Tourists from abroad are paying for tickets to attend Indian weddings!

Indian weddings are the most vibrant and beautiful weddings in the whole world, and curious foreign tourists in India couldn’t have found a better way to experience the Indian culture.
According to the news reports, a wedding start-up known as Join My Wedding has turned into a platform to help tourists from abroad attend Indian weddings by paying up $200 or so for a couple of days more of festivities.

Foreigners curious to know more about the Indian heritage through weddings because it displays all the cultural features, such as: the food, people, dances, songs, rituals, dresses and much more. And since the Indian weddings are known throughout the world, many foreign tourists would want to attend them either through a personal connection or some other source. That’s why the idea of a start-up has come into play.
So, the next obvious question is, how does this business works? Here are the basic steps:

• The Indian couples due to get married have to register their wedding details on the website.
• International tourists visiting India can purchase tickets to the wedding they wish to attend
• The Indian couples cum wedding hosts take a meaty share of the ticket money, but the start-up also earns its fee.
• Both the parties meet up or have a phone chat to get acquainted with each other. The guests are given tips on what to wear to suit the occasion and what to look forward to at the wedding functions.

Other factors that attract foreign tourists to Indian weddings are:

• It offers safety because foreign guests are looked after by others attending the event.
• Many tourism operators are making customized packages to facilitate tourists from abroad attend Indian weddings.
• Indian weddings are free-spirited, colourful, and there are many impromptu elements involved. On the contrary, the western/church weddings are very structured.

And given the fact that the wedding business in India is safe from recession, we can expect more and more foreign tourists fulfilling their desire to behold a true Indian wedding.