How many weddings have you had...In Your HOUSE!?

We were originally asked if the women of the Groom could stay in our house the night of the wedding. Of course we said yes and started planning on having lots of women staying in our house. So the day before the wedding, the tent goes up and some of the food arrives. I start to get a little concerned when the tent started being erected on our porch, but then I figured our porch was an extension of the roof so I tried to ignore it. The next morning I was rudely interrupted at around 5:30am to the sound of banging and shouting on our roof. I walked into our living room to find the bride and the Pundit (priest) performing the bridal ceremony. After a few minutes I walked back outside to find more people on our porch putting up more decoration. (Picture: Bride sitting on my bed. Obvisouly the best place for bridal pictures) then slowly slowly more and more people start to arrive. At this point I'm a little concerned and confused as to what is going on. Then, the only thing I can describe is some kind of organized chaos. Our Uncle has said the Groom's side of the family were going to be staying at our house, what I soon realise though is that the Bride's side of the family is having the wedding IN our house. As in not on the roof, not in our Uncle's house, but it OUR house. Due to a little miscommunication we found out that our Uncle and tried to tell us, they were having the wedding in our house, it's only a shame we only found out about it when it was actually happening. It was more like everyone else knew what was going on except us.
We have been witnesses to many weddings over the past 10months or so, but this is the first wedding we have personally hosted. We mingled and tried to be good hotesses, but we didn't really know what was expected of us, so we ended up just sitting and talking with people. The food was prepared upstairs on the roof, in the cow's old house, and the ceremony was held in our house. The bride and her side of the family do a ceremony before the groom arrives, then there's a ceremony with both sides and then the groom takes his bride back to his house. Before the Groom's side arrived we all ate and headed inside because it started to rain. The Groom's side sat on the roof, and watched the couple's ceremony from there, while the Bride's side watched from our house. The Bride and Groom meet with the Hindu Pundits and the quite lengthy ceremony began. The only thing I can say about the ceremony is that there was lots of water pouring and flower throwing. Then the bride and groom circle round the fire 7 times. This is to ensure that the Bride has the same husband for the next seven lives. After the ceremony, everyone eats and then after some time the Bride and Groom leave. Around 11pm April and I snuck into our room and tried to get some rest. Despite the trumpets and horns in the band I was able to sleep some, and the next morning the cleaning started! PHEUW! It was a lot of fun, despite the cold and the rain, and mess. It was quite an experience, and I doubt many other people have had the opportunity to house their own National Wedding.