Traditional Indian Blowout

• By Rebecca Milzoff

Mayuri Amuluru & Kash Chandra

Guastavino’s, April 10, 2010

Mayuri Amuluru and Kash Chandra’s wedding was a massive, elaborately executed affair, but not the kind of nuptials they first set out to have. �Originally we wanted a destination wedding; we thought if we had to have this big, crazy Indian wedding, maybe we should just do it elsewhere,� says Mayuri, 30. But they ultimately ended up celebrating in New York alongside 300 family members and friends. (�This, by the way, was small for my mom, who wanted 700,� Mayuri adds.) Their wedding blended the families’ traditions�Kash, 32, is North Indian and Thai, while Mayuri is South Indian�with more Western leanings, like a first dance to Peter Gabriel’s cover of the Magnetic Fields’ �The Book of Love.� According to Bengali custom, family friends hooted to dispel negative energy when Mayuri entered the wedding at Guastavino’s. �There were many weird moments like that,� Mayuri laughs. �I fought my mom because I didn’t want the whole long Indian wedding, but I look back on it fondly now�it was nice.�