A wedding in India took a morbid turn when the bride collapsed and died just before completing her wedding rituals. Instead, the groom ended up marrying her younger sister on the same day – with the original bride’s body lying in another room.
The incident took place May 27 in the village of Samaspur, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, per The Times of India. The wedding was between a woman named Surbhi and a man named Mangesh Kumar from the nearby village of Nawli.
The two were exchanging traditional flower garlands during a ceremony called the jaimala when Surbhi collapsed onstage. A doctor rushed to treat her but later declared that she died from a heart attack, per the local news outlet News 18.
The day’s festivities continued, however, but with a different bride. While Surbhi’s body lay in another room in the house, the nuptials carried on with her younger sister Nisha replacing her.
“We did not know what to do in the situation. Both the families sat together and someone suggested that my younger sister Nisha should be married to the groom,” Surbhi’s brother Saurabh told the local news channel TV9.
“It was a tough call for our family. One daughter lay dead in one room and the wedding of another daughter was being solemnized in the other room,” Surbhi’s uncle Ajab Singh told TV9.
Them SOB’s are crazy anyway. Hey, I’ll take the younger stuff. Better deal.
Good compromise.
‘Til death do us part, literally.
Since it was reported on TV, newspaper must have buried the lede..
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