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Kōrero: Indians

Indian weddings

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Indian weddings

Jayesh and Manisha Morar are pictured at their Hindu wedding at Wellington in January 1998. Manisha wears a sharara wedding dress of red – a colour that symbolises life, joy, energy, abundance, fertility and marital bliss.

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Nancy Swarbrick, Indians – Religion and kin, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/1845/indian-weddings (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Nancy Swarbrick, i tāngia i te 4 March 2009, updated 1 July 2024.