Jaideep Jadhav, 30, a mountaineer and pharma marketer, and his bride
Reshma Patil, married in this unique fashion on Sunday in the Western
Ghats in India.
In order to create awareness about adventure sports, the courageous
couple decided to make their marriage a live example, said their mentor
Vinod Kamboj, President of Western Mountain Sports, Kolhapur, who
organised the wedding.
The "arranged marriage" of Jaideep-Reshma
was literally taken to a different level -- and the wedding ceremony was
performed mid-air in the valley between the 3,000-feet tall peaks of
Vishalgadh and Panhala, around 15 km from the base village Bhattali on
Sunday morning.
A third critical 'hanger-on', in the form of 35-year-old professional
priest Suraj Dholi was close at hand mid-air for the ceremony witnessed
by over 1,200 people, including some 1,000 villagers and the rest
comprising relatives and invitees from both sides.
Jadhav and
Reshma were both attired in traditional Maharashtrian wedding dress, and
tied onto tough, double nylon-fibre ropes, with supports.
The
entire process -- from the time they were tied to the ropes, went
through the wedding rituals mid-air and alighted -- took around 40
minutes, Kamboj told IANS.
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