Bendooley Estate in Bowral. The stables and the book barn.

Same venue, different weddings. I’ll be returning here two more times this year, so I’ll update this post with those weddings!

Vendors were given delicious meals and a table in a separate room to eat. I loved it!

It’s amazing being about to paint weddings from other cultures and experience how they celebrate the happy couple. Hindu weddings are so vibrant and joyful with lots of music, dancing and sacred rituals.

Three of these weddings were in the same venue.

Three of these weddings used the same mandap. The golden mandap took so long to paint, I’m actually glad I haven’t had to paint it again despite being so beautiful.

I’ve organised my Hindu live wedding paintings according to the moments I captured:

Tying of the tali/mangalsutra/the sacred golden necklace, which the groom ties around the bride’s neck towards the end of the ceremony.

Both of these weddings involved the bride completing a saree change during the ceremony. In the first painting, the bride changed from a blue to an orange saree. In the second, the bride changed from a white to a red saree. The first painting was my first Hindu wedding ever, so I didn’t know this and had painted her in blue first, then had to paint over her after she changed.

Walking around the sacred fire with the groom leading the bride.

Wedding couple announcement while holding hands.

First dance.

I’ll be updating this with other Hindu weddings I do in future! Until then, for any readers out there, I’d love to know:

Which dress is your fave?
Which moment is your fave?
And which mandap is your fave?