Music is probably the best form of emotional expression. No wonder then it plays a vital role in a marriage. In a culturally hybrid society like ours, music aptly takes on the onus of expressing the joys and sorrows of the occasion and lives up to the responsibility. As religion is such an integral part of a marriage it is but natural that the accompanying music hold more than just strains of religious sentiment. In Sikh weddings, the wedding ceremony or the anand karaj begins with kirtans (the singing of hymns by ragis – musicians). Christian weddings too are accompanied with hymn-singing that makes the occasion all the more spiritual. The Syrian Christians sing songs in eight different notes and their rites are deeply musical and lyrical. Talking of singing hymns, the Bohri community, within Islam, is another community that holds special functions during a wedding (majlis for women and darees for men) to come together for singing hymns.