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Here, a wedding is a day. Sure, there might be showers, but as far as extended wedding partying goes, we're small potatoes. You want wild wedding partying? Head to India.

Indian tradition dictates that in the days leading up to a wedding, there be parties for the bride, the groom, the families and friends. A family might throw five parties in a week, each of them as opulent as the family can afford. Or more. Families have been known to go bankrupt financing a wedding. Tens of thousands of dollars are spent, more if you have them -- and that's before the wedding even happens!

Many Indian wedding are planned according to the bride and groom's astrological signs. There will be auspicious and inauspicious days. Add to that India's super-hot summer weather, and what you get are quite literally thousands of wedding happening on an auspicious day at a cool time of year. In Delhi, a city of 14 million, there can be as many as 15,000 weddings happening on certain days, causing "dusk-to-dawn gridlock". Fifteen THOUSAND weddings in one city on one day? Now that's over-the-top wedding mayhem!