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Thrissur: A 28-year-old Australian youth, Timothy Alfred Freame, and Keralite bride Smitha Elizabeth tied knots at the Martha Mariam Church here in a traditional Syrian Christian wedding today. Metropolitan of the Chaldean Syrian Church of East, Mar Aprem, presidded over the wedding ceremony after a high in mass English. Over 30 persons from Austrlia, including the bridegroom's parents attended the wedding. A rousing reception was accorded the groom's party with caprisoned
elephants and 'panchavadyam' (ensemble of drums, pipes and cymbals), giving the occasion a touch of Kerala's cultural traditions. Timothy, who was a Catholic, recently converted to the Chaldean Syrian Church, one of the oldest Christian communities in Kerala which follows oriental traditions and rituals. During a chat with guests after the wedding,Timothy said recent attacks on Indians in Australia had nothing to do with ethnic conflict which were only law and order problems. The bride's father Soman Chakola,an Engineer, has been working in Melbourne since 1990 where his daughter was studying. Timothy was known to her since their school days and they are now working in different companies in Melbourne (Australia), he said. Groom's mother Patricia said they she and her husband had no objection to their son marrying a girl from Kerala. 'we find no problem if they lead a happy and Jovial married life' she said.
The girl's father said though wedding was solemnised here, it would be legally registered in Australia as groom and bride were Australian citizens. Religious marriages are very rare in Australia where most of the weddings were just registered, he said. Timothy said they would be leaving for Australia in October after their honeymoon in Kerala and Rajasthan.
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elephants and 'panchavadyam' (ensemble of drums, pipes and cymbals), giving the occasion a touch of Kerala's cultural traditions. Timothy, who was a Catholic, recently converted to the Chaldean Syrian Church, one of the oldest Christian communities in Kerala which follows oriental traditions and rituals. During a chat with guests after the wedding,Timothy said recent attacks on Indians in Australia had nothing to do with ethnic conflict which were only law and order problems. The bride's father Soman Chakola,an Engineer, has been working in Melbourne since 1990 where his daughter was studying. Timothy was known to her since their school days and they are now working in different companies in Melbourne (Australia), he said. Groom's mother Patricia said they she and her husband had no objection to their son marrying a girl from Kerala. 'we find no problem if they lead a happy and Jovial married life' she said.
The girl's father said though wedding was solemnised here, it would be legally registered in Australia as groom and bride were Australian citizens. Religious marriages are very rare in Australia where most of the weddings were just registered, he said. Timothy said they would be leaving for Australia in October after their honeymoon in Kerala and Rajasthan.
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