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Dia Mirza shared a glimpse from her wedding ceremony on Instagram.
Actress Dia Mirza, who married businessman Vaibhav Rekhi on February 15, revealed in an Instagram post this morning that the couple chose to forgo the traditional rituals of
Kanyadaan and
Bidaai because change begins with choice. Dia Mirza turned traditional rituals on their head at her wedding - her Vedic wedding ceremony was conducted by a woman priest, Sheela Atta. In her post, the 39-year-old actress said that it was time for women to own their own agency and to redefine what is old.
Kanyadaan is a ritual that symbolises the father giving his daughter away to her husband, while
Pic: Dia Mirza Twitter
Dia Mirza is being lauded for having a priestess perform the wedding ceremony and the actress recently opened up about how managed to rope in Sheela Atta to oversee all the rituals. “The highest point for us was the Vedic ceremony conducted by a woman priest! I had never seen a woman performing a wedding ceremony until I attended my childhood friend Ananya’s wedding a few years ago. Ananya’s wedding gift to Vaibhav and me was to bring Sheela Atta who is her aunt and also a priestess, to perform the ceremony for us. She also painstakingly went through several hours of training to imbibe the essence of the scriptures so that she could assist Sheela Atta and translate the shlokas! It was such a privilege and a joy to be married this way!”