You're seeing the wedding pics here first. Eastern Mosaic on SABC2 just had an insert on the upcoming soapie wedding between Rajesh Kumar (Jack Devnarain) and Priyanka Naicker (Leeanda Reddy) of Isidingo on SABC3 - and here's the goss and the first pictures from screengrabs I just made!A popular honeydew garden was chosen as the location for the traditional Hindu wedding. The ceremony is Hindi itself, and a combination between a South Indian and a North Indian wedding. The wedding is Hindi, since Rajesh is Hindu and it's his family arranging and paying for it. Priya in her beautiful red sari is dressed as Tamil because she is Tamil.
Leaanda actually wrote the wedding story and scripted the wedding scenes. She and Julie from Isidingo's wardrobe department went shopping for the red wedding dress. ''I love red, she loves red, and red is so Indian bridal,'' she says. ''So we found this and our breath was taken away.''
In the pictures you can see the happy couple together in their bridal outfits (although, are they really happy?). The pictures show everything from the wedding platform, the wedding procession, even the table arrangements of the beautiful spring garden wedding.
''We've told the stories of different cultures. We've had white wedings, we've had a traditional wedding with Letti and Vusi and not it was time to do another version,'' says Pumla Hopa, executive director of Isidingo. ''So we decided to hook these two up.''
''We've always had very strong stories,'' says Isidingo director Johnny Barbuzano who directed the wedding day episode in which Rajesh finally gets married after seven years on the show.
''The wedding is important in terms of the character finally being married,'' says Jack.
''Typically Rajesh sees his cue when a woman needs help and here is Priya who is looking for someone to take care of her and take charge.'' But he warns: ''Soap marriages don't last too long in soapie land. . .''
You can catch the Isidingo wedding on Monday 21 September on SABC3 at 18:30 and Tuesday 22 September on SABC3 at 17:45.
