You would never know it by looking at her, but Sri Ramya had been awake since 3am on the morning of her wedding day. In fact, neither the bride or the groom - Krishna Teja - had barely slept in three days.
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The sleep deprivation was partially due to the amount of ceremonies and preparation that needed to take place in the lead-up to their big day.
Yet according to the wedding guests who spoke to the Central Western Daily at the spectacular traditional Hindu ceremony that took place at Orange's CWA Hall, the size of the affair had to be scaled back due to COVID-19 restrictions.
Wedding guest Binu Nair explained that at most traditional Indian Hindu weddings, the event goes for three days and the number of guests starts at 1000. At his own wedding, he added, there were around 2000.
"You need to invite the whole town or you get complaints from people," he said.
Due to the pandemic, no more than 50 people were allowed at Wednesday's wedding, with many others, including the groom's own parents being unable to attend because they were in southern India.
As an arranged marriage, Sri Ramya's mother Anantha Maddirala explained that her daughter and her new husband met for the first time just two months previously.
The mother-of-the-bride said that the family began looking for a suitable husband for their 22-year-old daughter in March. After Sri Ramya met 28-year-old Krishna Teja, an IT-specialist from Sydney, it was left up to the couple if they wanted to marry.
That day came just two months later with a 3.15am-start before the more public part of the ceremony began at the CWA Hall shortly after 8am.
The interior of the venue was rendered unrecognisable by a huge, meticulously-designed alter which was made largely from flowers and reached almost to the ceiling.
Proceedings were conducted by a revered Hindu priest or "Achar".
One of his many duties involved deciphering the precise time the couple needed to be wed at - which was determined by the alignment of the planets.
Thus, at precisely 9.27am, the bride and groom quite literally tied the knot to signify their eternal matrimony.
After that, the more informal ceremonies of the event began, including pouring rice over each other's heads to much laughter and encouragement from their friends and family.
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