AHMEDABAD: An Indian woman, despairing over her lover's accidental death when he fell down a well soon after their engagement, insisted on ceremonially marrying his corpse just minutes before the cremation.

"It was for just few minutes the girl was dressed as a bride and then as a widow," KM Kapadia, a police officer in the town of Anand in western Gujarat state, said.

Wedding attendees sat the corpse up by a fire, the traditional centre of Hindu wedding ceremonies, and chanted some marriage prayers before cremating the body, police said.

"The girl refused to give away the body of her lover for the cremation till she tied the knot with him," Kapadia said.

The bride's parents opposed the marriage but later attended the wedding ceremony and gave their 22-year-old daughter Tulsi Devipujak clothes and utensils as gifts, according to the Hindu tradition.

Goosey's Gabbings...

Witnesses to the wedding stated that the song played throughout the ceremony was "Hunka Hunka Burning Love".

I have a silly question here. Doesn't the groom have to say "I do" in order to be married? Am I missing something here?

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