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India Wedding Photo Gallery
Photographs by Steve McCurry

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ejal (seated, wearing a purple top) finished most of her shopping weeks before the wedding but pops over to Udaipur's main shopping bazaar to fill some last-minute needs. Here she shops for costume jewelry and glass bangles. "Throughout the wedding week she will have something like 15 outfit changes," says McLane. "And every new costume requires a stack of five or six inches of matching bangles on each arm."

Read more in "My Big Fat Indian Wedding" in the October 2007 issue of National Geographic Traveler.

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