So, someone's having a wedding.
We're on YouTube. Me and my friend.
We can go in, look?
Oh, good, ah.
Okay. Oh wow.
Just invite ourselves into somebody's village wedding.
Which country?
Me? I'm from Sri Lanka. I'm from Colombo.
And you?
Scotland. Scotland.
Why do they have the wedding on a Monday?
Everyone working today, or?
Today's a holiday or no?
Not holiday. Not holiday?
Why they have the wedding on a Monday?
Today late wedding day.
Wedding day, right? Wedding day.
Nobody will be working in the village?
They will just, everyone will come to the wedding?
Eh, lunch time only, people coming.
Oh, they coming for lunch time and then going back to their job?
Relations also [inaudible].
Really? Ah, okay.
Other man.... Lunch time wedding? That's good.
Convenient for people.
So this is the bride's house.
Yeah this, what is this? Their house or this is?
It's the bride house. Bride house.
Ah, so they've set up this big tent in their back garden to host the wedding.
That's nice.
So, the girls are there. They're all colourful
but the dudes, they're wearing black.
Why you wear black to a wedding?
Like black colour.
I'm also wearing black, by the way.
We are photography team.
You are what? Photograph, photograph.
You are photographers?
Oh, you're not the guests. You're like working to take the photographs.
Ah, I understand. Ah, okay.
We can eat? Yes.
Really, ah? Very nice. Come.
Really? Oh, that's very nice. Thank you.
Okay, so
apparently we've been invited in for lunch to the wedding.
That's nice. I would have skipped the ice cream I just had about 20 minutes ago
if I knew that was gonna happen.
Do feel a little bit guilty coming in here wearing shorts and t-shirt
but, oh wow, this is beautiful.
So beautiful.
So they've got some sort of temple-y thing going on here
and, oh wow.
Look at the little girls.
They look amazing.
Hello. How are you?
Hi. Hi.
You look really nice. Everyone looks really nice.
Everyone from the little girls to the grandmas.
You look beautiful. This is very nice. Beautiful, beautiful.
Beautiful.
Hi, hi, hi. Hi.
Hi.
Hello.
Wow.
Okay, this is fun.
A little bit of an awkward situation but
never mind.
Hi, how are you? Fine.
Good.
Okay, and this is where the food is.
So that's where we are.
Sitting down.
Gonna get some grub. Haha, nice!
Oh, amazing.
Wow!
He's just brought us this plate of food.
Thank you very much. Wow!
This looks like better than the food at the hotel.
It is indeed.
Okay.
Brilliant.
It looks like it's with the hand, as well.
I'm pretty sure at a traditional Tamil wedding they don't have cutlery
so, let's dig right in.
Like this, right?
Yeah, he's like "Just go ahead. Just go ahead."
"In you go!" Okay.
Here we go.
Everyone laughing. Everyone laughing.
I can do this. I can do this, right?
Good?
Oh it's nice.
Very nice. This the dal, right?
I'm eating the dal.
This the dal, yeah?
Nice.
We've got Onion,
looks like this, they're not vegetarians here because this is chicken.
Ohhh.
Nice and spicy.
How are you? I'm fine.
You eat already?
Oh he's shy. That's how you are. You're shy.
He just ran away from me.
Okay.
Mmmm.
Very nice.
This is nice food.
What are you saying to it?
It's really good.
My first invasion.
[laughter]
Oh, this for us? Water.
Thank you very much sir. Thank you very much.
Thank you very much.
This is nice.
Hi.
Ohhhh.
Fireworks? Fireworks?
[laughter]
Yer man just crapped himself.
They all think it's hilarious.
Thought a boom just went off.
Oh.
Okay.
Very nice. Thank you.
This chicken, yeah?
Oh thank you very much. It's delicious.
This is our seconds. Amazing.
Amazing hospitality by these wonderful people.
Fantastic.
Mmm.
Hello. Oh, he's shy.
He's shy. He's hiding.
Hello. Smile.
Awww.
You hiding from me?
Oh hello.
I ate most of it.
I ate the most important parts. The protein parts.
Hehe.
While I'm holding Dale's camera, Dale is having a chat with some men over there.
Ah, speak yeah.
Only one thing he can say in Tamil is "I want food."
What can you say in Tamil? Say.
Saparinga or something, right?
I can say that. [laughter]
I just know how to say food or something in Tamil.
Well, he's making fun of me now.
Dale is making fun of me, over here,
in front of all these people. Thank you Dale.
They thing it's funny, the only thing you can say in Tamil
is "Give me food." and you got food.
[laughter]
Spot on.
Nailed it.
Okay, so there's the happy couple there.
Everybody's walking up and shaking their hands.
She's beautiful, isn't she? And the guy, dapper.
The dapper don there.
Hello.
The guy's got like a smile on his face. He's like
"What are these guys doing at my wedding?"
[laughter]
We're vlogging mate. We're vlogging your wedding.
[laughter]
Ah. Good.
Ah.
So apparently the ceremony's over.
So they had the ceremony, then they ate lunch
and now they're coming back to take photos.
So that's what's happening just now.
[laughter]
I reckon, we gotta get a photo, right?
We've gotta get a photo with them?
[laughter] Do you want? I don't mind.
I reckon it won't be too cheeky to ask.
I don't know.
Everyone else is getting a photo. Why not us?
Let's congratulate them.
You think he'll take a photo with us?
Yeah, yeah. No? Yeah? Really?
Okay, I want to say hi.
Congratulations.
Congratulations. We were just passing. We seen you had your wedding.
You look absolutely beautiful,
both of you.
You both look amazing. Really good.
Yeah, you look great.
Can we take a photo with you?
Photo, photo?
Yes? We can take photo?
Oh, very good. Thank you.
Oh, here we go.
We have a photo, with this newly married couple.
Fantastic. Okay.
Okay, fantastic. Thank you.
Have an amazing life together. Oh.
Good. See you.
Okay.
See you guys. See you. Nice to see you.
Okay.
So everyone at that wedding was very nice and friendly to us,
inviting us in for food and stuff, but then
the bride and the groom, they kinda looked a bit miffed.
They kinda looked a bit like "what the heck's going on here?"
"Who are these two sweaty tourists wearing shorts and t-shirt at our wedding?"
"and why do they want to take a photo with us?"
The guy kinda had like this Hide the Pain Harold, you know the guy from the meme?
The guy that's smiling but he looks like he's in pain.
He kinda had that kinda smile on his face.
But never mind. It's a fun wee adventure, wasn't it?
A Tamil wedding in rural Jaffna.