
Originally Posted by
TheEschaton
So, actual reason I came to this thread: This morning my mother calls me and says that at 1 pm I *have to* go pick up this piece of jewelry for my sister's wedding from an Indian jeweler in Manhattan...it's been shipped from India, big deal, blah blah blah.
Nevermind that I don't like having to give up my lunch break to go pick up jewelry for a wedding which has utterly consumed the rest of my family, I can deal with that to an extent. So I go and pick up this necklace. Looks pretty gaudy, but in an Indian Hindu wedding sort of way (my sister's fiance's father is Hindu, so we're having a Hindu ceremony for his family). Hindu weddings are very elaborate, lots of clothing changes, lots of jewelry, lots of everything. But, the general implication is the jewelry is imitation jhumki stuff, because you need a lot of it.