Fined for kissing during marriage ceremony
If you think those Ipoh young couples slapped with summons for holding hands in the park by the Dewan Bandaraya fellas is badly treated… see this.
Reuters reported that an Israeli couple was fined 1,000 rupees after an Indian court found them guilty of obscenity for kissing during their marriage ceremony in a Hindu pilgrim town.
They infuriated the priest as they started to kiss and embrace while he was chanting vedic hymns. The priest, along with other Hindu holy men, complained to police, who filed charges against the couple.
“We will not tolerate any cultural pollution of this sort,” Ladoo Ram Sharma, president of an organization of Hindu priests in Pushkar, was quoted as saying.
Well, in this case… you may NOT kiss the bride in India. 
September 22nd, 2005 at 1:49 pm
Actually even in traditional church weddings, u need permission from the pastor before you can kiss – “You may kiss the bride”
If the pastor was reading scripture and the couple start kissing, is also a bit rude rite…
September 22nd, 2005 at 3:40 pm
Hah… maybe they have been waiting all their lives to do it and the priest kept going and going, so they just went for it lah!
May 25th, 2010 at 11:36 am
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