage, and it was lovely last week to go to a bible study in their married home, and have a meal afterwards. I am sure that they will have a very fruitful future.