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A wedding ceremony in a flower-decorated hall with white pillars and hanging floral arches. A bride in a red and gold sari with jasmine and pink garlands sits on an orange cloth beside a groom in a white dhoti and shirt. A standing older woman in a grey sari with red border and a man in white kurta receive garlands, while a priest in a white dhoti sits before a tray of fruit, coconuts and brass kalasha pots. Several women in silk saris and a boy in a dark suit stand behind, and a white-clad man stands at the right in a cream sherwani. Brass oil lamps and flower offerings lie in the foreground.

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