Sarika dances through the wedding procession amid family and friends

PLAYING A JOYFUL VIDEO MOMENT • SILENT

✦CHAPTER THREE • SARIKA & VARAD

Wedding festivities.

Five jewel-toned chapters: getting ready, celebration, rituals, candid joy, and the luminous afterglow.

Black and white portrait during wedding festivities — 01
A monochrome pause
The calm between getting ready and stepping into celebration.

Sarika seated in purple festive clothes — 02
Jewel-toned evening
Purple, gold, and a smile brighter than both.

Sarika smiling in purple wedding attire — 03
Her celebration portrait
A small still moment before the wonderful noise.

Sarika with a friend at the wedding celebration — 04
With the women who showed up
Family, friendship, and the joy of being surrounded.

✦EIGHT JOYFUL MOMENTS • MADE FROM THE ORIGINAL VIDEOS

Because photographs were never going to contain all of it.

Two friends burst into laughter as snow falls from the branches above them — VIDEO 01Snow from the branches, laughter from both sides

Friends throw their arms up in an exuberant living-room dance — VIDEO 02A living-room dance circle forgets the living room

Three people share an easy laugh around an outdoor snack table — VIDEO 03The snack table loses to a very good laugh

A colorful daytime pre-wedding dance circle fills the courtyard — VIDEO 04Sunshine, dhol, and a courtyard full of motion

Friends perform a coordinated dance on a flower-filled wedding stage — VIDEO 05Friends turn the flower-filled stage into a performance

Sarika laughs and claps as a reception dance circle turns toward friends — VIDEO 06Sarika claps, laughs, and pulls the whole circle closer

Several generations share a spirited home dance circle — VIDEO 07Several generations, one gloriously unserious dance floor

Sarika dances through the wedding procession amid family and friends — VIDEO 08The wedding procession becomes everybody’s stage

Eight short, silent GIF loops chosen after reviewing 236 original videos. Reduced-motion visitors receive still photographs.

✦A NOTE ON THIS CHAPTER

To Sarika and Varad—may the afterglow keep finding you.

This gallery is part celebration, part time capsule, and entirely full of people who were delighted to be there.

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