After years together as a couple, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have decided to tie the knot. In an obvious move for a man born in Oklahoma and a woman born in L.A., the pair are planning a Hindu wedding in Jodhpur, India.
Actually, it all makes sense. You see, the Hindu priest who will be front and centre at the wedding is reported to have saved Brangelina’s relationship through couples’ yoga and meditation, and so the famous couple is going to get hitched at his ashram.
Celebrities, they’re just like us.
And while Hinduism is more than meditation and couples’ yoga, Brad and Angie aren’t the only ones who are apparently bored by the traditional white wedding and lured by the exoticism of India.
In October, the singer Katy Perry and actor Russell Brand were married at a luxury resort in India. It was a “very private and spiritual ceremony,” according to People magazine. Luxury resorts always offer the best spiritual ceremonies. Everybody knows that.
The lovely couple’s wedding also involved an elephant and Brand performed the “bharat,” a traditional Indian wedding procession where the groom and his male relatives walk to where the bride is waiting.
Pitt and Jolie’s wedding is set to take place next year.
If my guru was around I could ask him, but since he’s not I’ll ask you: Is it okay for a couple to appropriate a culture they have pretty much zero connection to in order to make their nuptials glamorous?
