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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