Scottish politician Martyn Day and his wife, Nidhin Chand, remarried in a traditional Hindu ceremony at the Guruvayur Temple in Kerala, India [1].
The event highlights the blending of Scottish and Indian cultural traditions within a high-profile political marriage. It also underscores the personal significance of religious rituals in cross-cultural unions.
Day and Chand first married in the UK in 2016 [2]. This second ceremony took place 10 years after that initial wedding [2]. The couple chose the Guruvayur Temple to complete the marriage rituals, a request that Chand had long held [3].
The celebration included family members, including Chand's son, Vedik Shankar, who was 22 years old at the time of the ceremony [3]. The event was conducted according to traditional temple customs in the Kerala region.
While the couple has been legally wed for a decade, the return to India served to honor the heritage of Chand, who was born in Kerala [1]. The ceremony marks a symbolic completion of their union through the lens of Hindu tradition.
“Scottish politician Martyn Day and his wife, Nidhin Chand, remarried in a traditional Hindu ceremony.”
This ceremony represents a symbolic reconciliation of legal and cultural marriage standards. By returning to Kerala to perform traditional rituals a decade after their legal union, the couple demonstrates how modern international marriages often navigate the tension between civil law and ancestral religious expectations.
