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INTERVIEW:Irish fashion designer Joanne Hynes donned traditional Indian wedding garb to marry Kamal Chana in New Delhi, writes DEIRDRE MCQUILLAN

‘IT WAS REALLY magical,” sighs fashion designer Joanne Hynes, recalling her wedding to her Indian beau Kamal Chana in New Delhi earlier this year. In particular, she remembers the special moment when the couple walked together to the gurdwara or temple for the formal ceremony. “You stop at every house and drums are beating and men are singing of love.” A European bride is a rare sight in the city, says Hynes, and everybody assumed she was American. “We didn’t really want a big production, but for his family, a traditional Sikh wedding, which is a week-long affair, was really important.” More than 300 guests, the majority of them the groom’s relatives and friends, along with Hynes’s parents and a couple of family members from Galway, attended the celebrations.