Originally posted by: hope4u
I don't really get what you mean.. Every culture has a social wedding right? Just the customs differ. The legal wedding, ie registration of the marriage is what is recognized all over the world.
Very few cultures have weddings ceremonies that even without registration would be recognised in a court of law. India is exceptional in that way - and the main reason why the concept of registration under the civil code was even introduced in India historically was because many Hindu wedding were not recognised when people applied for international visas.
I kind of assumed that a wedding is a wedding and having this Daaga wedding versus wedding in front of everyone else is a itv thing and not a real concept. Like if one of you went and did a daaga wedding with out boyfriends - what would happen next?