Handstands And Dancing: Wedding Shoots Can Give Talent Shows A Run For Money

They say marriage is not easy. But it looks like a cakewalk, compared to some of the stunts one may have to perform at their wedding photoshoots today. The phenomenon of getting creative with wedding captures is not a new one. Remember our parents' wedding videos, where a hundred copies of the bride's face floated around on the screen in a spiral that video editors at the time thought was the pinnacle of aesthetic?

As those vintage styles of wedding albums went out of vogue, new ones replaced them - and how! Earlier, wedding shoots were just a by-product of the event. Now, it seems a wedding is rendered almost invalid if not accompanied by a flashy pre and post photoshoot.

One such marvellous moment, purportedly from a wedding shoot, is going viral on social media. An undated video being widely shared shows a man, believed to be the groom, pulling off an effortless handstand, while the decked bride stands beside him, on her feet, albeit in dramatic dance poses.

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Handstand wedding photoshoot: brides and grooms deserve to have some fun

Everyone dreams of their own fairytales. For some, this could be showing off their superior gymnastic skills on the big day. For others, it could be something close to their passions. Two years ago, when Bangladeshi cricketer Sanjida Islam got married, she reportedly got pictures taken while playing her sport elaborately dressed up in a saree.

It appears brides and grooms today are not averse to capturing their weddings in out-of-the-box ways. The older generations would have us believe that the only correct way of partaking in your own wedding is behaving as if life has ended - not that a new life has begun.

For men, the rules have unsurprisingly been more lax always. It is almost customary for the groom to be excessively jubilant at his own wedding, dancing and singing, having fun as fun should be had. The bride, however, is traditionally expected to put on her best somber face, eyes downcast all the time, and be the opposite of fun.

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It is encouraging to know that many new-age brides are ditching the melancholic act to go for a more upbeat approach at weddings - whether through extraordinary stunts that would give television talent shows a run for their money, or through imitations of classic Bollywood sequences, or by making profound convention-breaking statements.

This bride from Kolkata, for instance, took the wheel to drive her groom to her in-laws' house after the wedding, instead of the standard that calls for the couple being driven together, and in some cases, the groom to drive.

Indian weddings are absolute carnivals. Families gush with pride, guests are satiated with good food and drink, friends keep it lively with running jokes. Only the bride and groom almost always miss out on the fun, kept busy with rituals and affectations... and photoshoots, of course.

But if there's any joy for them at all in the cumbersome-looking stunts they have to pull to keep a record of their wedding for posterity, then it makes it all worth it, doesn't it? Even if that means the social media feeds of the people they know will be inundated with photos for days to come.

Views expressed are the author's own.