18000 widows were invited to this Indian wedding<\/strong><\/h4>\nUnlike the Ambani family weddings studded with Bollywood celebs and diplomats from the US, the wedding of a Gujarati businessman\u2019s son was graced by 18,000 widows in 2017.<\/strong> Jitendra Patel, a diamond merchant of Mehsana invited widows from all over Gujarat to his son\u2019s wedding in order to break the taboo that widows\u2019 presence in a wedding brings bad luck to the newlywed couple. Further, each of the widows returned with a blanket and a sapling. Of them were 500 economically disadvantaged widows, each of who was given a milking cow for sustenance. Evidently, it was one of the most unusual Indian weddings.<\/p>\nBudget for this Indian wedding funds wedding of 100 poor girls<\/strong><\/h4>\nGopal Vastapara, a real estate merchant from Gujarat, got his son married in one of unusual Indian weddings. He held a simple ceremony and spent the savings to fund the wedding of 100 underprivileged girls in his village in 2016.<\/strong> He not only bore wedding expenses for those girls of Chamardi Village in Amreli district of Gujarat, but also gifted them household items. Unlike the Ambanis who spent Rs. 3 lakh on the daughter\u2019s wedding card per invitee, Gopal Vastapara pledged to sponsor mass weddings for economically weaker families for the next 10 years.<\/p>\nThis Indian wedding\u2019s budget funds homes for 90 needy families<\/strong><\/h4>\nUnlike the Ambanis who have planned for their son Akash Ambani\u2019s bachelor party in Switzerland for crores, Maharashtra-based businessman Manoj Munot built homes for 90 underprivileged families<\/strong> using the money he had saved for his daughter\u2019s wedding. He allotted Rs. 1.5 crore to the building of 90 cottages for the needy by relinquishing the extravagance of big fat Indian weddings. 90 poor families including his servants got access to safe drinking water and electricity at their new residence. All thanks to unusual Indian weddings!<\/p>\nThis Indian wedding\u2019s budget funds RO water plant for rural people<\/strong><\/h4>\nJayant Bhole and his family from Maharashtra made headlines for choosing philanthropy over the pomp of lavish Indian weddings in 2017. Their only son\u2019s wedding was devoid of the trappings of big fat Indian weddings, like royal feasting, flamboyant settings and chopper flights.<\/strong> Jayant Bhole donated a lump sum from the wedding budget to help build a RO water plant for the people of Varkhede village in Jalgaon District of Maharashtra. They spent neither on firecrackers nor on band baja for the wedding.<\/p>\nThis Indian bride asked for 10,000 saplings instead of gold<\/strong><\/h4>\nUnlike the richest Indian billionaire\u2019s daughter Isha Ambani who received a Rs-450-crore sea-facing bungalow from her in-laws, Priyanka Bhadoria, a 22-year-old science graduate in Madhya Pradesh, asked for 10,000 saplings instead of gold and diamonds as a wedding gift from her in-laws<\/strong>. Conscious of widespread deforestation and depleting water level in her village, Priyanka broke loose from the age-old tradition and stunned everyone with her unusual wish for the ceremonial gift. In another unusual Indian wedding, a bride in Haryana interrupted the nuptial proceeding before taking the seven wedding vows and asked the groom to promise that he would fund the education of 11 needy girls.<\/p>\n