Kristi Klemens asked me to cover this event for her and I jumped at the chance!  Any time I can learn about a new culture and I’m there!

On 08-08-08 I attended my first Garba.  You can see the full definition of this dance here. This takes place the night before the actual wedding and involves Mehndi, dancing and lots of food! 

I drove up to Camarillo to photograph this, here are the first two things I saw at the restaurant: 

The beautiful bride to be!

The groom’s sister applies makeup to the bride.  That is her groom next to her.

And the dancing begins!

Towards the end of the night a silly string fight broke out!  I did not get out of the way fast enough and ended up with some string on me!  

The bride wanted in on making a mess too!

One last shot before the party ended!