You?ve seen desert weddings and you?ve seen desert festivals, but have you seen a desert wedding festival" That?s what Reena + Shane?s ?India to Indio? celebration captured by Rad + In Love was. And YES, it looks as awesome as it sounds. Both first generation Indian Americans, planning a wedding meant incorporating Indian traditions, two religious ceremonies (Sikh + Hindu) with an *intimate* 300 guests, an epic Sangeet and an epic reception? All while staying true to their artistic (they met at a film festival in SF, after all) laidback, personalities.
Reena says, Our wedding was a true expression of our personalities and a mix of cultures. It danced the line that we live everyday as being Western and Eastern. Cakies, if any of you are looking to strike a similar balance?be sure to read her story below. It?s so, so good!
Besides incorporating both of their cultural backgrounds, they had two personal musts?that it be outdoors and that it have killer music. Enter, a Sikh-Hindu wedding with a desert concert under the stars. And while parents are usually super involved in Indian weddings, they were doing something so new that both of theirs agreed to let them take the reigns in creating their own ceremony.

The groom’s baraat (processional) transportation was the LA Rickshaw, which became a rad film booth where guests could create a video ‘guest book’ later on in the night.

Their first ceremony was the Sikh one, which had to be compl...