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A young woman in a plain white churidar with a white dupatta stands at a table heaped with white jasmine flowers, bowing her head as a woman in an orange and purple silk sari with gold border places a white jasmine garland over her shoulders. Beside them, a woman in a magenta sari with gold border and a woman in a purple and orange sari, wearing gold necklaces and a black beaded mangalsutra, hold out a folded paper slip toward the table. Other people in white and coloured clothes stand under a tiled covered walkway in the background. Jasmine garlands and a flower-decorated table suggest a garlanding or reception line.

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