A Shinto san-san-kudo is the ceremonial exchange of sake cups three times three, a profound blessing for the couple’s union. A chapel wedding is often a separate, dress-and-tuxedo ceremony for photographs. But I have seen that for many families, the true essence is not in the location or the ritual itself, but in the precise, reverential *mugam*, or pattern, of the movements, much like the sacred geometry in a temple border of a kanjivaram. Just as a young bride recognizes a ‘kandangi’ by its feel and story, the depth is in the practiced, inherited grace of the act.
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